At last the BlackBerry Storm’s officially arriving in Australia come December 1, 2008. And, in accordance to the imminent release date, Vodafone announced the pricing plans associated with the device. The Storm will be offered free on Vodafone’s Internet Data Cap plans.

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I say train because the number of handset manufacturers announcing their intent to come up with their own devices carrying the Google Android OS can only increase in time. After Samsung, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Hop-on, OpenMoko and any other we might have missed, comes Huawei.

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Gizmodo, has just been tipped off by a Verizon employee that the Blackberry Storm will be available on November 14! Expect things to start warming up in the iPhone 3G / T-Mobile G1 dominated arena.

As to when the Blackberry Storm will be available in Australia, we’ll have to wait to hear from Vodafone Australia. If you’re keen about this phone, sign up at Vodafone’s Blackberry Storm web page.

Via Gizmodo

To confirm earlier news that the BlackBerry Storm would arrive in Australia on Vodafone, the telco put up a page dedicated to RIM’s first full-faced touch screen handset.

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Vodafone already has an existing 3G network that’s also partially-owned by Optus. That’s only 63% of the telco’s intended total network coverage though. The plan was to get the rest of the network ready by Christmas, but it will take a few more months before it rolls out.

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It’s only obvious after a series of leaked information including slides of a PowerPoint presentation and more recently, a promotional video, that the BlackBerry Storm would be officially out soon. Vodafone UK already put up a page dedicated to RIM’s touch screen device.

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If the “leaked” PowerPoint presentation and additional details about the Storm and the BlackBerry Application Center (meant for the Storm) isn’t enough to convince you of the phone’s impending, err, release, then maybe this will.

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Here’s a price cut that’s sure to make travel-loving, extroverted geeks happy (don’t we all get happy with any kind of price cut?). Vodafone is offering its mobile broadband plans for lower rates so mobile computing just got a lot cheaper in Australia.

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A music subscription service will be launched in Australia by Vodafone and will be available to all the company’s 3G subscribers. Called the MusicStation, it lets users download as much music as they want for a weekly fee of AU$2.75.

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Always on the go? Vodafone Australia announced that it is launching a USB stick mobile broadband connection. It’s something I’d want to get my hands on, just so I can bring you gadget goodness while frolicking in the beach. Vodafone has actually done well to challenge Three which released a similar product a few months ago.

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