Some tipster managed to sneak their camera phone out to snag some shots during today’s internal Verizon employee briefing on the BlackBerry Storm. One’s a basic product shot, while the other two show the handset’s browser in landscape and portrait orientations. Sure, the shots sort of look like they were taken from the inside of a space helmet during a snow storm, but this person likely risked their job for these - high fives to them!
Two more shots after the jump.
[Via CrackBerry]
I think it is a very sad state when a trusted employee leaks information and photos to the press. That person’s job value just went to zero, in my opinion. There is no loyalty.
@Donna
I agree and disagree. I agree that there is no loyalty anymore. I disagree that it is sad. Verizon (or any other fortune 500 company in the gadget world) thrive on leaked images. It is free advertising and the blog sphere eats it up. They can also see what possible buyers are saying before they make a multi-million dollar investment into manufacturing.
If there is no hype or critics are bashing the product, the company (in this case Verizon) wins before releasing a ‘flop’ and jeopardizing there bottom line as well as investor value.
How do you think they let BGR and Phonescoop dot com stay in business? With out them they have no market research which usually results in crappy phones and/or gadgets.
@Donna -
Jesus christ woman!!! This employee was nice enough to do us all a favor! If you don’t like these pics why did you bother to look at them? Look at you.. “loyalty”.. “job value” “blah blah”. You’re so lame. You really suck.
wow Mike, what an intelligent and thoughtful response - so glad you took the time to enlighten us - write again on your tenth birthday will you ?
good call justin, this is some pretty epic advertising.
however, at the point where they have a fully functional unit, they’ve already invested in having tooling developed, so the vast majority of their manufacturing cost has already been spent..