We probably all know by now that the upcoming BlackBerry Storm has a touchscreen, but what else can we expect from it?
Based on some of the specs found on the internet, it comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, 128MB RAM, 1GB on board memory, Bluetooth, GPS, 3.5mm jack, speaker phone, proximity sensor, accelerometer, 1400 mAh battery equivalent to 15 days of standby and 5.5 hours of talk time, and of course, a very reasonably sized 3.26-inch touch sensitive 360×480 184ppi display to work your fingers on. It likewise supports SMS, MMS, microSD cards, MS Word and PowerPoint files, and cut/copy & paste which the other more popular touchscreen phone sorely lacks. As far as connectivity goes, you won’t have a problem with its dual-band 800/1900MHz CDMA/EV-DO Rev A, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, and 2100MHz HSDPA compatible. No WiFi support here, but I guess these bevy of features is reason enough to forgo that missing option though I personally believe it would have made the Storm a killer device if RIM had included it. Anyway, with or without it, the Storm still looks like impressive.
Sound pretty enticing and can’t wait for it to be released? We feel the same way, but with Vodafone, Verizon, Telus and Bell all making their respective announcements, it probably won’t be too long now before it hits the market.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:56 am
no WIFI = FAIL!
October 11th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Seriously, what’s the big deal about a 3G phone not having wifi? Aside from actually connecting to a pc on a local nw, I would assume that you could do anything you need to over the 3G network.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Actually not having Wifi on this case is a good choice.. Wifi capabilities will drain most of your battery life.. Who need Wifi when you still got Ev-Do, EDGE, etc. besides you still have to pay datas for using Wifi.. the only good coming from this I think is that it’s a little faster.
July 30th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
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