BlackBerry Storm
Coming with Verizon, Vodafone
Verizon
Wireless, Vodafone Group, and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced that
the BlackBerry Storm, a new smartphone, will be available later this fall,
exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone
customers in Europe, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Targeting
consumers and business customers, it’ll offer global connectivity and
personal productivity advantages along with touch-screen features for easy
typing.
Claimed
to be the world's first "clickable" touch-screen, it responds like a
physical keyboard and also supports single-touch, multi-touch, and
gestures for intuitive and efficient application navigation.
The
BlackBerry Storm also features a built-in accelerometer, allowing its
touch-screen to automatically switch between landscape mode and portrait
mode as the user rotates the handset -- RIM's SureType keyboard layout is
available in portrait mode and a full QWERTY keyboard layout is available
in landscape mode. Other relevant features, such as cut and paste, are
also available.
It’s a 3G
mobile phone. In the U.S., the BlackBerry Storm 9530 gives Verizon
Wireless customers 3G EV-DO Rev. A/CDMA technology -- and (2100Mhz) UMTS/HSPA
and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM for global use. The BlackBerry Storm 9500 from
Vodafone supports (2100Mhz) UMTS/HSPA and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM
networks.
Customers
will get a full HTML browser that works in either portrait or landscape
orientation. Navigating Web sites is fast and easy with the touch-screen
interface that lets users double tap to zoom in and slide their fingers to
scroll and pan.
Icons
along the bottom of the display allow for quickly accessing Web sites,
switching between "Page View" and "Column View" as well as the ability to
toggle between "Pan" mode and "Cursor" mode.
The
enhanced browser supports file downloading, streaming audio and video (RTSP),
and with its built-in RSS support, new content from supported Web sites
can be automatically pushed to the user.
The
BlackBerry Storm also offers mobile e-mail and messaging solution. It
supports personal and corporate e-mail and text (SMS), picture (MMS) and
instant (IM) messaging on the prevalent consumer and enterprise platforms,
as well as easy access to leading social networking sites.
Photo courtesy: Research In Motion
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