After numerous leaks, Research in Motion (RIM) finally announced the Blackberry 9500. It will be exclusively sold by Verizon in US, Vodafone in Europe & Telus in Canada. After the final specs were released a notable omission is the lack of Wi-fi in the Storm. That seems to be a big mistake on part of Blackberry to make an iPhone rival Touch Screen Smartphone without Wi-fi functionality. In present times, Wi-fi has become a must in High-end Smartphones & RIM's decision to not pack the 9500 with Wi-fi could hurt it in 9500's sales. Especially when Nokia has started to put Wi-fi in all of it's new N-Series & E-Series phones. In Windows Mobile world, almost all phones have Wi-fi in them. The decision is also confusing as the Blackberry 9000 Bold already has Wi-fi in it.

The Blackberry Storm 9500 will be sold through Vodafone networks and will be free on monthly plans of 35 GBP and up with an 18-month contract.The Blackberry Storm 9530 is the variant of the handset that will be sold in North America through Verizon & Telus. Along with the quad-band GSM and 2100Mhz UMTS support that the 9500 model has, it will also offer CDMA2000 1xEV-DO support. The 9500 Storm will be available for purchase soon.


Detailed Specs of Blackberry 9500 Storm :

• 3 Mega Pixel Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash
• 3.3 inch Touch Screen with resolution of 360 x 480 pixels
• True Haptics
• 3.5 mm headphone jack
• 624 Mhz CPU
• 192 MB Ram
• 3G, HSDPA & GPS
• Quad Band GSM
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Video player DivX/WMV/XviD/3gp
• Media player MP3/WMA/AAC+
• DataViz Document Viewer/Editor
• Micro SD card slot
• Blackberry Maps
• Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard
• BlackBerry OS
• 112.5 x 62.2 x 13.9 mm

RIM's Blackberry 9500 Storm's slides have leaked. The slides show the Storm's Qwerty Keypad, it's basic features and it's UI/OS in action. The Storm is the Touch Screen Phone from Blackberry & is scheduled to be offically launched this month. It has already appeared on German Vodafone site. The Storm features 3.25-inch display with a resolution of 360 x 480 pixels, quad-band GSM support, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5 mm headphone jack and a 3 megapixel auto focus camera. It's also running RIM's latest Blackberry OS which has Touch Support.

Detailed Specs of Blackberry 9500 Storm :

• 3 Mega Pixel Fixed Focus Camera with LED Flash
• 3.3 inch Touch Screen with resolution of 360 x 480 pixels
• True Haptics
• 3.5 mm headphone jack
• 624 Mhz CPU
• 192 MB Ram
• 3G, HSDPA, Wi-fi & GPS
• Quad Band GSM
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Video player DivX/WMV/XviD/3gp
• Media player MP3/WMA/AAC+
• DataViz Document Viewer/Editor
• Micro SD card slot
• Blackberry Maps
• Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard
• BlackBerry OS
• 112.5 x 62.2 x 13.9 mm

The numerous time leaked Blackberry 9500 Storm made an appearance on German Vodafone site. It has been leaked a number of times but it hasn't been officially announced by RIM, though Verizon & now Vodafone have put them on their respective sites. The 9500 Storm is the first Touch Screen Phone from RIM & features a 3.3 inch Touch Screen having a resolution of 360 x 480. It has tri-band 3G with HSDPA and Quad-band GSM support making it capable of global roaming. The 9500 Storm is running on a 624 MHz CPU and has 192 MB of RAM. It utilizes a new version of the BlackBerry OS, optimized for touchscreen input.

Some of the other extras include a built-in GPS (with A-GPS functionality), Wi-fi, microSD card slot with support for up to 8GB cards and a 3.5mm standard audio jack for plugging your own custom headphones. The 9500 Storm measures 112.5 x 62.2 x 13.9 mm and is also quite thin.

Storm's Touch Screen features True Haptics which offers physical response to user's input on the screen. It feels just like pressing a physical button and the screen actually pushes in when pressing. Along with that, the phone also vibrates a little to tell the user that the input has been recorded. As this stage there is no information about the pricing or the expected availability of the BlackBerry 9500 Storm. Still it appearing on Verizon & Vodafone sites almost simultaneously indicates that it's not too far from being officially launched. Watch out this space.


Detailed Specs of Blackberry 9500 Storm :

• 3 Mega Pixel Fixed Focus Camera with LED Flash
• 3.3 inch Touch Screen with resolution of 360 x 480 pixels
• True Haptics
• 3.5 mm headphone jack
• 624 Mhz CPU
• 192 MB Ram
• 3G, HSDPA, Wi-fi & GPS
• Quad Band GSM
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Video player DivX/WMV/XviD/3gp
• Media player MP3/WMA/AAC+
• DataViz Document Viewer/Editor
• Micro SD card slot
• Blackberry Maps
• Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard
• BlackBerry OS
• 112.5 x 62.2 x 13.9 mm

Blackberry 9500 Storm






Blackberry 9500 Storm User Interface

DivX package for Windows includes utilities, and documentation that you need to play DivX files, the DivX Pro Codec, DivX Player, DivX Web Player and the DivX Converter, providing all you need to create, play, manage and burn DivX videos.
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