Improved over the original, the BlackBerry Storm2 9550 is RIM’s second-generation touchscreen smartphone released for Verizon Wireless. While offering the equally powerful email and messaging features, the Storm2 brings users a number of significant enhancements, such as the updated BlackBerry OS, a better touch interface and Wi-Fi access.The strengths of the Storm2 begin with its enhanced screen display. The 3.25-inch 480x360-pixel capacitive touchscreen with 65k colors is equipped with the next-generation SurePress technology. It now not only allows for key rollover and faster typing but also multi-touch, meaning you can touch more than one part of the screen at once to select multiple items. Like before, there is a QWERTY keyboard in portrait or landscape mode depending on the phone’s orientation. In addition, it sports with a proximity sensor to prevent accidental clicks when you are taking calls.
The messaging capabilities are as impressive as usual. The Storm2 allows access up to ten POP3 or IMAP email accounts. With BlackBerry Enterprise Server supporting Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino or Novell GroupWise, it provides real-time corporate email delivery to enterprise users. Using the Blackberry Desktop Manager, synchronizing mails and messages on your smartphone with your PC or Mac. Moreover, DataViz Documents To Go is pre-installed for viewing and editing Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
For instant messaging, other than BlackBerry Messenger, the new Storm is preloaded with IM clients for AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo, Google Talk and ICQ. Text messaging in threaded view and multimedia messaging are onboard.
Another improvement the BlackBerry OS 5.0 brings to the device is its HTML browser. Apart from speed upgrade, the browser also allows real-time streaming protocol for you to stream videos from popular sites like YouTube, though it still lacks Flash support.
The Storm2 features a number of applications itself and you can find more from BlackBerry App World. For GPS navigation, you will get BlackBerry Maps with text-based turn-by-turn instructions and Verizon’s VZ Navigator with voice-guided directions. There are also download links for popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace and Flickr.
The Storm2 sports with a media player that supports an array of audio and video formats, such as MP3, AAC, WMA, MPEG4 and WMV. Using BlackBerry Media Sync, you can easily sync the Storm2 with iTune and Windows Media Player. The built-in 3.2-megapixel camera comes with LED flash, auto-focus, variable zoom and video recording capabilities.
As for the form factor, the Storm2 looks much alike its predecessor, measuring 4.43 by 2.45 by 0.55 inches and weighing 5.64 ounces. It includes 2GB of onboard memory and a microSD memory card slot that accepts up to 32GB. Other advanced features like dual-model functionality, 3G support, Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth 2.1, voice-activated dialing and a 3.5mm headphone jack are also offered.
The BlackBerry Storm2 9550 makes great strides by improving its system, screen display as well as core functions. If you are a business professional who loves touchscreen devices, you will definitely be delighted to lay your hands on the Storm2.
No comments:
Post a Comment