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The Verizon BlackBerry Storm is burning up the intertubes with haters and enthusiasts championing their position on the first BlackBerry handset to sport a touchscreen - a “SurePress” touchscreen, no less. With all the hype surrounding the BlackBerry Storm, Verizon is no doubt having a hard time keeping up with demand at the official $199 price point.

But, what if the BlackBerry Storm was priced at $99? Surely, the Storm would fly off proverbial shelves like canned foods on the eve of Y2K.

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More AT&T news today… The company’s U-verse TV service will begin offering Internet speeds of up to 18 Mbps on Nov. 9. 

The OS hasn’t change that much, but this doc provides all the key points about Verizon’s imminent BlackBerry Storm. One of the key tidbits here is around page 38, which shows off Desktop Manager 4.7, which will be the PC-side software for the BlackBerry Storm. Confirmed therein is the Rhapsody support tied in with Verizon’s V CAST music service. This was rumoured a long time ago, but we hadn’t heard much of it since… we’ll have to see it in action here at the BlackBerry Developer Conference to see

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Verizon noted today that it is indeed moving forward with plans to acquire Alltel for $28.1 Billion US Dollars. That’s a lot of dough. The deal would make Verizon the largest wireless carrier in the US. A spokesperson for the company has noted that they hope to close this deal before the end of the year. Plans are to keep moving forward on this deal, despite the current financial crisis going on in the US.

Vodafone and Verizon have been revving their motors to get the first touchscreen BlackBerry out the door, and this video from a presentation just goes to show that the BlackBerry Storm is ready for primetime. The presentation was done in Italy, marking one more spot in Europe that Vodafone will be offering the BlackBerry 9500. What do you guys think? Overhyped, or a solid contender to the iPhone?

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Lots of buzz today on some exciting news in the BlackBerry world. Could it be that a new touchscreen Berry, the BlackBerry Storm will be released? It appears that way. Rumors have it that the Storm will be announced this Monday, September the 15th… and sales of the new device are currently scheduled to go green on November 1st. Any wagers if they’ll actually make that date?

So, it looks like the BlackBerry Storm, you know, the touchscreen BlackBerry from Verizon that we thought would be called the BlackBerry Thunder, is really trying to make that October 13th launch that we heard about a few weeks ago.

Engadget mobile has gotten there hands on a Verizon BlackBerry Storm Box template. We can only gather that if boxes for a new BlackBerry are starting to appear on the internet, live pictures of the devices they contain should be soon to follow.

Verizon is teaming with Motorola to launch two new phones Blaze ZN4 and Rapture VU30 in next couple weeks. Blaze ZN4 shares interesting concept with transparent cover and touch screen underneath. Unfortunately there are no official specifications. Second model, Rapture VU30 is another glossy flip phone that will probably hit the stores on September 9th while Blaze ZN4 is expected by the end of September.

ESPN and MediaFLO USA have announced that they will bring NASCAR live to the users of AT&T’s and Verizon Wireless’ mobile TV services.

Under the agreement, MediaFLO USA and ESPN will air live race coverage of the NASCAR Nationwide Series, as well as six Sprint Cup Series races on ESPN Mobile TV.

Upcoming Sprint Cup races include (all times Eastern on ESPN Mobile TV):

CDMA versions of the HTC Diamond and Touch Pro are reportedly due to land at both Sprint and Verizon … [visit site to read more]

With the acquisition of Alltel, it looks like Verizon is set to bring the same My Circle goodness to its business users. Verizon is rolling out its own free-calling circle plan, of sorts, for subscribers of the No. 2 US wireless carrier's Verizon Freedom for Business unlimited long-distance plan.

Verizon announced that they will roll out a 50Mbps down/20Mbps up service in all 16 of the states in which FIOS is available. It will run you $140/mo. Wow, 50Mbps is very tempting, and it seems that we’ve come a long way from the days when we needed much more bandwidth to fulfill the requirements of all the new Net-based services. I wonder if 50Mbps is a tad bit overkill.

Now if they would only offer it in my neighborhood (in CA), I could find out personally!

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Those of you on Verizon may have been wondering when you will finally get the popular Palm Centro; as of 5:30am (PST) this morning, the wait is over. Verizon customers will even get their choice of an exclusive color - cobalt blue.

If you want to know more, then just keep reading…

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