Blackberry Storm 9500 Review

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The BlackBerry Storm is the first touch screen phone from BlackBerry. Featuring Blackberry’s excellent push email service, the Storm features several text input methods thanks to the touch screen; QWERTY, SureType and alpha numeric. The Blackberry Storm also has a 3.2 Megapixel camera with autofocus and a bright flash, an MP3 player and 1GB of internal memory which is expandable further thanks to a memory card slot, HSDPA mobile broadband for high speed web browsing and GPS with Blackberry maps pre-installed. Pros & Cons Crisp and sharp display; GPS and HSDPA; extensive media support No Wi-Fi; a few interface bugs still need to be ironed out; camera doesn’t always take good shots

• Features of the BlackBerry Storm include:
  • 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash
  • Video recording (30fps)
  • Display: Transmissive TFT LCD, 480 x 360 pixels, 65,000 colours, user selectable font size
  • Media player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus audio formats supported)
  • Messaging: SMS, MMS, instant messaging, push email with attachment viewer
  • Built-in speakerphone
  • Voice dialling
  • Voice memo recorder
  • MP3 ringtones with LED indicator and vibration alert
  • GPS with BlackBerry Maps
  • Personal organiser functions
  • Memory: 1GB onboard memory plus microSD memory card slot (up to 16 GB)
  • Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB, RIM wireless modem, 3.5mm stereo headset port
  • Internet: Web browser, GPRS, EDGE
  • Size: 113 x 62 x 14 mm
  • Weight: 155g
  • Quadband GSM plus 3G HSDPA (7.2Mbps)
  • Talktime: 5.5 hours
  • Battery standby: 360 hours

Website:	Product Website
Technical Specifications
Network:	GSM 800 / 1900
Form Factor:	PDA
Dimensions:	113 x 62 x 14 mm
Weight:	155 g
Navigation:	Touch Screen
Battery Type:	1400 mAh Li-Ion
Talk Time:	5.50
Standby Time:	360
Memory:	1.0 GB
Expandable Memory:	microSD / TransFlash
Imaging
Main Screen:	65000 colors (TFT / Ambient Light Sensor) 360 x 480 px
External Screen:
Camera:	3.2 MP / Flash / Zoom / Auto-Focus / Landscape / Video Recorder
Audio
MP3 Player:	VCAST Music
FM Radio:
Speakerphone:
Push-To-Talk:
Multimedia
Wallpapers:	360 x 480 px
Screen Savers:	360 x 480 px
Ring Tones:	MP3
Themes:
Games:	BREW
Streaming Multimedia:	VCAST Video
Messaging
SMS:
EMS:
MMS:
Email:	POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP / Microsoft Exchange / Lotus Domino
Chat:	AOL / ICQ / Windows Live / Yahoo!
Predictive Text:	SureType
Applications
Phonebook Capacity:
Calendar:
To-Do List:
WAP:	2.0 (BlackBerry Browser)
Voice Commands:
Calculator:
Connectivity
Bluetooth:	2.0 (A2DP / AVRC / HFP / HSP / OPP / SPP)
Infrared Port:
High-Speed Data:	cdma2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A
Wi-Fi:
GPS:	VZ Navigator / BlackBerry Maps
PC Sync: