I love writing about these extra batteries for the iPhone because apparently my iPhone is one of the worst on the market for battery life. It will not last 24 hours of “normal” usage. The custom-designed the STORM 1900mAh battery will give the iPhone 3G 6 hours of additional talking time. The battery weighs 65g and is 67x 62×15 (mm) in dimension. Go iPhone Go!
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The Vodafone BlackBerry Storm 9500 is making the rounds and leaving a trail of videos and reviews in its wake. Something I’ve recently discovered about the BlackBerry Storm is that it has no pinch style zoom. The touch screen isn’t so much a touch screen, as it is a “push screen.” In order to type and interact with the phone, you need to physically push down the screen and click. If I want to zoom in and out, I have to select a menu option. The iPhone is superior in this respect. On the other hand, the BlackBerry Storm has cut and paste. Score!
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The BlackBerry Storm, RIM’s first consumer touch screen device, goes on sale from November 17th in the US. The device is expected to satisfy the more demanding prosumers with a wide range of media capabilities.
Although the above specs are impressive, the real improvement will be the ‘clickable’ touch screen. The device has a haptic vibration type of system that makes the screen seem like it has physical buttons on it that you can press.
With all this great hardware, I’m hoping the software comes strong too. RIM’s software portal should be able to serve up some great content for this device.
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A couple days ago we got news from BlackBerry Cool that the BlackBerry Storm was officially announced on Vodafone. Since then, we’ve seen a huge surge in Storm activity. Bell and TELUS also decided to pick up the Storm.
I’m really excited about the touch screen developments on the BlackBerry Storm. The haptic vibration system makes for a new experience that the current touch screen market does not offer. When you touch the keypad for instance, the haptic vibrations simulate actual keys, making it easier to type.
On top of the media capabilities and new touch screen system, the BlackBerry Application Center will launch with the BlackBerry Storm’s OS 4.7. It will allow BlackBerry users find, browse and install/upgrade 3rd party BlackBerry apps hosted by carriers. The Application Center will display an up to date list of applications availalbe for download, along with description and marketing information about each application. Functionally, the App Center will consist of the device side client and a a server backend hosted by RIM that the application will interact with to retrieve up to date application list of applications hosted by the carriers.
The numbers I’ve been seeing lately say that about 50% of BlackBerry users are pure consumers. I’m expecting this device to push the consumer side even more.
The BlackBerry Storm will be coming to Canada on both Bell and TELUS. According to TELUS, they “will be the first in Canada to offer consumers the revolutionary BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone from Research In Motion. The addition of this world edition smart phone to TELUS’ line-up cements TELUS’ position as Canada’s smartphone leader with the most smartphones on Canada’s largest 3G network.”
Also, BlackBerry Cool commentor LouTreize has tipped off our site that the BlackBerry Storm will be coming to Bell as well in Canada!
Check out the BlackBerry Storm’s specs over at BlackBerry Cool!
Continue reading about the BlackBerry Storm on BBCool’s updates page
Touch screen smartphones are going to dominate the consumer market with their friendly UI, innovative games, true HTML browsing and general rich media capabilities. The market has now hit a point where there are 3 incredible touch screen devices aimed directly at prosumers. The HTC Dream G1, the iPhone 3G and the BlackBerry Storm. Of course there are more touch screen phones like the Instinct and the HTC Touch Diamond, but the 3 phones I have chosen are direct competitors. It’s an exciting time because no matter how the market divides itself, rest assured the smartphone consumer market will explode over the next few years. The questions I would like to answer are: what phone is best for who and why?
Continue reading the full breakdown of the HTC Dream G1, the iPhone 3G and the BlackBerry Storm
There have been a lot of leaked pics, video and info about the BlackBerry Storm and it all brings us to a November 1st launch day for the BlackBerry Storm on Verizon. The BlackBerry Storm will be a great iPhone contender.
Statistics have been showing that a growing number of BlackBerry users are young consumers. In fact almost half of BlackBerry users are consumers not enterprise. I’m curious how this device will fit into the consumer market. Surely a touch screen device is not aimed at enterprise.
Well it was only a matter of time until we were able to see some hands on video of the BlackBerry Storm/Thunder. This time the scoop comes not from us, but the “BREW Ninja”, who will obviously get someone at Verizon/Qualcomm fired. Go to 2:55 to see the goods.
It might seem a little surprising that a relative unknown has their hands on such a coveted device before someone like Boy Genius, but something is definitely going down at Verizon. Before this video went up, we were getting emails from people demanding money for Thunder/Storm pics. Is there some sort of major leak going on or are we closer to release than previously thought? We’ll investigate more in the morning.
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