October 26th, 2009
RIM BlackBerry Storm2 coming to Verizon on Oct. 28; $179
Verizon announced on Monday the official availability of the highly-anticipated BlackBerry Storm2, the successor to the ill-received BlackBerry Storm, Research in Motion’s first touchscreen handset.
The official price will be $179.99 after $100 mail-in rebate with a two-year contract.
As a reminder, here’s a full breakdown of how the Storm2 stacks up to its predecessor.
Key highlights:
- A 3.25-inch (360×480) capacitive SurePress touchscreen display (184 ppi)
- 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, 256MB of flash memory (double original Storm)
- 2GB onboard memory with microSDHC expansion (16GB card included)
- EV-DO Revision A; UMTS/HSPA (2100 MHz); and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks
- 3.5mm headset jack
- 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording
- built-in GPS
- Bluetooth 2.1
- 1400mAh battery rated for six hours of 3G
If you’re an owner of the first-generation Storm, RIM is also expected to roll out the BlackBerry OS 5.0 update for download, offering usability enhancements sought by users such as:
- Typing accuracy and selection improvements
- Usability and visual enhancements: inertial scrolling, spin boxes that make it easier to set dates and times, gradient shading on buttons, and more use of animation
- BlackBerry Browser is improved with faster JavaScript and CSS processing as well as support for Gears and BlackBerry Widgets
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 customers gain the ability to set follow-up flags, manage e-mail folders, access remote files (Windows Shares), forward appointments, view calendar attachments and more
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