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October 26, 2009

RIM BlackBerry Storm2 review

The BlackBerry Storm 2 is RIM's second touchscreen smartphone aimed at the iPhone market. (Updated October 26 2009.)

Updated, January 7, 2010:

In October 2008, RIM launched a touchscreen BlackBerry smartphone that fell short of the iPhone beater it had hoped for.

It was too large and heavy and we weren't convinced by the way the screen physically shifted with our every touch.

We could see what RIM was trying to do - namely, create a touchscreen handset that gave something back in response - but the need to press hard to enter every character made typing slow going.

For the Storm2, RIM has rethought the unresponsive screen, adding sensor pads that recognise nuances of touch and offer a degree of affirmative feedback. Typing is therefore a little faster.

BlackBerry Storm 2 review

Overall, navigation is faster. And the Storm2's slightly smaller, lighter design, integrating hardware keys into the main 3.5in touchscreen area and losing the weird, rocking display, makes it less clunky to carry around than its predecessor.

The Storm2 offers intelligent, threaded communication, so you can see who and from which applications incoming messages and conversation threads originate.

Solid business communication and connections are the BlackBerry's bread and butter and, as always, these are top-notch.

Business credentials sorted, the Storm goes on to make the most of that generous screen with beautiful depth of colour and crisp display when playing videos and a media player that supports multiple music, photo and video formats.

The web browser remains a little off the superlative execution of the iPhone, but the Storm2 serves up the real web with acceptably fast load times.

The 3.2Mp camera has a flash and 5x zoom, and you can name photos as you save them or MMS them straight to friends.

Aside from the iPhone, the BlackBerries are the only smartphones to offer significant numbers of apps. There are already several hundred: some frivolous, and some functional. These are searchable and can be organised into folders out the way.

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RIM (BlackBerry) BlackBerry Storm 2 scored:
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The 2 most helpful reviews based on 7 reviews:

24 Nov 2009 Anonymous verified purchaser

7

Good Points

Very user friendly. As a organiser does everything you want, from managing day-to-day task to keeping track of larger events during a month. Touch screen is fantastic to use and easy to get use to. Copy and paste function very useful and very good on the application side.

Bad Points

Battery life. Freezes sometimes. Not enough on board memory which should have due to type of phone it is. Bluetooth is very difficult to use cause cannot receive things from other phones like contacts or even pictures.

08 Dec 2009 Simon

9

Good Points

Screen quality, touch interface, battery life

Bad Points

Only negative is auto rotate feature sometime rotates when you don't want it to.

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