Research In Motion (RIM) has introduced the BlackBerry Storm 2 smartphone for customers in seven European countries as well as SA.
According to RIM, the BlackBerry Storm 2 significantly improves the BlackBerry touch-screen platform with new technology and features.
Customers in the UK and Ireland, France, Italy and SA will be able to buy the smartphone in time for Christmas, says the company.
RIM adds that the Storm 2 also features the BlackBerry OS 5, which evolves the BlackBerry touch-screen platform with hundreds of hardware and software enhancements.
The Storm 2 smartphone (model 9520) features new SurePress technology, based on an electronic system that provides the user with tactile feedback when the touch-screen is pressed, notes the company.
The new system, it says, responds equally to gentle pressure applied anywhere on the surface of the screen.
SurePress technology allows users to type a letter with one thumb even while their other thumb may still be touching or resting on another letter, enabling faster typing and multi-key actions such as Shift or Alt-key combinations, RIM states.
The hardware features include a 3.25-inch high resolution 360 x 480 display, the capacitive touch-screen with SurePress technology, a 3.2MP camera with variable zoom, autofocus, flash and video recording, 2GB onboard memory storage, and a microSD/SDHD memory card slot that supports up to 16GB cards.
Boosted functions
The BlackBerry browser has been improved with faster JavaScript and CSS processing as well as support for Gears and BlackBerry widgets, says RIM.
The company adds that customers running BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 will be able set follow-up flags on the handset like they can in Microsoft Office Outlook, manage Microsoft Exchange e-mail folders, access and edit remote files shares, forward appointments and view calendar attachments on the handset. There are also wireless sync improvements for contacts, including sync for multiple contact folders, personal distribution lists and contacts in public and shared folders.
Pricing, says RIM, will be announced by the individual operators within the various countries in due time.
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