RIM’s BlackBerry devices always lived in a “protected environment” due to their excellent email service – if you wanted an email box, you got a BlackBerry.
Recent ventures saw RIM reaching out into the consumer and power user markets – which is an area where users demand more than just email. BrightHand covers this space for a long time, and has now gotten their hands onto a Storm 2.
Their reviewer was not particularly happy with the box:
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With its large and crisp touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera, sleek form factor, and a host of connectivity options, the BlackBerry Storm2 should be great. It packs upgraded performance, a tweaked user interface, enhanced operating system, and overall really works to make up for its previous generation’s shortcomings. It even includes Wi-Fi, a first for Verizon-branded Storms.
Despite all of this, the end product is somehow lacking. The Storm2 makes up for its predecessor’s shortcomings, but given the competition of large, touchscreen-based smartphones on Verizon, and the hordes of apps available for its prime target competitor, it’s hard to give this BlackBerry a solid recommendation.
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I have to openly admit that I never was too warm to the idea of a touchscreen BlackBerry without a QWERTY keyboard – further information can be had below:
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=15830&review=RIMM+BlackBerry+OS+Storm2+Storm+9550+Verizon
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