The ultra slick looking Blackberry Storm 9500 is Blackberry’s first touchscreen mobile phone offering to date and makes a great first impression. Featuring a brilliant hi-resolution screen with stunning UI, the Blackberry Storm boasts fantastic ease of use and navigation. Packed with a host of goodies as you’d expect, the Storm lets you to keep up to date and in touch effortlessly whilst on the go. With built in GPS, Blackberry maps, 3.2MP camera, media player and 3.5mm jack, there’s plenty to entertain you with the new Blackberry Mobile Phone.
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BlackBerry Storm 9500 Key Features
A 3.2″ touchscreen with a 360×480 resolution and SurePress technology.
Built-in Assisted GPS with BlackBerry Maps installed.
A 3.2 megapixel camera.
Music and video player.
The Storm is 3G with HSDPA support.
1GB of internal memory and a MicroSD slot complete with 8GB card.
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BlackBerry Storm 9500 Full Spec
The BlackBerry Storm is using version 4.7 of the BlackBerry OS, which has been enhanced to become more easier to use with your fingers. What is good however, is how little the experience has changed from previous BlackBerry sucesses. The Storm has homepage screen which can be accessed and either by pressing the screen or the handy BlackBerry button below it takes you to the full menu as usual. Alongside the BlackBerry menu key are the call and back keys, however, one could also call the entire screen a key all by itself! This is because of SurePress, a system which means you actually have to press the screen down to select a function, resulting in a soft click.
When you first pick up the BlackbBerry Storm you have feel a bit overwhelmed, however once you get you get better aquiated you’ll appreciate the level of feedback the system provides. BlackBerry have also thought about the text input too, something which is very important to the overall BlackBerry usability experience. Holding the phone normally gives you the SureType style keypad familiar to anyone who has used a BlackBerry Pearl, but by turning the phone on its side – and letting the accelerometer adjust the screen automatically – a full QWERTY keyboard is displayed to make typing out your messages more natural. DataViz is installed which allows you to edit your most popular documents and then send them out too.
Like many other touchscreen phones, a swipe of your finger scrolls around pages or through your picture gallery and just as before, the BlackBerry key brings up the menu so anyone used to a BlackBerry OS will feel comfortable using this new phone and new user will be able to adjust in no time. The Storm is a 3G device and has support for HSDPA plus EDGE and GPRS, so web browsing on the move is as fast as currently possible, plus the BlackBerry browser has been given a tweak or two and is better than previous incarnations. Of course, this being a BlackBerry means it excels at anything email related and connects quickly and simply to just about any network you can think of.
Away from using the BlackBerry Storm for buisness functions, you have the 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with an LED flash, a very good music and video player, a 3.5mm jack plug for your own headphones and the Assisted GPS receiver complete with BlackBerry Maps.
