BlackBerry Creates a Storm
The smartphone, the Blackberry storm, will be available later this year in selected markets. The storm resembles the iPhone but its colour touchscreen differs in that it is “clickable”. The screen depresses slightly when touched like a typewriter key.
RIM ( maker of the Blackberry) president Mike Lazaridis described the touchscreen as a “truly tactile touch interface” which “ solve the long standing problem associated with typing on traditional touchscreen”.
User Navigate on the touchscreen by using their finger like a cursor, scrolling, highlighting panning and zooming and clicking on selections. Other futures of the storm include wireless e-mail through high speed 3G mobile broadband networks, an HTML web browser which allows audio and video streaming and SMS.MMS and IM messaging.
It also features a media player,a 3.2 megapixel camera,a video camera and GPS capability along with Black berry maps. RIM did not provide a price for the phone or release date except to say it would be available by the Christmas holiday season - AFP