$700!??

22Oct08

via AlleyInsider

BerryReporter.com sends photos of what purports to be a Best Buy stocking computer showing pricing for the Research in Motion (RIMM) BlackBerry Storm iPhone killer of $699.99. Let’s hope they’re joking. (Research in Motion, Best Buy, BerryReporter–any or all of them.)

The Storm also also was apparently supposed to have gone on sale on October 16.  Oops.

BerryReporter.com:

Yesterday, BGR posted what seemed to be a paper copy of a Best Buy RSS screen showing the release date of the BlackBerry Storm.  Today we have for you the actual screen shot of the release date and the price screen thanks to the Berry Reporter Minions!  There have been few reports on speculated prices for the Storm and I guess you could still call this half confirmed, but this is as hard of evidence as we have so far.  The price as you can see is $699.99 which is close Best Buy’s $679.99 pricing of the BlackBerry Bold, which is just $20 more.  As I explained on the price screen of the Pearl Flip 8220 the circled part of the image that says Perf Code: E means that they will carry the phone and that it is no a hoax.  This $700 price tag is about what I thought the phone would cost.  So all you Verizon people that keep asking me the pricing on the Storm, here it is and it is probably not as pretty as you thought.  Let’s just hope you are eligible for an upgrade (and who knows what that price will be).

On another note, since the Bold release date got pushed back once again to supposedly Oct. 27th, the Oct 26th Best Buy release date probably won’t happen.  Sorry guys.

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