October 10th, 2008 by ketyung
RIM’s latest 3G smartphone is the BlackBerry Storm, which has been officially announced in the States on Wednesday by Vodafone and Verizon wireless. After the BlackBerry Bold, the Storm is also dubbed as one that would change the world of smartphones as well as BlackBerry itself.
The Storm features a full clickable 3.26-inch touchscreen with resolution 480 x 360, making it fit to compete with Apple iPhone. Other goodies that can be found are a built-in accelerometer, 3.2-megapixel camera, built-in GPS with a-GPS funtionality, 1GB onboard storage with microSD/SDHD memory card slot, built-in handsfree, 3.5 mm headphone jack, Visual Qwerty keyboard and the great thing is it’s loaded with lots of applications.
For connectivities, the Storm supports 3G/EDGE for high speed Internet access, Bluetooth and mini USB. The touchscreen also offers great feedback, eliminating the little frustration found on other smartphones that provide poor feedback.
This phone is only slightly bigger than a 30GB iPod video, although it looks bigger than that in the picture. As mentioned there are lots of great apps loaded on the BlackBerry Storm, here you go, a list as follows:
* BlackBerry® Internet Service, BlackBerry® Unite!, BlackBerry® Professional Software and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support
* a Media Player which supports many audio and video formats. Itcan 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
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BlackBerry Storm
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