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Blackberry Storm arrives in the Philippines

Research in Motion (RIM) announced today the availability of the new touchscreen Blackberry Storm in the Philippines. The Storm is RIM’s first foray into touchscreen handsets, obviously aimed at the iPhone 3G market.


RIM announced the Blackberry Storm and partnered with Smart Communications and Globe Telecom on postpaid plans.

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The Storm is expected to be available from Smart in June. Pricing information and pre-orders are available through the respective Relationship Managers and Account Managers of the Corporate Business and Small and Medium Enterprise Groups, starting from free with the Plan 3500.

This will also be made available for personal subscriptions through the Wireless Consumer and Infinity Groups.

On the other hand, Globe Telecom also announced new Blackberry Personal Postpaid Plans starting today, including the Blackberry Storm handset:

Globe’s Personal BlackBerry Plans are available at Plan 700 for 5 MB of data, which is approximately 55 emails per day. The Plan 850 gives subscriber 8 MB of data for approximately 90 emails per day. The Plan 1100 allows 10 MB of data so its user gets approximately 115 emails per day. Number of emails per day is based on estimated emails using a BlackBerry handset. egular mobile Internet browsing rates of P0.15 per KB apply in excess of the plan.

See full specs of the Blackberry Storm here.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

64 Responses

  1. Avatar for Anne Marie Laqui Anne Marie Laqui says:

    does anyone know a repair center for blackberry storm 2? desperately in need to fix my handset. brought it to greenhills but i can’t trust them to fix it… please email me asap

  2. Avatar for John John says:

    Be aware, if you get your BB through a plan with Smart, I got mine with a Infinity Plan, supposed to be the best they can offer???, mine require work even while in warranty, then smart will not help, they say, buy a new phone, or, it will take 6 months for warranty repair and no replacement while its away!!!!
    Smart are full of shit when it comes to warranty, I also had a Sony Ericson, with a faulty screen, they had it for 5 weeks, came back exactly the same, not repaired.
    Smart connections are also bad with BB, always losing the signal, and very difficult to report faults.
    Cannot comment on Globe or Sun, but Smart??? full of shit service. Never again.

  3. Avatar for arnold arnold says:

    for those with golden heart and rich person, please give me gift blackberry phone..its my birthday

  4. Avatar for Mobile_Unlocker Mobile_Unlocker says:

    @pj @jane @lexer @PHIL MARC LABRAMONTE

    Blackberry bought from the States or other network provider/country can be used in the Phils. or even any other countries, it just need unlocking
    even prepaid or Pay As You Go mobile phones needs to be unlocked

    contact me for BB unlock/openline
    +6392638*****
    mobileunlo****@****.***

  5. Avatar for cherie cherie says:

    i have a blackberry phone curve 8520…at first 3 days after i got it its actually fine i used the internet everything but after 3 days my internet service is gone and it wont let me to sign in on everything..very disappointing..and i cant find there service center here in the Philippines even the Smart wireless center cant fixed it..im really pissed off of with this phone…

  6. Avatar for Jonha @ Happiness Jonha @ Happiness says:

    I have never been too techy with phones unlike sa pagkahilig ko sa laptop, kasi for one hindi naman ako nagkakapera sa phone, ako lang gumagastos. Pero ngayon I need to buy a phone na may web browser, pwede kong i hack ang internet connection (you, ang illegal connection, haha) tapos gusto ko din na makapagYM, GTalk with my clients, so ano bang pinakamura na phone na simple lang ang features at hindi ganun ka mahal? I would stick with my jurassic phone kaso I think I need to upgrade because I would be using Google Voice. Ak

  7. Avatar for Salome Salome says:

    Hi Miamiko

    You should check Blackberryzuela.com , they are the most reliable seller of blackberry mobile phones in the Philippines…I got a curve from them…

    I think they are directly authorized by RIM

    check it out!

  8. Avatar for miamiko miamiko says:

    anybody know where to buy storm2 9550 here in manila?

  9. Avatar for ppopex ppopex says:

    i can’t believe this, you’re just being dumped with a smartphone with lots of issues! nobody should buy a storm because storm 2 is already in the market.

  10. Avatar for Dah! Dah! says:

    Better buy from the official distributor. They can provide you with official BlackBerry warranty and the AirTime Loader pre-installed. Just look for the ATL sticker on the box.

  11. Avatar for Jaq Jaq says:

    I’ve found a supplier for genuine openline blackberry in the Philippines. They appear on sulit and ebay.ph.

    I called them and asked if they can provide new units and told me they only sell blackberry mobile phones and accesories.

    Just wanted to know the opinion of the rest of the readers. Should I buy my blackbrry storm from blackberryzuela?

  12. Avatar for PHIL MARC LABRAMONTE PHIL MARC LABRAMONTE says:

    Hi! i planned to buy blackberry storm in the states.is there a chance I could use that in philippines?

  13. Avatar for Nikka Manzano Nikka Manzano says:

    storm 2 9550 has a wifi..

  14. Avatar for Edna Selloriquez Pana Edna Selloriquez Pana says:

    Would you guys know any repair centres in Manila for blackberry gadgets?

    I bought a Blackberry STorm 9550. The latest in US but it is soooooooo defective. Grrrrrrr

  15. Avatar for lexer lexer says:

    its blackberry 9700 bold…3G AND WI-FI

  16. Avatar for lexer lexer says:

    i really need to know if i can use it because i just bought the phone , it’s brand new. it was connected to some network here but i disconnected in reason for me going back home…i really want this phone to get use wen i go back…pls reply

  17. Avatar for lexer lexer says:

    i have blackberry 9700 bold and i wonder if i can use it back home to manila .I got it here in toronto canada…i dont know what should i do so i can use when i go back to the philippines…

  18. Avatar for Liz14 Liz14 says:

    I think imma go with iphone parin. Ive been using this for almost a year na. It has wifi and cool apps to download although ung iba may bayad. Touchscreen pa.
    Nkkpag.facebook pa nga aqo sa phone ko pagtunatamad aqong mgopen ng laptop.

    Anyway, gus2 ko sana ng blackberry bold 9700, pero wala nun d2 sa phils. Kung bumili aqo sa U.S? Pede bang magamit un dito? Like ung iphone pede ijailbreak?
    Repz kau sa email ko. Kc gus2 ko bgao aqo mgfourth year high bago na ulit phone ko. :))

  19. Avatar for Shiloh Shiloh says:

    Hi guyz! I want to buy a new phone…kindly give mesome advise on what to choose from i-phone, smart2 or sony experia…

  20. Avatar for Carlo Carlo says:

    just had my blackberry storm given by my kumpare last night from ireland.. pa unlock lang po ba sa greenhills katapat nito? and may crack ang display between outermost screen and LCD..(pag naka on kasi, di kita ang crack)..

    magkano kaya ang pagawa nito at pa unlock? salamat po.

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