Blackberry Storm 2

The RIM, a Canadian Smartphone maker has unveiled a innovative touch screen handset called Blackberry Storm 2 9520. It had replaced the RIM’s iconic Querty keyboard what its previous version had offered, with the new improved clicking touchscreen technology. It also comes with new operating system named Black Berry OS 5, which is much more fast and improved. They have also included Wi-Fi this time which was not there in earlier BlackBerry mobile. Though its touch screen is not good as its rival, too sensitive, but one must appreciate for the security does Blackberry offers.

The Storm 2 does offer reliable email security same as the earlier phones. You can put the phone in to real time mode, if any new thing arrives, it will be automatically notify you.

The Storm 2 has larger display of 3.25 inch and comes with new bright and lucrative touchscreen. The Strom 2 provides very good resolution of 480 x 360 pixels. Display is TFT, supporting 65000 colors. Blackberry have not altered the size, measuring 112.5 x 62.2 x 14 mm, but slightly heavier at 160g.

The Storm 2 doesn’t have physical buttons for send, menu, return and end call. They have integrated it in touchscreen itself.

The Storm 2 is powered by new operating “Black Berry OS 5”, which offers kinetic scrolling enables easier handling of longer lists. OS is better optimized to make the device feel snappier and easier user interface.

On the left side, the storm 2 hosts a microUSB port and one of the convenience keys. The main default function of convenience key is voice controls, later you can change it according to your need. There is another convenience key present on right side, a two step button, which lets you to operate auto focus camera. You can modify its functionality if you do not need shortcut for camera. It has built in 2GB micros card, you store the data, video and music files in it. A 3.5mm jack and volume are also present on the right side. The speaker’s location is move from rear of the phone to bottom of the mobile, so that we can grip the phone easily thanks to its curvy shape.

It does not have FM radio. Storm 2 has decent video player with large screen, which offers good picture quality. It supports all the popular video formats like 3GP,MPEG ,DivX and XviD.

Storm 2 is equipped with 3 megapixel camera including a LED flash and surprisingly picture quality is not so satisfactory. Camera provides some basic editing functions like white balance, color effects, image-geotagging and digital image stabilization.The Storm 2 has GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, provides global roaming. It gives you extra speed with the support of 3G with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA. It supports Wi-Fi, which has customizable Wi-Fi manager which manages all the other connections. It also supports Bluetooth with A2DP.