BlackBerry Storm 2

October 19th, 2009 Posted in Electronics Brands, Handphone

BlackBerry Storm 2 Release

It looks like Unkie Walt accidentally programmed his calendar to publish a combined preview of the Motorola CLIQ and the BlackBerry Storm 2 a little earlier than everyone else. Nothing particularly insightful on the CLIQ, but Mossy says RIM’s latest is a big improvement over the original Storm, mostly because of the revamped touchscreen, which provides “faster, smoother typing.”

Yep, that’s pretty much what we were expecting. Walt’s also high on the inclusion of WiFi and the portrait-mode keyboard, but ain’t nothing gonna make that BlackBerry browser any good, and the big guy says the touch interface still feels tacked to the rapidly-aging BlackBerry OS. So Walt, now that you’ve confirmed RIM and Verizon’s big holiday launch, what can you tell us about pricing and availability?

“Likely to appear in November at around $200,” you say? Thanks, buddy. You’re always so dependable.

BlackBerry Storm 2 Review

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a BlackBerry Storm 2 review, the sequel to the much-meh’d first version, which came out last year. While we saw some of the virtues of the original Storm’s slightly weird way of responding to your fingers, others apparently didn’t, and the Storm never went epic.

The Storm 2 with a revamped touchscreen that provides for “faster, smoother typing“, apparently fixes this problem. Another welcome feature is Wi-Fi, though the browser is said to be inferior to browsers on the iPhone, the Palm Pre, Android phones, and any other smartphone, really.

The WSJ says for $200 to expect the Storm 2 “likely” in November, but we can’t say we’ll be in line for one. Any BlackBerry users willing to give RIM a second chance on the Storm?

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