Following Vodafone’s Oct. 15 announcement, Verizon Wireless announced that it, too, will offer Research In Motion’s Blackberry Storm2 smartphone beginning Oct. 28. The smartphone will be priced, after a $100 mail-in rebate, at $179.99 with a two-year contract.
The Storm2 is a fully touch-screen device with a 3.25-inch high-resolution display with a resolution of 480 by 360 pixels and 184 pixels per inch. It offers 3G, 802.11 b/g and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, as well as voice calling in 220 countries, data access in 185 and 3G in 80 of those. It’s compatible with EV-DO Rev. A, 2100MHz UMTS/HSPA and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks, and it features SurePress technology, which is said to make the experience of typing on the touchscreen both easy and very much like typing on a true keyboard.
The original Storm, RIM’s first touch-screen device, was roundly criticized, and in response RIM not only added the Wi-Fi connectivity but improved SurePress, threw in a 2GB memory card and updated the Storm 2 to BlackBerry OS 5.0, which is said to offer better typing accuracy, usability and visual enhancements and more use of animation.
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