Blackberry has unveiled a new phone for Verizon Wireless. Verizon is selling this phone with their different packages to its customer. Last Friday on November 21 2008 Verizon has began to sell this phone at the price of $199.99 for two years commitment. It is expected that this phone may be a hot product and lucrative cellular phone for Verizon which will help to grow its subscriber rapidly.

The second-largest U.S. wireless carrier, reported long lines and sellouts for the new price of Black Berry Storm smart phone. Price is little bit higher than Google phone. Some East Coast stores drew lines of as many as 150 people, with customers showing up as early as 5:30 a.m., spokeswoman said. More stores may sell out in other time zones as the day goes on, she said. Customers who don’t get a phone Friday can place an order and receive it in four to five days.

The device, designed to compete with Apple’s bestselling iPhone, has a media playerThe RIM Black Berry Storm features an innovative touch screen that provides tactile feedback to confirm your selection. The Storm offers dual-mode functionality for world-roaming capabilities as well as EV-DO Rev and UMTS/HSDPA support. Other highlights include GPS and a 3.2-megapixel camera.

Like the iPhone and the G1, the Storm contains an accelerometer which is meant to rotate the screen between portrait and landscape mode depending on how one is holding the device.

The Storm also supports texting and MMS, and comes with AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, and BlackBerry Messenger.

Ha, take that iPhone fans — the Storm actually allows you to copy and paste text.

In the US, the Storm operates on Verizon’s CDMA-based network, but it also contains radios that will function internationally, supporting quad-band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks and single-band: 2100 MHz UMTS/HSPA networks. It also includes GPS and Bluetooth functionality. The Storm’s 480×360 screen is perfectly nice, and video playback was more than acceptable.

The Storm will also work with Verizon’s V CAST Music with Rhapsody subscription service, which for $14.95 a month provides access to a five-million song library. Initially, you’ll need to connect your Storm to a PC in order to sync your music, but expect over-the-air downloads down the line.

The Storm includes all of the basic calling features, as well as voice-activated dialing, and, best of all, visual voicemail.

The Storm has 1GB of on-board memory, and another 128MB of Flash memory. The phone also ships with an external 8GB microSDHC card.

The storm’s standby battery life is 15 days, talktime is 5.5hours.

Verizon’s has many plans with this phone but you have to pay extra for those services. Some of those services such as Email and web services charge is $29.99 per month, data only plan $49.99, Nationwide email and for remotely access for data sharing fee is $99.99, Corporate email and voice plans $49.99, Global data plan $20, Global data and voice plan $64.99, pay as you go data use $20.48/MB.

At a glance we can see the major characteristics of storm:

* Size (L x W x D): 112.5mm x 62.2 mm x 13.95 mm
* Weight (battery included): 155g
* Ringtones: 32 polyphonic – MIDI, MP3
* Video Format Support: MPEG4 H.263, MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.264 (encoding and decoding 30fps), WMV
* Audio Format Support: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus
* Bluetooth: Bluetooth v2.0; Mono/Stereo Headset, Handsfree, Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP), and Serial Port Profile Supported. Bluetooth Stereo Audio (A2DP/AVCRP), DUN
* Headset: 3.5mm stereo headset capable
* USB Port: Enables charging and high-speed data synchronization via USB “A” to micro-USB “B” cable
* Power Adapter: +5V DC/500 mA AC power adapter, with interchangeable, location-specific plugs
* Network Support: Dual-Band: 800/1900 MHz CDMA/EV-DO Rev A networks; Quad-Band: 850 / 900 / 1800 /1900MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks; Single-Band: 2100 MHz UMTS/HSPA networks EV-DO Rev A networks.
* Camera: 3.2 megapixel camera
* Battery: Li-on, standby 15 days, talktime 5.5 hrs
* Internet and web browsing: Yes
* Roaming facility: Available
* memory: 1Giga byte,128MB Flash memory
* Display: 480×360
* Keyboard: Sure Type and QUERTY Keyboard
* GPS: Available

Disadvantages: The Storm’s SurePress touch screen takes some acclimation, and the onscreen keyboard is a bit cramped. The smartphone can be sluggish, particularly the accelerometer and multimedia applications. Speakerphone quality was a bit chopp.Unfortunately, the one thing it’s missing is a big one — WiFi capability.

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