Introducing the New BlackBerry Storm 3

The BlackBerry Storm 3 comes hot on the heels of the BlackBerry Storm 2 9550 upgrade. Many
people thought there would be another Storm 2 upgrade after two upgrades so far but it seems the
guys at RIM have different ideas. Only rumoured and with only a few leaked photos and video, the
BlackBerry Storm 3 is stirring up quite a storm on smart phone forums with pundits laying both critical
acclaim and mudslinging in the wake of these rumours. However, whether this storm will shake the
smart phone market or simply be a storm in a tea cup is still anybody’s guess.

Looking very much like the BlackBerry Storm 2 9550, the Storm 3 comes with a full-faced touch
screen 3.7 inches in size. The curves and colour also follow its predecessor coming in with the typical
BlackBerry black with some great stylish curves. The 5MP camera delivers more quality than the
3.15MP of its predecessor. Not much has changed by way of the overall design and users can expect
the same feel of the Storm 2 on this baby.

The phone has 2G and 3G network capabilities with the former in the quad-band spectra. As noted,
the screen is a 3.7 inch TFT screen with Accelerometer and optical track-pad features for auto rotate.
You then have the typical unlimited phonebook entries and caller records. The internal memory
weighs in at 8GB with 512RAM and an expandable memory of up to 32GB on micoSD. Data
capabilities comprise GPRS, EDGE, 3G and WLAN with Bluetooth thrown in to sweeten the deal.
These are nevertheless not overly impressive as they fall way short of the data capabilities of other
smart phones such as the iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S. The phone runs on BlackBerry OS 6.0
with an HTML browser. It is worth noting though that it does have a USB port for microUSB v2.0. It
has no radio but has Java with a whole host of Java powered knickknacks such as BlackBerry Maps,
document editor, media player, and an organizer. PUSH email, MMS, email, IM and RSS are also
supported.

Compared to the BlackBerry Storm 2 9550, the Storm 3 does not carry EV-DO capability but carries
significantly more internal memory. In addition, the Storm 3 uses the latest version of the BlackBerry
OS which promises to be faster and more efficient. Compared to the iPhone 4 just recently released,
there are a host of differences. The iPhone 4 has a 16M colour display compared to the 65K of the
Storm 3. Touch screen capabilities of the iPhone 4 are also more advanced than the Storm 3.
Nevertheless, BlackBerry makes it easy with the easily available Java capability which for iPhone is
rather limiting.

The BlackBerry Storm 3 accessories expected include the BlackBerry Presenter, extra battery
charger, microUSB cable, BlackBerry Storm 3 cases, amongst others. These accessories are
anticipated to be similar to those of the Storm 2 although there are suggestions that some extra
BlackBerry Storm 3 accessories may be added to the collection.