Distant Thunder?

News breaking today...well, rumor at least, that the BlackBerry Thunder is scheduled to be released on October 8th! The rumor included that it will include a 3.2 megapixel camera, micro SD slot and music downloads via Rhapsody. Lord knows that Verizon can't wait to start pushing this on everyone as a hopeful iPhone killer. Only time will tell.

Read all about it here.

A stormy fall?

Once again, the Boy Genius Report website is first with big news regarding the iPhone-esq offering from BlackBerry code named Thunder. They are reporting that there will be a HUGE marketing push in September followed by a mid-October release on Verizon. Hopefully that timetable holds and hopefully they fix some of the problems that had been earlier reported with the device. Only time will tell! Stay tuned!

And if you haven't checked out BGR, it's worth adding it to your RSS feeds.

BGR gives Thunder a FAIL

The "Boy Genius Report" site today came out with some new information regarding BlackBerry Thunder. You can read all about it here, but from what it sounds like, it doesn't look good for the device any time soon.

I really hope BlackBerry is able to pull it together quickly. I'm beginning to think that RIM is putting out devices too fast as of late without fully testing them like they had done on the earlier, more reliable models. As we have been rolling out more and more BlackBerry's at work, I'm seeing more and more having problems almost similar to what I had seen in the later days of Palm Treo's we used to have. For a while, we saw ALL kinds of quality problems with them.

Move over iPhone. Get ready for the Thunder!

The fine folks over at BlackBerrySync.com have gotten there hands on some nice shots and new information of the newest touch-screen device soon to enter the iPhone dominated marketplace. The BlackBerry 9500, aka Thunder, is set to hit the marketplace sometime in the future and if everything I've ready about it is true it will give the iPhone a run for the money. Now, I understand why the iPhone is so sexy. I get it. But I still have a REALLY hard time thinking that it has anyplace in a corporate environment. The security just isn't there for my taste. If a BlackBerry is stolen or missing, you can send the remote kill command and the data will be erased if the radio is still active. If an iPhone goes missing, well, good luck! Plus, there is no set infrastructure yet available that has the same ease of use as a BES server.
Am I looking forward to Thunder? You betcha!
Am I going to still be saving my pennies for a while to get the little brother of the iPhone, the iPod Touch? An affirmative on that as well, too!