Gadget Of The Week: BlackBerry Storms Into Touchscreen Age
Oy - it's been a rough week, so I'm just now getting around to some Gadget of the Weekage, but this week's nominee is no surprise: the just-revealed BlackBerry Storm, AKA Thunder, AKA the touchscreen BlackBerry. And while most of RIM's keypad-happy enterprise customers are most likely not drooling over the handset, which will be available by the holiday season - with pricing information to come - RIM has to keep up with the Joneses Apples.
But the Storm's touchscreen is unlike any we've seen, using RIM's ClickThrough technology that lies beneath the display: it gives you tactile feedback, which most certainly will appeal to QWERTY-fans. Turning virtual buttons into actual buttons sounds like a feat, and it's something I've heard tech fans gabbing about for ages.
In other aspects the Storm presents well: a 3.25" half-VGA 480x320 screen, MicroSD slot, HTML browser without Glash, Bluetooth, GPS, and updated BlackBerry OS 4.7. 1GB onboard memory and support for multiple audio/video formats as well as a 3.2 MP camera. Missing are WiFi and the price point - and it's the latter which will make or break the Storm.
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Posted to Gadget of the Week, Hot Stuff on 8 October 2008
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