Blackberry 9500 Storm





Blackberry 9500 Storm gets its own promo video, looks good

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The upcoming Blackberry 9500 Storm seems to be riding the wave lately as new information leaks by the day. This time we have a nice promo video to show you - made by Vodafone.

We already presented you the upcoming Blackberry Storm and its fancy full touch user interface - it really looks good and it's a first from Blackberry too.

The Blackberry 9500 Storm also available as CDMA Blackberry 9530 has a 3.25-inch display with a resolution of 360 x 480 pixels, quad-band GSM support, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, and a 3 megapixel auto focus camera. Plus a fluid interface ready to take on the iPhone. Sounds nice, doesn't it?

Recently a PowerPoint presentation of the device also leaked, going into great details about the soon-to-be-released device. It seems that it will have copy-paste functionality and it will be the base for the future Blackberry Blackberry Application Center, which much like Apple's AppStore will bring applications straight to the handset (but obviously not in quantities as large as the ones in AppStore).

kaya Samsung Omnia aja...harganya bisa mahal nih....yang bold aja udah 8.9 jt ini bisa 10 juta kali.

Eeemmm lama2 HTC bisa kalah saingan nih sama Blackberry

Ini kayanya harus dibeli nih. Gue demen banget!

BlackBerry Storm 9530


The Blackberry Storm is not yet available for purchase, but it should be soon.

Blackberry Storm gets official, Vodafone and Verizon split the deal

After tons of info leaked already, the Blackberry Storm finally got the official treatment. It will be sold exclusively by Vodafone in Europe and Verizon Wireless in the US. Telius in Canada will also be pushing the device to local customers.

The Blackberry Storm is the first touchscreen device by BlackBerry. It's got a spanking new user interface, which as it seems is fluid enough to compete the Apple iPhone with an ease.

We already showed you the first official images of the device and its user interface and we even topped that with a Vodafone commercial video yesterday.

Now that the Blackberry Storm is finally announced and the specs are all clear, it turns out that it doesn't pack Wi-Fi functionality as rumored.

The Blackberry Storm 9500 will be sold through Vodafone networks and will be free on monthly plans of 35 GBP and up with an 18-month contract.

The Blackberry Storm 9530 is the variant of the handset that will be sold in North America. Along with the quad-band GSM and 2100Mhz UMTS support that the 9500 model has, it will also offer CDMA2000 1xEV-DO support.


General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 2100
CDMA2000 1x EV-DO
Announced 2008, September
Status Coming soon
Size Dimensions 112.5 x 62.2 x 14 mm
Weight 155 g
Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 360 x 480 pixels, 3.25 inches
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
Ringtones Type Polyphonic (32 channels), MP3
Customization Download
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook Yes, Photocall
Call records Yes
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), microSDHC, up to 8 GB
- 128 MB RAM
- 1 GB storage memory
- 624 MHz CPU
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD No
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA
WLAN No
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0
Features OS BlackBerry OS
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser HTML
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Black
Camera 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, video, flash
- Built-in GPS
- A-GPS function
- BlackBerry maps
- DataViz document viewer/editor
- Java
- Media player MP3/WMA/AAC+
- 3.5 mm audio output jack
- Video player MPEG4/3gp/H.264/WMV
- Organizer
- Calculator
- Voice dial
- Built-in handsfree
- Voice memo
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1400 mAh
Stand-by Up to 360 h
Talk time Up to 5 h 30 min

The UK release date is out now, you can pre-order pretty soon.

REVIEW

* Pros Good clickable touchscreen. Highly thumbable virtual keyboards. Integrated 3.5mm jack
* Cons No built-in Wi-Fi. Expected more potent camera. Poor video recording quality

While today’s slew of touch phones are all striving to emulate the iPhone’s fluid multi-touch magic – the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 is the closet yet – BlackBerry creator RIM has approached the touchscreen concept from a completely different angle. The manufacturer’s debut smartphone, the Storm, is the first handset to feature fully clickable touchscreen technology.

Surely, a clickable touchscreen is a paradox of sorts, but it works exactly how you’d imagine it. Your finger can happily graze the display and the new BlackBerry Bold-styled menu system without inadvertently setting it off. Once you’ve highlighted a selection, you press down on the screen and wait for the mechanised click.

Right click
Oddly, it works brilliantly, its success down to the reassurance that brushing the display won’t result in volley of expletives while those of us weaned on a mechanised world can still find the comfort in a resounding click from a touch phone.

