BlackBerry Storm 9520 Review
Joining the touchscreen fray has been a bit of a challenge for RIM and the BlackBerry. While the first Storm model couldn’t live up to the performance of some of the latest mobile phones with touchscreen technology, the new Blackberry Storm 2 9520 aims to be an improvement.
Pros
The Storm 2 feels solid and looks chic. Curved edges, metallic accents, and a more sophisticated key layout give the phone an overall elegant appearance.
The clickable touchscreen marks a vast improvement over the first BlackBerry Storm. The Storm 2’s capacitive technology feels significantly more reactive, and the typing experience is enjoyable.
Email functionality is in line with the latest mobile phones. The touchscreen makes scrolling through emails super fast and easy, and the rapid portrait to landscape rotation is a marked improvement over the Storm 2’s predecessor. There’s also 256MB of internal memory included and support for a 2GB microSD card.
Cons
The touchscreen on the Storm 2 still seems to be lacking. The clickable screen interface can be frustrating, particularly for users familiar with other touchscreen phones.
The media suite is also a bit thin. RIM has been putting a lot more focus on developing other BlackBerry mobile phones, so apps for the touchscreen line are disappointingly few. Hopefully this is something that will remedy itself in the future.
Conclusion
The Storm 2 is an adequately refined version of the original BlackBerry Storm. While users won’t get an iPhone experience, there are still plenty of features and performance benefits that will help this model stand up favourably, when users compare mobile phones.
