I went to the Verizon store at 10am the day of release and they said they had sold out ~2 hours before I got there.  I was able to order one and they were nice enough to write off the rebate right away and overnight me a Storm directly from the factory.  By noon the following day I had my Storm and the following are photos of the unboxing.  I know this is rather late, but like they say, better late than never.

After my phone finished booting I forgot all about taking pictures.  The following pictures were taken about a week later after I had been using the phone for a while.

I’ve now had my Storm for just over 3 weeks and I love it!  Every aspect of it is great.  Sure there are some problems with the software, but nothing major or inconvinient, and since it’s software, there’s a good chance it will be fixed in the near future.  Bottom line though, I don’t know how I lived without a BlackBerry up until now!