A new contender

The Blackberry Storm has many mobile consumers looking forward to the future. This new multimedia phone by Research in Motion is dubbed (like many new touch-screens nowadays) as an “Iphone Killer”. The potential of the phone has many Verizon consumers feeling excited and hopeful for the future. Their beloved carrier finally has a worthy contender for the Iphone throne. The big “V” is the exclusive network of the Blackberry Storm (A move that makes sense considering they have the largest Blackberry consumer-base). Whether it will dethrone the Iphone is irrelevant. The Storm shines on it’s own.

Features & more features

Although it hasn’t hit stores just yet, the Storm will come jam-packed with more features than you can throw an angry Apple fan at. Well maybe not, but the point is that this baby has almost all the bases covered (well expect for Wi-Fi). However, the Storm does have just about every other radio besides Wi-Fi. These radios are: CDMA / EV-DO Rev. A, quadband EDGE, and 2100MHz HSPA. This ensures the Storm’s usability (even internationally). The “Wow” factors don’t stop there. The screen is a rather sizeable 3.25 inches. The resolution is also pretty high for a mobile phone at 480×360 pixels. The camera is a generous 3.2 megapixels and comes with flash. The phone is expandable to 8GB and comes with 1GB of onboard memory. The phone also comes with the ability to hear your phone calls more clearly without interference throught the use of “enhanced background noise cancellation”. The web experience is almost as pleasing as the Iphone. The phone is multi-touch and comes with an accelerometer (tilt the phone and the picture tilts too). RIM says that the whole screen is one button and it employs a click technology that they are dubbing “clickthrough”. This means that when you push on a button you must wait for it to pop back up ensuring you that the button has been “clicked”. This mechanism gives typing on this device an authentic feel and it is an ingenious implementation on RIM’s part. This technology alone should set the Storm apart from the pack (including the Iphone).

The coming “Storm”

The Storm should be welcomed by even the staunchest Blackberry purists. That’s because they have kept most of the Blackberry OS and experience intact. The changes they made were to streamline the OS with a touch-screen user interface. They also added in alot of extra functionality (including Verizon’s own proprietary GPS and VCast services) and made it look uber-sexy to fit today’s changing form of phone aesthetics There hasn’t been a release date set yet (although some analysts predict a mid-November release). This sexy new phone by the Blackberry team is a welcome addition to an ever growing lineup of next-gen phones. We will soon see if it lives up to the hype. But you know the old saying: it’s always quiet before the Storm…