Attention Verizon Wireless customers. If you happen to be thinking of replacing your current smartphone handset – and you have a spare $179.99 USD burning a hole in your pocket – then the concept of consumer-based technology temptation just took on a whole new perspective.
Whipping up a frenzy this coming Wednesday. Image: RIM.
Specifically, Canadian smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) has joined forces with American telecommunications giant Verizon Wireless to offer up the tantalisingly revamped BlackBerry Storm 2 (9550).
Scheduled to hit Verizon online stores on October 28, RIM’s second-generation Storm is looking to cancel out the somewhat negative critical reception that met its predecessor and arrives sporting the new BlackBerry 5.0 operating system, which provides “hundreds of hardware and software enhancements” for the handset’s touch-screen delivery.
Some of those new additions include SurePress “clickable” screen technology for an even more tactile user experience, along with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, which was inexplicable missing from the original Storm smartphone.
Core specifications include a generous 3.25-inch high-resolution and capacitive touch screen (480 x 360), high-speed 3G network access, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), 256MBs of internal Flash memory, 2GBs of onboard data storage, memory expansion via microSD and SDHD, and a 16GB memory card that’s available out of the box.
Other aspects attributed to the new BlackBerry Storm 2 include a 3.2 mega pixel, camera, an onboard multimedia player, an enhanced BlackBerry Browser, face detection, background noise suppression, BlackBerry Desktop Manager, Bluetooth, integrated GPS navigation, access to BlackBerry App World, and support from Verizon services V CAST Music with Rhapsody, Mobile Broadband Connect, and VZ Navigator.
The Storm 2 from Verizon comes attached to a $179.99 USD price tag after completion of a $100 USD mail-in rebate and a willingness to sign on the dotted line for a mandatory two-year data plan (starting at $29.99 USD per month).
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