Target Consumers: High-end touchscreen smartphone users.
Should they buy it? Yes.
Why? The BlackBerry Storm is the first clickable touchscreen smart phone on the Vodafone network. The high-speed 3G capability, rapidly connects to the cyberworld, accessing the most sought after multi-media services, music and video downloads, enabling messaging and social networking. The difference between the virtual and the real keys is diminished by the user-friendly interface of the 3.25-inch touchscreen, which creates the sensation of actually pressing the virtual keys that lights up when touched .
Technical Specifications: The TFT LCD 480 x 360-pixel resolution touchscreen display could be rotated from portrait to landscape view, changing the virtual keyboard in the process, from multi-tap or RIM’s Sure Type to full QWERTY format. The 3.2MP camera with visual capabilities, clicks stunning images. BlackBerry Storm will feature Vodafone’s entertainment and information services, including Vodafone Music, Google Maps, Find & Go navigation and the Vodafone live! portal. 16GB expandable memory storage capacity ensures that you can do many tasks with the Storm. To add more icing to the Storm cake, the advanced high performing browser depicts desktop-type web page on the display.
Pricing & Availability: BlackBerry Storm will be available from Vodafone stores in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand from next month.
What others are saying? According to Priya Ganapati of Gadget Lab
The Storm will have… access to an App Center along the lines of iPhone App Store or Google Android marketplace.
[Courtesy: Vodafone/ RIM]