RIM launches Trade Up program; up to $120 for your old BlackBerry

Verizon continues to offer the best value in our plans and phones that we provide the consumer. Like DROID, we offer choice and competition, which is great for the consumer. Please remember that DROID DOES and always will DOES.

LOL DROID DOES and always will DOES is that proper ?

What is funny is only RIM people with real devices seem to be still on. The people with their toys went to bed along time ago! This is what it is like to be connected. Join the winning team! #TeamBlackBerry!

How about this instead. Go out and buy a $500 device because your still on contract and your plastic toy broke. Or because this model has a G in the name. What thanks do you get, oh wait that’s right your an Apple user you get over priced hardware and not even a pat on the back plus forced to by the next model when this one breaks. Its not a total loss though you can take your new charm bracelet to parties and show friends how many useless trinkets you have on it! Sorry not charm bracelet I mean iPhone, I get the 2 confused all the time because they are the same.

Dude, put down the dutchie and step away from the Hookah. It’ll be okay.

WTF are you talking about? Again another person that has nothing to add no real sense of a conversation but throws out stoner words hoping they will sound cool and a get a like! Look at my likes look at yours! Someone knows what they are talking about someone doesn’t!

Well at least the iphone is a real smartphone. The turdberry is nothing but a gloried 2 way pager.

You have never used one then I am assuming because it does everything your iPhone does with less games. Tell me one thing it cannot do that your iPhone can that is a requirement of a smart phone?

Exactly people just like to bug the king of the castle when they come up with good ideas first. If Apple though of it they would be humanitarians but because its RIM were desperate. Go figure!

I agree QNX please this is great! A company that want to help is awesome. Yeah RIM can make a buck but if you can do good and make a buck its a win win situation!

Exactly the phone that never changes!

well I just want a phone that doesnt freeze when trying to use more than one app, which my Storm 2 has consistently done. Sometimes it also just doesn’t work, it must crash 10 times a day too, I’m done with Blackberry as a personal phone, I will use one for work though

I get you there are some problems but don’t think only RIM has these problems. I have friends with Android, iPhone all of them and they want to kill the device. It does not matter what company. RIM with the Storm lineup has made some mistakes and to not admit that would be silly, but they have also learned for it. Something RIM does is constantly testing the water to see what’s next! IPhone is the only other real hardware manufacturer here other then RIM and they just stay the same. They don’t experiment like RIM does. Unless you look at stuff like their antenna I see that as Apple finally taking a risk and taking one on the chin for the future of technology. To say because RIM fails is why they are going down is just silly. Look at war and the front line people who give their lives so people behind them can win the war. Did those people fail at their job because they died? No they made a path for others. RIM does this all the time they take one fore the team but because they failed and the industry moved forward because of their research… RIM didn’t fail they carved a path. I tease my iPhone friends about the antenna and they do to me about the Storm. But Apple learned and so did everyone else from this mistake. People just don’t see this and tease RIM I can take it but I also put a few in their place!

RIM employee?

No its called being educated! You have to read and understand something before you open your mouth! If people actually did that they would have something to say that is intelligent and would add to the conversation. It drives mr bananas how people have no clue about stuff they say and they think they know something. They don’t and an educated smart person is going to put them in their place just like the real world!

No, they are trying everything under the sun to keep them. Desperate act of a desperate company.

Ohh I get it so failing companies want hardware back and give people money???? Seriously????

Typical RIMtard. Defending a dying platform to the end.

Typical troll has no evidence has no real input just jumps in the room and yells RIM sucks! Why don’t you explain using real facts why RIM is dead yet they are still 100% alive? It because you can’t you don’t know anything other then what you have been told. I will go head to head with anyone with real facts not just opinions! But no one ever seems to know anything when it comes to real facts!

No native exchange support, no imap support, apps that look like they were made for DOS, lackluster hardware, battery pulls, long bootups. I could go on.

“No native exchange support” – BlackBerry Internet Service BIS out of the box support every single mail server type including Exchange. This is not software on the phone it is a server service provide to all BlackBerry users with a data plan.

“No IMAP support” – have a look again, might not be the same as your client but BIS supports IMAP

“apps that look like they were made for DOS, lackluster hardware” – your opinion they work just fine for me!

“battery pulls” – so does every one else. Iphone will freeze all the time. Plus hard to compare an OS that is multi tasking to one that is only doing a thing at a time.

“long bootups” I will give Apple this one, depending on model can take 30ish seconds. But it also comes at an expense. battery life, mainly because you have to run a GHz proc. RIM could boot a phone that fast too but they care about battery life. The set the phone up so you can load apps faster etc. Same as your PC with half load a program so it launches quicker.

So there is nothing so far that the iPhone can do the BlackBerry can’t? Any more?

What can BB do with its 2mp camera, 240×240 screen, its 400mhz processor and 64k of memory that any new high powered Android or iPhone can’t? BB morons live in 2003. BBM is replicated by any number of apps. You know, those “fart machines”?

A 5MP camera, 480×360 screen and can do everything the iPhone can do for longer and with half the processing power! And was it not Steve Job that said “its not the number of apps but the quality of the apps” how the tables have turned

Oh sorry forgot the 512 MB of RAM plus SD card support plus 626MHz processor BTW as I mentioned in other posts just because you have 512MB means nothing I have tons of apps on my Torch with plenty of free space. Were not an iPhone or Android were we’re a BlackBerry and things are not about one number is higher then another so its better its about what can we do to make it better. Go look at MP on a camera a 20MP means nothing if hardware supporting it is useless.

Looks like the BB is for cowboys, from the 19th century.

yeeee hawwwww LOL wanna mustache ride? 5 cents!!! Get a long little doggy! I love that picture! People so don’t get it!

Funny thing is this 19th century cowboy knows more then most of you 21st century cowgirls!

If you don’t want to give yourself as a shill for RIM, don’t post more than 3 times under a topic.

I need to because people are uneducated either that they are just trolling for a rise out of someone. I think BGR need a good dose of someone who is going to tell them the truth and say it like it is! The real truth not opinions or junk troll comments! I am asking people to back up their comments and funny enough no one ever can!

LOL so true no one has anything to back up a thing they say. What I find mind blowing is Apple does look kind of the same through all their models never changing the initial design. Then there is the other end where Android manufacturer had over 75 different models last year! So you have the extreme at both ends and then RIM in the middle.

I agree. I still cant get this Apple hype shit. 300000 apps, of what, mostly games and bull shit. What Apple does to make they customers have to buy apps is also laughable. Don’t put in flash but oh download a app that will help you watch a clip. Like the Iphone one, Apple put no copy and paste, then by the third phone i think you got copy and paste. That could have been put in from day one but Apple love to leave room to add stuff and make it seem like you are really getting a new software upgrade. Take the Ipad, we all know that could have gotten front and back cameras from the start. The technology is there, yet it has to come out in the Ipad 2. Why? Apple love to hold back and leave room for upgrade so it can look like they bring something new to the table each year. Its amazing consumers are short changed on the Ipad but call it the best thing since slice bread came around. Why do people feel the need to buy an Apple product knowing stuff is left out, only to be put in a few month later. Bet anyone on this blog that if Apple was second to market with a tablet, it would have gotten cameras straight out the gate. What is scary is that its working, people now feel that they have to spend 1000 on apps that soon enough they will stop using. People also feel they can’t function without apps, like some how a phone has to have 2000 apps to get us through the day. World of followers and a few thinkers my grandmother often say.