Here enters the blackberry’s storm to demand its share on the touch screen market (rightfully though).Since, every one is going touch screen now . It is no surprise to hear that blackberry has gone touch screen .Through this phone Blackberry tried its hand even on the Smart phone section . Does this phone have enough muscle to share both Smart phone and Business phone features ? Lets try finding an answer.
Thumbs Up for:
1. 3.2 MP camera
2.Fully functional inbuilt GPS
3.innovative Touch screen with RIM’s Surepress Technology.
4.Blackberry Interface.
5. its price.
Thumbs Down for :
1. The accelerometer is bit sluggish to respond.
2. Sluggish Multimedia Applications.
3. Speaker is noisy sometimes.
4. It takes some time to adapt to the suspension of the touch screen due to Surepress .
5. No integrated Wi-Fi .
6. Storm is on a bit heftier side.
Final verdict.
If you are a heavy emailer or a hard core business thinking of fancying a iphone like Business Phone , storm is not the phone for you . If you are a person who are quite comfortable with a kind of a Smartphone coupled with some business mobile features you can very well go for blackberry storm.
Features :
Style and Design :
When coming to design, BlackBerry has played it safe to maintain a usual touch screen phone design and a full black finish (with silver accents). As I said earlier Blackberry Storm 9350 is on a heftier side compared to other phones.Storm is 4.4 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide by 0.5 inch deep and weighs 5.6 ounces.
Below the screen ,you can see a set of tactile navigation controls that consists of Talk and End/Power buttons, a Menu key, and a clear button. Unlike other BlackBerry models, there is no trackball navigator and I miss it personally .On the right side you can see the 3.5 mm head phone jack , a volume control and a dedicated key for the camera , on the left side you can see a micro USB port and user defined key.
Touch Screen :
BlackBerry Storm uses an innovative new technology called as SurePress from Research In Motion (RIM) , Which actually makes you to fell the Touch screen as a tactile key. Surepress Keyboard is activated when the phone is portrait mode and a QWERTY keyboard in the landscape mode.you have to actually press the screen rather tapping the screen like other touch screen mobiles , this is due to Surepress technology . Due to this it takes time to adapt to this phone.
The attractive feature of the touch screen is its finger tapping gestures (like Mouse gestures in Opera) . when you tap a screen twice the webpage gets zoomed and there are lot more gestures that can make things easy for you.
Camera :
Blackberry Storm offers a 3.2 Mp camera with video recording capability. The picture quality is decent one can’t say any more than that .The sound control on the right side acts as a Zoom in and zoom out key in the camera mode.you can also have an option of geotaging the photos with the built in GPS.
Multimedia and Browsing :
Coming to multimedia features,the phone’s media player supports all the popular audio and video formats including H.263.Storm comes with a 1GB on board memory and which can be extendible up to 16GB.The sound clarity and quality through the phone’s head set are quite good . storm promises to be a good music phone if it had a good speaker too, but it does not. The speaker is too noisy.
Blackberry storm 9350 houses a full HTML browser. The phone also supports streaming videos .The storm supports two modes – cursor and pan modes. you can use some finger tap gestures to Zoom in and Zoom out the pages. The browsing experience in storm is quite good.
Emailing and Apps :
Emailing experience is not quite great in this phone comparing to other Blackberries mainly due to the cramped QWERTY keyboard and sluggishness of the phone.you can also open all the word,excel and PowerPoint attachments.
From the Application center you can download basic apps like Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger, Flickr, Facebook and other IM clients.
Iphone Vs Storm :
We are in a strange situation of comparing an Apple (iphone) with a (Black)Berry.At $199.99 Blackberry storm is a decent Smartphone which is ahead of Apple iphone with its video recording feature and a 3.2 MP camera but when it comes to phone feel , ease of using and browsing Iphone is second to none.
Specs.
Check out the Specifications of BlackBerry storm.
Price :
USD : $199.99
in India : Rs.36,000
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