Amazon is well known for its low-price offers and the one about to be presented could be considered for this category. The company is selling RIM’s BlackBerry Storm at the price of $99, but as expected, there is a catch. Customers must sign a two-year deal with Verizon, but that is not all – in the event of deciding to cancel the service or reduce the service plan in the first 181 days, customers will have to pay a penalty of $250, which is actually the discount made by the carrier for the phone.

Verizon is also promoting its ‘buy one and get one for free’ campaign for the Storm, which brings the phone’s cost to the same $99, but this offer demands two two-year contracts (or two lines). This offer is scheduled to end on March 31, 2009.

Research in Motion released the device in November 2008 and it was received with great enthusiasm at the time. As expected, the Storm was also considered a direct competitor to the iPhone, as it happens every time a new smartphone is released on the market. The company presented the device as the phone equipped with the "world's first 'clickable' touch screen" – as the Storm's screen was designed to compress when tapped and send the user a tactile feedback to mimic the feeling of a real keyboard.

It provides all of BlackBerry's e-mail, calendaring, messaging and mobile Web capabilities, also offering multimedia capabilities such as GPS, video, music and several others. It features a 3.2-megapixel camera with zoom, flash and video-recording capabilities.