US: Blackberry's Storm set to challenge Apple's iPhone
Posted by Katherine Thompson on October 8, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Blackberry is set to release a new challenger to Apple's iPhone into the market. The new product, called "Storm", will be released in the U.S., Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand "next month" through Verizon and Vodafone.
The initial reports on the device are positive, the touchscreen feature has received rave reviews. As with the iPhone, it is sensitive to the bioelectric pulses in your fingertips. Furthermore, it has a very delicate touch and if you want to select something you have to press down on that screen until it clicks. As a result, Wired report, "there's no ambiguity to button presses". This new system is called ClickThrough.
One negative is the lack of WiFi, however, it does have a dual-mode smartphone running on both GSM and CDMA networks.
It has a high-resolution 480 x 360 pixel color display, Transmissive TFT LCD, the font size is user selectable and the screen is light sensing.
Furthmore, the Storm is suitable for text editing, so the user can access word and excel on the move.
Source: IntoMobile and Wired
The initial reports on the device are positive, the touchscreen feature has received rave reviews. As with the iPhone, it is sensitive to the bioelectric pulses in your fingertips. Furthermore, it has a very delicate touch and if you want to select something you have to press down on that screen until it clicks. As a result, Wired report, "there's no ambiguity to button presses". This new system is called ClickThrough.
One negative is the lack of WiFi, however, it does have a dual-mode smartphone running on both GSM and CDMA networks.
It has a high-resolution 480 x 360 pixel color display, Transmissive TFT LCD, the font size is user selectable and the screen is light sensing.
Furthmore, the Storm is suitable for text editing, so the user can access word and excel on the move.
Source: IntoMobile and Wired
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