The BlackBerry Storm 9500 has been expected for a long time and now finally it has been announced. Storm is also known as Thunder and it does have a lot of great features, like the touchscreen, EV-DO, GPS, Blackberry OS 4.7. The Storm 9500 is not available yet, but should be released in December, for the holiday season and it should be priced low, with a Verizon contract.

Fortunately, the Blackberry Storm has probably the greatest touchscreen of them all, because when you touch it, you really push the display, like a normal button. The technology is called ClickThrough and currently is exclusive for the Blackberry Storm 9500.

When writing text messages, you can hold the phone in landscape mode and use the QWERTY keyboard, else you have the QWERTY keyboard available. Fortunately, the phone will figure by itself if you hold it in portrait or landscape mode and switch keyboards, also the keys will glow when pushed.

The display is a bit better than Blackberry Bold’s, with a 480×360 resolution and 65,000 colors. The Storm features a 3.5mm standard headphone jack, which is great, has four short keys: Talk, End, Back and the Blackberry menu. On the back it features a microSD memory card slot.

Storm 9500’s sizes are 4.4×2.4×0.5 inches and only weight 5.6 ounces, which is not very much for a smartphone with it’s capabilities.

The Blackberry Storm is probably one of the greatest smartphones on the market ( not yet ), if not the best. It has lots of features, like the one that switches between CDMA and GSM networks automatically, without changing the phone number, which offer international roaming. Also, the Storm sports a full HTML internet browser, that unfortunately doesn’t support Flash and supports Cast Music and Mobile TV, the services from Verizon.

Probably it’s biggest lack is the WiFi, I really can’t figure out why didn’t they include it. Though it tries to fill this gap with other connectivity options, like Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo headsets support, dial-up networking, GPS, and Blackberry Maps.

The Blackberry Storm 9500 will run Blackberry’s OS 4.7, the latest version, which is great, becayse it comes with supports for a plentitude of email accounts, Blackberry Enterprise, Lotus notes, IMAP4, POP3, Microsoft Exchange and more.

It features 128MB of flash memory and 1GB of integraded memory, which can be expanded via the microSD / SDHC memory card slot to up to 16GB.

Until now, Blackberry has been known for it’s business devices, but this one tries to attract all kinds of users, from teen to business and music fans, because it features a Media Sync software, that supports a plentitude of file formats, like MP3, WMA, AAC, MPEG4, WMV and H.264. Also the Media Sync can synchronize with iTunes. On the other side, it features a 3.2 megapixel camera, with flash, auto-focus and video recording capabilities.

The Blackberry Storm will come preloaded with IM clients and social networking applications, like Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live, AOL, ICQ, Facebook, Myspace and Flickr, but you can always download more via the Blackberry App Center.

Storm would probably be one of the best smartphones, but it does lack WiFi and it’s a must for today’s smartphones. But if you don’t need it, then probably Blackberry Storm 9500 is the ideal smartphone for you.

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