The phone itself is populates the heavyweight end of the touch-phone family, roughly a little shorter than the pocket-denting HTC Touch HD. It’s a price to pay for an expansive 3.25in but while not as stunning as the Touch HD’s gigantic WVGA eye-popper, it’s still perfectly geared for a seamless internet surfing experience.

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The web browser lets you toggle between page fit and full-fat web view, using your fingers to deftly scroll through and around pages. A quick double-click will zoom in while pressing the escape key pans outs again.

What, no Wi-Fi?
With HSPDA download speeds on tap, web pages load pretty quickly, although the absence of Wi-Fi is frankly bewildering. The more cynical will see this as a ploy by the networks to rack in the data charges but whatever the reason a phone of this stature should have the latest wireless technology onboard.

The Storm also features some of the best virtual keyboards we’ve thumbed. Of course, the clickable screen helps but its responsive accelerometers let you easily switch between SureType and standard phone layouts in portrait view or full spacious QWERTY in landscape mode. The keypads are so slick, typos were almost non-existent.

App store open for business
Elsewhere, RIM has opened its doors to its Application Center, so Storm owners can download apps and software. Right now, it’s light on content, with usual suspects like Facebook, Google Maps, leading IM clients, YouTube and Flickr apps filling up the shelves. But with its SDK kit available to third-party developers, expect some weird and wonderful apps to appear soon.

With the exception of its efficient built-in GPS receiver and support for A-GPS, the rest of the Storm’s feature list is a little underwhelming. The autofocus-led 3.2MP snapper is decent enough but we expect a 5MP at the very least.

Similarly, the integrated 3.5mm headphone jack is nice touch but the music player, although festooned with bass audio boosters, still sounds a little muddy, even with your quality earphones plugged in. And we’ve gone the whole review without mentioning its peerless push email set-up. But then you already know the score there.

The Storm’s canny clickable touchscreen makes it one of the less irksome touch phones to paw and it no doubt represents the BlackBerry Holy Grail for hardcore fans. But for the rest of us, had RIM fitted Wi-Fi and spent closer attention to its other features we would have fallen for the BlackBerry Storm, rather than just admiring it.

BlackBerry Storm 9500 review

Key features:

* 3.25" 65K-color capacitive touchscreen of 360 x 480 pixel resolution
* A new touchscreen experience thanks to SurePress screen
* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 2100 MHz 3G with HSDPA support
* 3.15 MP autofocus camera, LED flash
* BlackBerry OS 4.7
* 624 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
* Built-in GPS and BlackBerry maps preloaded
* 1 GB internal storage
* Hot-swappable microSD card slot, ships with an 8GB card
* Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard goes as close to hardware keys as we have seen
* Great build quality
* Solid looks
* 3.5mm standard audio jack
* Bluetooth and USB v2.0
* Really nice web browser
* Document editor
* Excellent audio quality

Main disadvantages:

* No Wi-fi
* Only BlackBerry email support out of the box
* Interface not as quick as competitors
* Chubbier than most touchscreen phones
* Mediocre camera
* No FM radio
* No Flash support
* Fingerprint-prone front panel

Final words

At this point we're expected to pass the final verdict and we are afraid it is not the one we would have liked it to be. The BlackBerry Storm isn't really likely to achieve that sweeping convergence success. Quite unfortunately for the unique touchscreen, the rest of the device's features spell doom for the whole TouchBerry project.

The BlackBerry Storm fails to outgrow the company tradition and even if the exterior screams multimedia, the conservative business nature of BlackBerry shines through. It's almost like the guys at RIM are saying new members aren't welcome to the club, which we thought was the very idea of the Storm. And the existing members are almost sure to go for the Bold instead so the Storm pretty much finds itself in the middle of nowhere.

The amount of third party applications available can also be decisive for the Storm's ambitions. A device that gets upgraded is much more valuable than the what-you-see-is-what-you-get variety. While there certainly are some 3rd party applications that you can get for your Storm right now, their number is generally less than that of competing smartphones or even than those for other Blackberries. We really hope that the upcoming Blackberry App World would change things for the better.

Generally the Storm feels a stranger within its own family without being fit enough to survive the fierce competition outside of it. Obviously no company can afford to stay out of the touchscreen race and RIM are well aware of that. They even took the effort to differentiate their product with the unique SurePress system. The thing however is that the Storm remains a peculiar touch-enabled BlackBerry - with all the strengths this entails - but fails to stand up to the touchscreen standard-setters.

Mendingan pake HTC Touch HD aje. Lebih adem dan lebih oke....