As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts on Xperia and LG Renoir, the rivals to the touchscreen competition are endlessly flooding the future mobile market.Nokias Tube and the due flagship touch device will have to catchup faster with consumers in order to keep the run steadily and smoothly,yet growing.All the major mobile phone manufactures are in a hurry to grab their market share and the reputation in the forthcoming revolution.
RIM’s BlackBerry the inpirational idol for Nokia E61,with its distinctively clustered QWERTY key layout has finally turned away from its unique design and enters the run with BlackBerry Storm 9500(Europe) and 9530(US),So it’s evident that the iPhone has made a significant Mental/Market impact on most of the leading mobile phone manufacturers though the trend setter itself isn’t showing much signs of chasing it’s own race.
BlackBerry devices not very popular in our country though there is a premium Blackberry service available,are always ugly devices for my taste,I’ve never seen an appealing design coming out from them.But the Storm 9500 is different,it’s stylish and probably will turn out to be a eyecatcher among the competitors,may be they have figured out that there was something wrong with there design and the new transition from Keyed to keyless is the best time to go for that change.The large screen adds a noble look to it,and surely capable of entertaining the crowds with its built-in video playback capabilities to support MPEG4 and WMV formats.Not only the Video department,it will pose with a great music experience thanks to its Music player capable of playing MP3,WMA and AAC encoded files,and can be synced with your PC via iTunes or the BlackBerry Music Sync software.The 3.5mm Jack is another advantage in expanding the Music experience.
The built-in GPS is another success factor in the contest,in order to live up to the hype with the supplied Backberry maps to easily find your way.And the 3.2MP camera is not the best at the time of its arrival but still keeping in mind that their prececessors were solely built for bussiness usage the consumers will not be much disappointed over this.
All in all,still the best isn’t there with a BlackBerry if it aint used for Business,still the legend is there behind its sucess story emails play a major role.The integration of office email system via BlackBerry Enterprise server which works with Microsoft Enterprise,Lotus Domino and Novell Groupwise ensuring a steady continuous connection all the time.
So the Storm isn’t coming to fight the future with basics,they have their usual specially catered Business recipes but now more spicier with Multimedia Flavours.So I’m eager to see the head to head touch battle when all these devices set foot in the battle ground.The Storm with the below mentioned official Specifications is said to be available from 22nd of October exclusively via Verizone Wireless.
Features of the Blackberry Storm
Lets have a look at some of the hardware features packed into this little beaut:
- 3.25? Touchscreen (480 x 360)
- Accelorometer
- Visual Qwerty keyboard
- 3.2 Megapixel Camera
- Integrated GPS with A-GPS functionality
- 1GB Onboard memory with MicroSD support
- 624 MHz Processor
- 3G
- EDGE
- Built in Handsfree
- Bluetooth
- 3.5mm Stereo Headphone Jack
- Mini-Usb connectivity
To complement the great hardware specs the Storm has a plethora of fantastic applications in its repertoire that are certain to please left- and right-brainers alike, and the Blackberry OS seamlessly joins these all together. Included in the applications toybox are:
- BlackBerry® Internet Service, BlackBerry® Unite!, BlackBerry® Professional Software and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support
- a Media Player which supports many audio and video formats. It can be used to play slideshows and create playlists and even has 11 equalizer preset filters.
- Blackberry Maps
- DataViz Documents on the Go which allows you to view and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoitn documents directly on the handset.
- Ambient light sensor that adjusts the backlighting according to the surrounding light.
- Organiser
- Calculator
Source: DialAphone and Phones4u