BlackBerry Storm shows up in store. Initial reports: It’s very heavy!

The BlackBerry Storm isn’t even official yet, but already dummy handsets are showing up on display in Verizon stores. These shots were snagged by a curious shopper, who reports the dummy feels nice, but “boy is it heavy!”

Posting the pictures on CrackBerry.com’s forums, the user known only as BBerry said “I was at the verizon store and me and my dad were talking about upcoming phones and we were talking about the touch diamond & when the verizon guy shows us this thunder dummy he had laying around so i got to mess with it and boy is it heavy.”

However, it’s all not bad news. “The back steel part feels nice and cold on your hands,” the lucky shopper explains, adding “That push button screen thingy yeah its not as hard actually its pretty easy to press.”

We assume that means the Storm’s screen will be a flexible plastic number, rather than a glass-coated display, like that found on the iPhone.

Either way, with dummy handsets showing up in stores, the Storm can’t be far away from an official launch now. Keep it here for more as we hear it.

TBC | £TBC | BlackBerry (via CrackBerry)

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