Gen BlackBerry Touch-Screen Features New SurePress Technology, Built-in Wi-Fi, Among the Hundreds of Other Enhancements.
Milan, Italy and Waterloo, ON - Wind and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) introduced the BlackBerry® Storm2™ smartphone for customers in Italy.
The BlackBerry Storm2 is the second generation of RIM's innovative and award-winning touch-screen smartphone. The BlackBerry Storm2 significantly improves the BlackBerry® touch-screen platform with new technology and new features to let customers stay easily connected to the people, places and things that matter most.
New SurePress Technology
The BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone from introduces a new SurePress™ technology based on an electronic suspension system that provides the user with tactile feedback when the touch-screen is pressed. The new system responds equally to gentle pressure applied anywhere on the surface of the screen and makes clicking the display almost effortless. Typing on the smartphone's virtual keyboards is easier, more comfortable and more accurate. The new SurePress technology also allows the user 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.
The BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone from Wind features:
Hardware Features
•Smooth design and premium finish with sloped edges, chrome accents, glass lens and stainless steel backplate
•Large (3.25”), dazzling, high resolution 360 x 480 display at 184 ppi
•Capacitive touch-screen with integrated functions (Send, End, Menu, Escape) and new SurePress technology that makes clicking the display almost effortless
•3.2 MP camera with variable zoom, autofocus, flash and video recording
•256 MB of Flash memory
•2 GB of onboard memory storage and a microSD/SDHD slot with a 16 GB memory card memory card slot is expected to support 32 GB cards when available
•Premium and easy-to-access phone features, background noise suppression technology, loud distortion-free speakerphone and face detection (proximity sensor) that prevents accidental clicks and blanks the screen while the user is on the phone
•Media player for videos, pictures and music, plus support for BlackBerry Desktop Manager for both PCs and Macs, and BlackBerry® Media Sync for easily syncing iTunes® and Windows Media® Player music with the smartphone*
•A 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and dedicated volume controls
•Bluetooth® (2.1) with support for Secure Simple Pairing, hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits and other Bluetooth peripherals
•Built-in GPS for maps and other location-based applications, as well as photo geotagging
•UMTS/HSPA (2100Mhz), quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) networks
•Access to BlackBerry App World™, featuring a broad and growing catalog of mobile applications developed specifically for BlackBerry smartphones. Categories include games, entertainment, IM and social networking, news, weather, productivity and more. Applications developed for the original BlackBerry Storm are fully compatible with the BlackBerry Storm2
•BlackBerry® Internet Service and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support
•Removable, rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery that provides approximately 6 hours of talk time on 3G networks and 280 hours of standby time
BlackBerry OS 5
•More responsive experience and includes usability and visual enhancements such as inertial scrolling, spin boxes that make it easier to set dates and times, gradient shading on buttons and more use of animation
•Typing accuracy and selection have been significantly refined
•BlackBerry® Browser improved with faster JavaScript and CSS processing as well as support for Gears and BlackBerry Widgets
•Customers running BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 5 will gain the ability to:
◦Set follow-up Flags on the handset like they can in Microsoft® Office Outlook®
◦Manage Microsoft Exchange email folders (Add, Rename, Move, Delete) on the handset
◦Access remote files shares (Windows Shares); Save, View, Edit, and Email documents from remote file shares
◦Forward appointments and view calendar attachments on the handset
◦Benefit from wireless sync improvements for Contacts, including sync for multiple contact folders, personal Distribution Lists and contacts in Public/Shared folders
* Certain music files may not be supported, including files that contain digital rights management technologies.
The BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone (model 9520) will be available from Wind for 499€.
Tariff information
Wind subscription to BlackBerry® Internet Service offers unlimited email and internet for €12 per month. Additionally, special promotions are available for new Wind customers on application.
Until February 7th 2010, BlackBerry ® Internet Service will be free for:
•three months for customers with a new prepaid SIM
•up to 24 months, on selected tariffs, for customers who choose a new postpaid SIM.
Further details of Wind offers are available at www.wind.it
About Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.a.
Founded in 1997, Wind is one of the few European TLC operators offering integrated mobile, fixed-line and Internet services. In Italy, it is the third largest mobile operator, with 17,9 million customers, and the leading alternative operator in the fixed-line telephony market, with 2 million customers in ULL and 1,56 million broadband. Wind is also one of the main Italian Internet portals with www.libero.it and one of the largest internet service providers in Italy.
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