yeah i don’t see it either

James, where exactly on your device did it provide you notice of the upgrade? Mine has not shown that notice

James I say buy the Storm… I see a Storm brewing over towards your area. I purchased 3 Storms and they all have been working great. Yes some may say they have a lag, but its not something that you have to wait for. I see this as a transition, kind of like Vista. When you minimize something in Vista it kind of seems it has like a lag but its the way it changes. Also if you noticed the Storm has like transparent in it. When you have some windows open you can see right underneath, kind of like Vista. I think this is also part of the way things seem to appear to have a lag when it changes over.

regular reader, go to OPTIONS/ADVANCED OPTIONS/WIRELESS UPGRADE which is the last option on that screen I believe.

The App Store arrived with a huge number or apps in such a short time, with RIM barely having any apps, almost none that compare to the apps for iPhone in quality. BB is doing all it can to copy the iPhone and the App Store. BUT not doing such a good job as the Storm is a neutered wannabe, with almost nothing in the way of games or other apps.

There are so many fantastic apps for the iPhone. I was praying for the Storm to be huge and innovative. What RIM brought was a crippled device with its biggest innovation being an entire screen that clicks and makes typing on the damn thing like using an old mechanical typewriters out of the 1950s!

Multi-player games, FTP/WebDAV apps, hundreds of navigation apps, social apps like FaceBook, Pandora, Last.fm, BeeJive IM, VNC apps, text editing apps, voice dialers, Joost, voice controlled directions, wikipedia apps, network tools, VoIP apps like Skype via Fring & TruPhone, 1password, Wallet apps, AOL IM, AOL Radio, Internet radio apps, real time flight tracker, language translator apps, are NOT the type of iPhone apps I am talking about. BB users have no choices like this.

With NO WiFi, a locked GPS chip, and without a decent SDK for developers RIM has NO chance of catching the App Store in numbers or QUALITY.

RIM has a phone and Apple has a platform, that is the best way I can describe it. The iPhone will continue to trounce RIM going forward if the Storm is all they can do! It is not even the best BB, the Bold is!

James which screen on Storm showed u that the update was available?

If I had stability issues like some reviewers have reported my impression would be quite different. That’s not the case though and with the upgrade I am seriously thinking of buying my own which says it all.

I haven’t played with the Omnia though. But let’s face it, a Blackberry is a Blackberry.

The reason why many reviewers didn’t like it was that the software just wasn’t ready. There was incredible lag, bugs, and the acceleromer would take half an hour to switch orientations. It just reeked of Big V pressuring RIM to push it out before Black Friday, and it’s a shame.

I have a review unit and a a personal unit that I bought ($269 on a one-year contract), and the new software makes this a pretty bad a** blackberry. It’s not quite the productivity device that the bold is, but it’s a well made device that’s very good. It’s an incredibly appealing alternative to the iPhone, and probably the best smartphone in general for Verizon (haven’t touched the Omnia though, any thoughts on that jk?)

I can’t understand how you love the storm but most reviews don’t like it. Personally I haven’t seen any reason to dislike it.