The New BlackBerry Storm
Posted on Oct 08, 2008 - 12:42pm by Michael in Technology
Blackberry Storm
In order for us to determine whether the Blackberry Storm will be able to compete with the Iphone we need to examine its features. First off it looks great in my opinion; this is the first phone I have seen from RIM that has a beautiful high resolution screen. That is something that is a huge draw to the Iphone, the beauty of how it looks. The Blackberry Storm also has a full touch screen that looks amazing. It looks just as good as any Iphone I have ever seen. The size of the touch screen is 3.25 inches and has a screen resolution of 360×480. The touch screen keyboard will have two separate layouts. The first will be setup in landscape mode and will have a full QWERTY keyboard. The second will be setup in the portrait mode and the keyboard will use the SureType layout from RIM.
One of the biggest draws to the Blackberry products are from corporate types or people that need constant access to their email. RIM has built a huge client base just based on this fact alone and has built a whole line of products to benefit these types of people. This will not change with the Blackberry Storm. It will still have support for multiple types of email accounts and is said to have more security features available for it. This will be a big draw as large corporations will want sensitive data to be protected.
The Storm will feature a full html browser similar to the Iphone. It will be capable of viewing and editing files for Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word. It will have a 3.2-megapixel camera which is better than the camera featured on the Iphone. It will have 1 GB of memory available on the smart phone and an expansion slot cable of handling of to an 8GB card. The BlackBerry Storm is expected to be released sometime before the end of this year. The price point has not been set yet, but it most likely won’t be cheap. I imagine a price tag of somewhere around the $299 to $399 range.
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While it does look great and will probably draw in the “gotta have the newest and greatest” crowd, I find it lacking. The whole reason that I was willing to try my Blackberry is because it has a full, physical qwerty keyboard.
If the keyboard is visible on this Blackberry, the remainder of the screen is only as large as my old BB. Why bother? I would rather type on a physical keyboard than a touchscreen any day.
What would be great would be this phone with a slide out physical keyboard. That way you would keep your entire screen for viewing and have the full tactile sensation of a real keyboard.