Blackberry Storm
The original Blackberry Storm was launched in late 2008 and has quickly lost no time in dividing opinion. Mostly, people either loved or hated its innovative SurePress ‘floating’ touch screen, which made crystal clear the distinction between a brush a press by requiring you to press the glass screen cover for it to make contact and access functions.
With the Blackberry Storm2 9520 the floating screen has been retained and updated, and Blackberry’s maker’s RIM would have us believe that it’s better than before. To push interest beyond the the new Storm has also got Wi-Fi and more Flash memory, plus a little bit of social network integration.
Unusually for a next-generation phone, the Storm2 is actually slightly bigger than its predecessor, though there’s not much in it. At 112.5 x 62.2 x 13.95mm it’s gained .5mm in length and thickness and at 160g it’s 5g heavier. The new screen looks much the same at first glance, but sits closer to the edge of the casing, so there’s less room for it to collect dust and grime in the corners, as the original Storm was prone to.
The handset is a little less blocky in appearance, the original’s strident chrome striping having been toned down a bit, and the buttons on the sides (volume rocker, camera shutter, programmable voice notes button) now all sport Blackberry’s generic black rubberised plastic coating.
Otherwise, it looks pretty much identical to its ancestor, with micro USB and 3.5mm headphone slots, touch sensitive power/lock and mute buttons on top and the customary row of buttons along the bottom (call start and stop, back and menu). Rather than sitting below as hard buttons, these functions are incorporated into the screen.
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