On Thursday, Verizon made public the date and final prices for their version of the BlackBerry Storm. Initially announced for more than a month, the first touch screen phone with RIM will be available Nov. 21 through the supplier, which has the same price of 200 dollars that the contract for the iPhone Apple ATandT after the repayment of 50 dollars to also free phones there are difference in cost is an exchange when taking into account that does not have 8GB of storage and a screen multitactil in favor of a 3.2 megapixel camera with video capture, a GSM and CDMA radio, microSDHC storage and a touch screen that makes click to give you physical feedback.
A price equal to suggest that there are heavy subsidies on the BlackBerry, free phones which is very close to the iPhone in hardware and thus bears the same risk of softening the benefits to push Verizon to absorb much of the price of the phone in exchange for lucrative clients , They need to subscribe to a data plan along with a voice plan and therefore pay the supplier more each month.
It is alleged by some sources that forced Verizon to deliberately not have WiFi in the Storm and could have done whcih you can get when you get a to prevent subscribers from using a single voice or data plan inexpensive to avoid the company’s 3G network. Nor has the three bands of 3G iPhone in what is believed to be a maneuver to prevent customers from changing the Storm to ATandT.
Source: Electronics