14 DAY TRIAL // Canadian carrier Bell started offering the OS 4.7.0.122 for the BlackBerry Storm 9530 last week, only that it made it available without an installer, so those who wanted to update needed a PC and RIM's Desktop Manager in order to do that. Now the operator has added the OS on its website, allowing users to perform the update easier and with fewer clicks.
Given the fact that the currently released OS is meant for Bell customers, those who own a Verizon Wireless Storm and would like to install it should take all the precautions, like they would do when handling a leaked iteration of the platform – and there have been a lot of them spotted in the wild lately –, so as to make sure they won't lose any important data on the handset or turn the device into a useless machine.
However, Canadian users can consider themselves lucky to be able to download and install the 0122 version of the BlackBerry OS for Storm, especially since Verizon is still a couple of weeks away from releasing the .113 version of the platform. Users of the device certainly have high hopes when it comes to said release, given the fact that it should deliver a full QWERTY in portrait mode, as well as other improvements.
And the device needs those improvements for sure, a statement that’s not coming from us, but from one of RIM's co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie, who said it back in January 2009, followed by the other one, Mike Laziridis, who reinforced it only a few days ago, in an interview with laptopmag: “That’s our first touch product, and you know nobody gets it perfect out the door. You know other companies were having problems with their first releases.”
Laziridis' statement is, in a way, a confirmation that the company intends to come to the market with more touchscreen devices in the future, since Storm was only the first of them, which means that rumors about a possible Storm 2 handset expected to surface in the wild sometime in the second half of the ongoing year might prove true after all.