The Storm is here! RIM has finally brought their highly anticipated touchscreen BlackBerry, the 9500, to the country and a soft launch was held today at the Vodafone office here in Mumbai. The handset was demo-ed at the event and looked every bit as good as the images we carried so far.
RIM’s BlackBerry’s Storm 9500 is equipped with the following features –
- 3.25-inch TFT SurePress touchscreen with a resolution of 360 x 480 (184ppi) pixels and 65k colors with an accelerometer for screen rotation
- 1GB internal memory with microSD card support and a 1GB microSD card bundled
- Support for 3G (HSDPA), GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP/AVRCP)) and USB v2.0
- GPS with A-GPS support and Geotagging for Blackberry Maps (not available for India yet) and Google Maps (Preloaded)
- DataViz Documents to Go
- JAVA Support
- 3 megapixel AF camera with flash
- 3.5mm earphone socket
The Storm is priced at Rs. 27, 990 and will be available at select Vodafone outlets only from January 15th 2009.
Though I may not use WiFi all the time, it was definitely a good feature that can't miss any mobile phones now a days.
URBANEYE