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• Verizon BlackBerry Storm May Finally Get An Update
• BlackBerry Storm 2 Not Coming Until Late Fall At The Earliest
• Should Google And RIM Collaborate On A Next-Gen Android Powered BlackBerry?

Verizon BlackBerry Storm May Finally Get An Update Posted: 28 May 2009 10:15 PM PDT Word on the street is that the Verizon BlackBerry Storm will receive an official software update, BlackBerry OS 4.7.0.203, this coming Sunday, May 31st. I’ve got just 4 words… It’s about frigging time!

BlackBerry Storm 2 Not Coming Until Late Fall At The Earliest Posted: 28 May 2009 11:37 AM PDT There had been rumors floating around that the BlackBerry Storm 2 could come out as early as this month and that it would definitely be out by the end of June, however those dreams have been dashed as Lowell McAdams, the top executive for the venture of Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc, officially stated in a webcast earlier today that the BlackBerry Storm 2 would come out on Verizon in about 6 months. This pushes a release of the the next touch screen only BlackBerry to a late Fall if not early Winter release at the earliest. I just hope that Verizon certifies an OS update for the original BlackBerry Storm before then… [Source]

Should Google And RIM Collaborate On A Next-Gen Android Powered BlackBerry? Posted: 28 May 2009 11:06 AM PDT I just read an interesting post over on ZDNet how a Google Android powered BlackBerry would be the ‘Perfect Storm‘, pun intended. I’ve actually thought for a while that RIM should create a device that runs Android. A "Perfect Storm": The Linux-based Android OS, and tight integration with Google's web services, running on BlackBerry hardware and connected to RIM's corporate messaging/calendar syncing infrastructure would be an unstoppable mobile enterprise device platform that not even Apple's iPhone, Windows Mobile or Palm webOS could dare to challenge. But could the marriage ever be consummated? Even before I thought that Google and RIM should get together on a device that runs Android I thought that RIM should have bought Palm when they were on the cheap and developed their WebOS as the next BlackBerry OS. I don’t think, for most BlackBerry users, the BlackBerry OS is what draws them to the device. RIM, with an exception or two, puts out quality hardware that just works and works well for what you use it for. Advances in the OS have been long in the tooth, however, and I wonder if it is time to take some of the great features of the BlackBerry OS and run them securely on an next-gen mobile OS like Android. What do you think?