Blackberry 9500 Storm appears on German Vodafone Site

The numerous time leaked Blackberry 9500 Storm made an appearance on German Vodafone site. It has been leaked a number of times but it hasn't been officially announced by RIM, though Verizon & now Vodafone have put them on their respective sites. The 9500 Storm is the first Touch Screen Phone from RIM & features a 3.3 inch Touch Screen having a resolution of 360 x 480. It has tri-band 3G with HSDPA and Quad-band GSM support making it capable of global roaming. The 9500 Storm is running on a 624 MHz CPU and has 192 MB of RAM. It utilizes a new version of the BlackBerry OS, optimized for touchscreen input.

Some of the other extras include a built-in GPS (with A-GPS functionality), Wi-fi, microSD card slot with support for up to 8GB cards and a 3.5mm standard audio jack for plugging your own custom headphones. The 9500 Storm measures 112.5 x 62.2 x 13.9 mm and is also quite thin.

Storm's Touch Screen features True Haptics which offers physical response to user's input on the screen. It feels just like pressing a physical button and the screen actually pushes in when pressing. Along with that, the phone also vibrates a little to tell the user that the input has been recorded. As this stage there is no information about the pricing or the expected availability of the BlackBerry 9500 Storm. Still it appearing on Verizon & Vodafone sites almost simultaneously indicates that it's not too far from being officially launched. Watch out this space.

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