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Blackberry Storm2 Arrives in India
Techtree News Staff, Mar 22, 2010 1747 hrs ISTCan be yours for Rs. 31,990
Almost two years after the original BlackBerry Storm was launched in India, RIM has announced the launch of the second iteration of the device in the country in the form of the Blackberry Storm2.
According to RIM, "the second generation of RIM's innovative and award-winning touch-screen smartphone, the BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone significantly improves the BlackBerry touch-screen platform with enhanced technology and new features". The Storm2 boasts of RIM's SurePress technology and comes laden with BlackBerry OS 5, the latest version of the BlackBerry smartphone operating system. As for SurePress technology, it is nothing but a technology that enables the screen to provide tactile feedback to the fingers while using the touchscreen. According to RIM, SurePress makes typing on the smartphone's virtual keyboards is easier, more comfortable and accurate.
On the hardware scheme of things, let us see how much of an upgrade the Storm2 really is over its predecessor. The Storm2 has a 3.2 inch display with a 360 x 480 resolution. It used to be bedazzling say two years ago. But not any longer.
It has a capacitive touchscreen and integrates functions (Send, End, Menu, Escape) and new SurePress technology that makes clicking the display practically effortless. It has a decent 3.2 megapixel camera that supports video recording as well. The phone boasts of 256MB of flash memory and comes with a microSD card slot as well. It supports cards of upto 16GB Music buffs can relax as the phone sports a 3.5 mm audio jack as well. Bluetooth 2.1 is supported and so is GPS for maps, location-based applications, as well as photo geotagging. It comes with access to BlackBerry App World for downloading apps. All applications designed for the Storm1 are supported by the Storm2. It has a removable, rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery that provides approximately 6 hours of talk time on 3G networks and 280 hours of standby time.
As for the OS, the phone comes loaded with Blackberry OS 5 which gets a lot of feature updates. As listed below:
The BlackBerry Storm can be yours for a princely sum of Rs.31,990.
According to RIM, "the second generation of RIM's innovative and award-winning touch-screen smartphone, the BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone significantly improves the BlackBerry touch-screen platform with enhanced technology and new features". The Storm2 boasts of RIM's SurePress technology and comes laden with BlackBerry OS 5, the latest version of the BlackBerry smartphone operating system. As for SurePress technology, it is nothing but a technology that enables the screen to provide tactile feedback to the fingers while using the touchscreen. According to RIM, SurePress makes typing on the smartphone's virtual keyboards is easier, more comfortable and accurate.
On the hardware scheme of things, let us see how much of an upgrade the Storm2 really is over its predecessor. The Storm2 has a 3.2 inch display with a 360 x 480 resolution. It used to be bedazzling say two years ago. But not any longer.
It has a capacitive touchscreen and integrates functions (Send, End, Menu, Escape) and new SurePress technology that makes clicking the display practically effortless. It has a decent 3.2 megapixel camera that supports video recording as well. The phone boasts of 256MB of flash memory and comes with a microSD card slot as well. It supports cards of upto 16GB Music buffs can relax as the phone sports a 3.5 mm audio jack as well. Bluetooth 2.1 is supported and so is GPS for maps, location-based applications, as well as photo geotagging. It comes with access to BlackBerry App World for downloading apps. All applications designed for the Storm1 are supported by the Storm2. It has a removable, rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery that provides approximately 6 hours of talk time on 3G networks and 280 hours of standby time.
As for the OS, the phone comes loaded with Blackberry OS 5 which gets a lot of feature updates. As listed below:
- Typing accuracy and selection have been significantly refined
- BlackBerry Browser improved with faster JavaScript and CSS processing as well as support for Gears and BlackBerry Widgets
- Customers running BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 will gain the ability to:
- Set follow-up Flags on the handset like they can in Microsoft Office Outlook
- Manage Microsoft Exchange email folders (Add, Rename, Move, Delete) on the handset
- Access remote files shares (Windows Shares); Save, View, Edit, and Email documents from remote file shares
- Forward appointments and view calendar attachments on the handset
- Benefit from wireless sync improvements for Contacts, including sync for multiple contact folders, personal Distribution Lists and contacts in Public/Shared folders
The BlackBerry Storm can be yours for a princely sum of Rs.31,990.
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