And it's out. The BlackBerry Storm2 just made its first official carrier appearance with Vodafone. The promising followup to the much maligned BlackBerry Storm will be free on pay-monthly contracts from £35 on up. Specs include a 3.25-inch 360 x 480 pixel capacitive SurePress (
new and improved) touchscreen display, 802.11b/g WiFi and 2100MHz UMTS/HSPA data, 256MB of flash memory (double that of the original Storm), 2GB of onboard memory with microSDHC expansion, 3.5-mm standard headset jack, 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording, built-in GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, and 1400mAh battery giving about 6 hours of 3G talk. BlackBerry OS 5 too, of course, when it lands on October 15th in the UK, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, and Spain -- France, Italy, and South Africa in time for Christmas.
Update: Now on official RIM page too with a
detailed comparison against the original Storm.
[Thanks,
James]
Read -- Press Release
Read -- Pre-order
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
VZW @ Oct 15th 2009 12:15PM
Does anyone else notice that it says Qualcomm 3G CDMA on it? Only CDMA phones say that...
Blair @ Oct 15th 2009 12:38PM
Nice catch.
The Storm2 9550 is:
Quad-band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM®/GPRS/EDGE networks
Single-band: 2100 MHz UMTS/HSPA networks
Dual-band: 800/1900/ MHz CDMA/Ev-DO Rev A networks
while the Storm2 9520 is:
Quad-band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM®/GPRS/EDGE networks
Single-band: 2100 MHz UMTS/HSPA networks
This should be a 9520 since it's Vodafone. Maybe they used a 9550 for the promo shots instead? Who knows.