Blackberry 'Storm' the Smartphone market

Iconic iPhone's latest after-effect! Like Steve Jobs iPhone is iconic by proving touchscreen has lot more to do. The leading vendors like Nokia, Blackberry etc who never tried their luck with touchscreen turned irresistible with the trend. Android's iPhone like interface is another example.


Any way Nokia came with 5800 Tube as a real challenge to iPhone. The challenge doesn't end, iPhone have to face more challenges. Now it is RIM's Storm, another possible threat to iPhone. All smartphones that target at iPhones market share highlight what iPhone lacks-like video-recording, bluetooth, landscape keyboard, voice-dialing etc


This the new 'Storm' from leading smartphone provider RIM. This cool looking phone has got all what iPhone is criticized for. Video-recording, bluetooth, 3 types of keyboard, voice-dialing, better camera (3.2 MP) with auto-focus and auto-flash, group text messaging, MMS and more... RIM's first UI for a touchscreen Blackberry looks awesome, though underlying OS remains the same. Hopefully retaining the reliability and usability that comes with them...

Blackberry Storm 9500 comes with 1GB internal memory with an extendable microSD slot up to 8GB. The OS runs on a 624 MHz CPU with 192 MB RAM. Is not the icons beautifully arranged in an easy usable pattern?


What if you like to have the UI in the other way with landscape menus... just rotate it. Like iPhone it also features an accelerometer which in turn switch to landscape and portrait mode when the hand set is rotated.


The screen is a crystal clear TFT Touchscreen of 3.3 inches, at a resolution of 360 X 480 pixels. A-GPS and Blackberry maps will help you to find businesses and restaurants effortlessly.

The main highlight of Storm would be its 'Haptic' touch technology, where users feel the buttons to be pressed and released as with a real keyboard. Giving iPhone a blow it features three keyboard options: QWERTY in landscape mode, SureType and Traditional 12-key in Portrait mode.

This is the SureType mode, where users type in portrait mode. Here keys are arranged in QWERTY fashion with many keys share two letters. Special keys to launch numeric keypad, symbols, caps etc. Users type using a dictionary which resembles T9 dictionary. see the above pic.

Here is the landscape keyboard. Which looks more eye candy than 5800 Tube's keyboard on first look. This offers easy interface for the users to type using their thumps, a feature which would be a necessity for coming touchscreen phones!