Just announced BlackBerry Storm has been spotted and Rich Brome from Phone Scoop has spent a time with this new handset. According to Rich’s words the new BlackBerry is not large, thick, or heavy but pocket-friendly. It’s build quality is excellent, in comparing with an iPhone it is shorter but larger than the Curve.

The display has 12% more pixels than the iPhone which are also able to make more details and bring clear and crisp experience. Touchscreen technology also works very well on the whole display which is one huge a physical button.

On the front are also 4 buttons: menu, back, send and end which are easy-to-use as well as easy-to-find. There are mute and lock buttons on the top. For storage, this handset offers microSD card slot for up to 16GB as well as 1 GB of phone memory.

Unfortunately, this phone is missing the Wi-Fi which is last times very wanted, but company argues with the 3G support. Our Japanese and Korean friends will also enjoy the new Storm thanks to its GSM/EDGE and HSDPA 2100 data support.

BlackBerry Storm 9530

source Phone Scoop

BlackBerry is surely taking the world with Storm. This time it’s Verizon Wireless and Vodafone Group unveiling the BlackBerry Storm which will be available exclusive for Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. (9530 version) and Vodafone customers (9500 version) in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

BlackBerry Storm is the first touch-screen based BlackBerry smartphone that actually depresses ever so slightly when the screen is pressed that user distinctly feels the screen being pressed and released with a gentle “click”. BlackBerry Storm will support single-touch, multi-touch and gestures for intuitive and efficient application navigation. Just like in many new Nokia phones, BlackBerry Storm touch-screen can automatically switch between landscape mode and portrait mode.

The Storm features a 3.2 megapixel camera with variable zoom, a Built-in GPS support, 1GB of onboard memory storage and a microSD memory card slot.  The elegant Storm comes preloaded with DataViz Documents to Goapplicaton, and a media player that best plays multimedia files.

Here are you may find some additional details at pricing and availability: www.blackberry.com/storm, www.verizonwireless.com/storm or www.vodafone.co.uk/storm.

BlackBerry Storm