The most important button on the Blackberry Storm 2 9520 is what people call the 'berry' button. This button is the key to navigating round this phone. Pressing the berry button brings up the phones full menu which gives access to everything from setting the phone up for Wi-Fi to changing ring tones and generally customizing your phone.
From the main 'berry' menu you can access all the phones inner workings as well as any apps or games that you decide to install. You can also access a massive list of help files that are very useful if you've just bought one of these phones
The handset is a little less blocky in appearance, the original’s strident chrome striping having been toned down a bit, and the buttons on the sides (volume rocker, Camera shutter, programmable voice notes button) now all sport BlackBerry’s generic black rubberised plastic coating.
The Blackberry Storm 2 comes with 2GB of memory which to us isn't quite enough, bearing in mind you might want to store pictures, movies and music on your Blackberry we really think they could have put 8GB in from the start, specially when competitors like Apple have I-Phones that come in 8, 16 and 32gig already. This is only a minor gripe as the Storm 2 has a slot for a memory card and we promptly bought an 8 GB Micro SD Card off Ebay and expanded ours to take a much larger music collection.
The BlackBerry Storm 2 9520 the floating screen has been retained and updated, and RIM would have us believe that it’s better than before. To pique interest beyond the Marmite divide, the new Storm has also got Wi-Fi and more Flash memory, plus a little bit of social network integration.
The new system is certainly more sensitive and less off-putting than the original’s fairly lengthy travel between press and connection and it has limited multi-touch capabilities too. So you can access multi-press shortcuts on the keyboard, helping you to build up your typing speed, but it doesn’t stretch to pinch-to-zoom on the browser.
We rather like the music player layout, with its understated graphics. Music sounds surprisingly full-bodied through the supplied headphones, though you can easily switch them using the 3.5mm jack plug or Stereo Bluetooth connection. MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA files are all supported and, like RIM’s other recent release, the Bold 9700, it comes with a 2GB microSD card.
Full Phone Specifications
Network
2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G HSDPA 2100
Announced 2009, October
Available released 2009, November
Size
Dimensions 112.5 x 62.2 x 14 mm
Weight 160 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
2 GB Internal
MicroSD card slot up to 16GB
Data
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP
MicroUSB v2.0
Camera
Primary 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, image stabilization
Video
Secondary
Sound
Alert types Vibration; MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker
3.5mm jack
Features
BlackBerry OS
Messaging (SMS, MMS, Email, IM)
HTML Browser
Radio
Games + downloadable
GPS with A-GPS support
Java
- BlackBerry maps
- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- MP3/WMA/AAC+ player
- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Organizer
- Voice memo/dial
Battery
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1400 mAh
Stand-by Up to 305 h (2G) / Up to 280 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 5 h (2G) / Up to 6 h (3G)
Available Colors : Black
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