BlackBerry has hit the American market with the second wave of its “Storm“.  As expected, no signs of this gale are to be seen here. Hence, us poor Indians will probably have to make do with a preview, rather than a full review. The Storm2 9550 has few upgrades over its predecessor, the Storm 9500. Don’t remember that phone? Well, does the name Lewis Hamilton ring a bell? Some popular Storm users are Formula One race driver Lewis Hamilton, as well as web celebrity and amateur comedian Barack Obama.

Anyway, we were talking about the Storm2. Unfortunately, this device hardly has anything new or exciting over its predecessor. That explains my rambling in this paragraph — I’m paid by the word, you see. And oh, if you still haven’t remembered the Storm ad with Hamilton in it, here it is for your viewing pleasure:
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Are you waiting to get your hands on a BlackBerry Storm. Themes4BB have come up with an awesome Storm theme for your Curve and Pearl (All models). The theme is 100% customisable so you can set your icons to what ever you like on your home screen. The theme is very clean, crisp and user-friendly. The only small ‘issue’ is that because the current BlackBerry’s have smaller screens than the Storm it doesn’t leave much space for a user-made wallpaper to shine through. This theme cost $6.99. If you don’t know what a Blackberry Storm is read this
Source: Crackberry

Designed to satisfy the needs of both consumers and business customers, the BlackBerry Storm smartphone combines the powerful communications features, global connectivity and personal productivity advantages of the BlackBerry platform with a revolutionary touch-screen technology that enhances the touch interface and enables easy and precise typing. The Storm comes with an innovative touch-screen that actually depresses ever so slightly when the screen is pressed. The user can feel the screen being pressed and released with a gentle “click,” similar to the feeling of a key on a physical keyboard.
Source:RIM
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The new Pearl Flip 8220 from blackberry is probably the most full featured flip phone Blackberry has launched yet. It combines the design of Pearl that we know and love into a sleek chrome finish flip phone. The new Blackberry features two high resolution displays, a cool QWERTY keypad, not to mention its awesome pearl scroll ball, voice dialing, support for MP3 ringtones, background noise cancellation, media playback, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 support, 2 Megapixel camera with flash and video recording and MicroSD with up to 16GB support. But if you think your battery life has to suffer for all these features, think again! The Flip comes with a 900maHr battery that can provide 4 hours of talk-time or over 14 days of standby time. A detailed list of feature can be found in the official press release after the jump.
Web link: Blackberry PearlFlip
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