The BlackBerry Storm is a beast of a phone in more ways than one. Fronted by a meaty, high-resolution touchscreen with an innovative clicking mechanism, the phone is easily the prettiest by RIM to date. There’s a brushed metal back, a beautiful new OS interface, and enough radios to give your grandkids cancer (EV-DO Rev. A, quad-band GSM, Europe-friendly HSPA, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, though sadly no WiFi).
The 3.25-inch screen itself is bright, colorful and high-resolution (480 x 360). Video playback is sharp and smooth, and the extra pixels on the large screen means eye fatigue won’t be much of an issue. Unfortunately, as far we can tell there’s no hardware video acceleration, which shouldn’t be a problem for correctly-compressed video, but there aren’t any Apple or Nokia-style swooping transitions in, we don’t have high hopes for gaming, and stuff like browsing through photos and and panning around web pages is fairly choppy.
The lack of hardware acceleration could also cut down on battery life, which RIM is pegging at 15 days of standby and 5.5 hours of talk, but hasn’t fleshed out with media playback figures.
In addition to the touchscreen, there’s a full complement of standard buttons for getting things done: rocker switch and camera button on one side of the device; another function button on the other side; call, end, back and BlackBerry buttons on the face; invisible mute and lock buttons up top.
There’s an internal accelerometer, and the screen (speedily) rotates accordingly, even allowing full rotation for left-handed use. There’s a micro-USB plug on one side, and a 3.5mm jack on the top right side of the handset. There’s a very, very loud built-in speaker for pushing out your tunes old school, and an included dock for enjoying movies in such a fashion (when docked the phone also doubles as an alarm clock, and is plenty loud enough to pull it off).
The traditional BlackBerry weight advantage is gone as well — the Storm’s large glassy touchscreen and related clicking mechanism, in addition to a very solid build means the weight certainly matches the size.
Full Phone Specifications
Network
2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G HSDPA 2100
Announced 2008, September
Available released 2008, November
Size
Dimensions 112.5 x 62.2 x 14 mm
Weight 155 g
Display
TFT capacitive touchscreen, 65K colors
360 x 480 pixels, 3.25 inches
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
Memory
Practically unlimited phonebook entries and fields, Photocall
Call records
1 GB Internal storage, 128 MB RAM, 192 MB ROM
MicroSD Card slot up to 16GB (8GB card included)
Data
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
MicroUSB v2.0
Camera
Primary 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, image stabilization
Video, QVGA
Sound
Alert types, Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker
3.5mm jack audio
Features
BlackBerry OS
CPU 528 MHz ARM 11 processor, Adreno 130 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7600 chipset
Messaging (SMS, MMS, Email, IM)
HTML Browser
Games + downloadable
GPS with A-GPS support
Java
- BlackBerry maps
- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- MP3/WMA/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Organizer
- Voice dial/memo
Battery
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1400 mAh
Stand-by Up to 360 h
Talk time Up to 5 h 30 min
Available Colors : Black
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