Blacberry Storm

BlackBerry Storm is the first handset from Research In Motion (Rim) to feature a touch-based user interface similar to the popular Apple iPhone. This may attract more attention from consumers, but business users tend to remain with the traditional BlackBerry design.

Now available from Vodafone, the BlackBerry Storm does not have a keyboard and display a larger 3.25in fingertip control is designed to function only with the standard phone / end button and a BlackBerry, and the menu button in the front bezel. This also has the ability to improve the music and video, such as the ability to play movies and synchronize with the user’s iTunes library.
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Meanwhile, Storm also features the usual corporate, such as the ability to register with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (SSX) for push email and administrator control, seems to be more aimed at consumers.

Storm has a 3G network support, Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS hardware for location-based applications, but not Wi-Fi, which many competitors have devices such as iPhone. There are, but a decent 3.2 megapixel camera.

The Storm’s touch screen and gesture recognition is bound to invite comparisons with the iPhone from Apple, and both are quite similar input system. With both devices, the user can scroll up and down the menu and email list by swiping the screen, and tap the screen to zoom in applications such as browsers. The main menu icons have only the right size to easily tapped with the fingertips, and the second device automatically adjusts the screen orientation when you twist them around.
Where is the Storm different is clicked on the screen, which allows the user to press down – such as clicking a mouse button – to select one of the options. This feature means that it is possible to scroll through email and open a menu without accidentally or unintentionally trigger some functions, which we have found a spectral sustainable mobile phone with touch-activated.

Screen is clicked should also make the software more useful screen keyboard, but we did not find that this will happen. Click the feedback does not help, but we found we could only tap out text at a fraction of the speed possible with a real keyboard, thumb keyboard even other Smartphone. The problem is that tricky to press the correct button, and although the Storm lamp button you think he is trying to press, and this forces you to look carefully at the keyboard before you press.