SAVE $460.00 - BlackBerry Storm 9530 Phone, Black (Verizon Wireless) $39.99

Updated OS The 9530 did have some serious problems when it was first released. However, it runs great with OS 4.7...and even better with OS 5.0 I love my Storm and recommend it very strongly. Rating: 5 (MJC, 2009-12-11) Product reviewed: BlackBerry Storm 9530 Phone, Black (Verizon Wireless)

Storm? More like Katrina. I saw the commercials for the Storm2 and decided I had to have this phone (yep I'm a sucker for cool effects). So I called Verizon and asked about it. The Tele-Sales rep said to me why not just get the original storm, it now has the same OS but the only real difference is that the original storm doesn't have wi-fi. I don't use wi-fi anyhow so the deal sounded good as the phone was only 49.95 with a 2 year contract. I got the phone and couldn't have been more disappointed. The click keyboard is a hassle to use. It shouldn't take me 30 seconds to dial a number. Most of the apps cost extra money per month. The web browser didn't even work. The media player is fair and I have to say the phone is LOUD! When the phone goes from normal to landscape it takes too long. Loading music is a chore, the software convoluted and it just plain bad design. It should not take me 3 weeks to learn how to use a phone. I have had it under 30 days so I am turning it in and probably getting a Motorola Droid A855 Phone (Verizon Wireless) or Samsung Rogue SCH-U960 Phone, Black (Verizon Wireless). Stay away from this piece of junk. Rating: 2 (T. Moss, 2009-11-19) Product reviewed: BlackBerry Storm 9530 Phone, Black (Verizon Wireless)

I like it better than -roid! I've had my Storm for a year now, and have been debating whether to upgrade to the new Storm2 or the Motorola Droid. I had the opportunity to play with both phones, and I can confidently say that the Storm is the true winner! I like the fact that you can touch the screen but need to actually "click" down on the screen to open an app --whereas on the droid it opened whatever my fingers accidentally touched, and had stuff opening all over the place just from handling the phone! The touch keypad is much more accurate (and I had less mistakes) on the Storm than on the droid. I also like that the Storm, now a year after its release, has become MUCH more stable due to consistent operating system upgrades. The new OS is much faster and more reliable. The camera and video camera work great, I have 16GB of photos & songs on the media card - which play as good as (if not better than) an ipod, there are TONS of apps and games, and the Bluetooth sync'd to my car is awesome! I also like how everything is organized much better, and easier to find (in logical places and menus)- which I could not find in the droid. I also use my Storm as an MP3 player and a radio when outside thanks to the Slacker Radio app and my Bluetooth headphone! Apps that I have installed on my Storm are: a GPS app that is very cool and works w/ the Blackberry Maps; a Level app that turns the Storm into a level tool; a Flashlight app to use the phone as a flashlight; a task reminder app; Bartender app; Photo paint app; a Travel/Pedometer app; Weather app; Unit convert app; YouTube, and of course Facebook. In playing with the new Storm2, the only thing I can say is it is a little bit faster, has more app memory than the Storm1, and has wi-fi. I believe that the Storm2 with wi-fi will really speed up the browser. I think I will be upgrading to the new Storm2 rather than the flakey droid that I had the opportunity to play with. If you want the best, go with the Storm!!! Rating: 5 (Hummingbirds, 2009-11-16) Product reviewed: BlackBerry Storm 9530 Phone, Black (Verizon Wireless)

VERIZON SUPPORTS THE RADICAL RIGHT VERIZON IS A KEY CORPORATE SUPPORTER OF EXTREME RIGHT WING PAC 'FREEDOMWORKS,' BACKERS OF OF THE RADICAL RIGHT WING TEA PARTIES. IF YOU BUY THIS PRODUCT YOU ARE GIVING FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE ALLIES OF GLENN BECK, RUSH LIMBAUGH, AND SARAH PALIN. BOYCOTT VERIZON! Rating: 2 (trastevere, 2009-11-08) Product reviewed: BlackBerry Storm 9530 Phone, Black (Verizon Wireless)

Worst phone I've ever owned I would give it 0.5 stars if allowed. I've gone through 3 of these Storms already because it stops working so often (usually the buttons). But beyond that, the software and touch screen are terrible. RIM rushed this half-baked junkpiece out for show. They wanted a "touchscreen smartphone" on the market so the business briefs would say that and investors would think "OK, they're competing with Apple." But scratch the surface and there's nothing substantial to this product at all. The Storm truly is the worst, most frustrating, and least trustworthy phone I've ever owned. At times it's worth less than the cheap plastic it's made of. I've wanted to break it in half, stomp the living daylights out of it, and toss it in the deepest hole I could find. OK now that I've vented, let me give you some details. You know how you want a device that just works? Well this one just doesn't work. Its menus are confusing, redundant, and annoying. It has to pause and think about requests. It sometimes pauses for no reason at all, preventing you from making a call or sending a text or what have you. Another problem: select a contact that has multiple phone numbers. Press the phone button to make a call, right? Seems straightforward. Not for the Storm. Instead of then asking WHICH of the multiple phone numbers you want to call, it dumbly goes to the plain phone app and gives you no phone number options at all (short of typing the number in yourself)! The keyboard is OK, but just OK. Nothing great, and sometimes frustrating because you can't actually see what key your (OK, my) chubby finger is depressing. Thus many typos. It also pauses while your typing, too, so you can't enter text smoothly. The camera is atrociously slow, grainy, and dark. I infrequently get a decent picture that I'd like to save or share to my desktop, but too bad the interface software doesn't work (see below). So I end up emailing pics to myself. Not elegant. The interface is kludgy, non-intuitive, and again slow. ARGH! The software for linking to your computer is utterly worthless. Not only does it not work (slow, crashes, freezes 90% of the time), it is again nonintuitive and of near-zero utility. The software engineers should be ashamed of themselves for letting this get out of the gate. If I weren't locked into a long term contract, I would have dumped this device in favor of another BlackBerry (NOT the Storm 2, mind) or the iPhone. Heck I might do that just to save myself from going postal with this thing. Save yourself the heartache and look elsewhere, folks. Rating: 1 (briw, 2009-10-30) Product reviewed: BlackBerry Storm 9530 Phone, Black (Verizon Wireless)