RIM's new phones by Claudia Sonea

Research In Motion Ltd. is well known for the BlackBerry brand and it is the strongest rival that Apple has when it comes to cell phones. In the last quarter their profits were very close (6.1 RIM's profit and 6.9 Apple's), therefore RIM thought to release another three BlackBerrys (BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Bold 900, and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 822o) that should turn the balance more into their favor. Will RIM succeed?
Let's have a look at the touch-screen BlackBerry Storm which is supposed to be the main rival of Apple's iPhone 3G and the first touch-screen of the brand. It was released on 14 November in UK and 21 in US having as carriers Vodafone, Verizon Wireless, Telus, Bell Canada. Yet this is not that important, what matters is the screen- 3.25" HVGA 480x360 Multi-touch capable of up to 65,536 colors with SurePressâ„¢ technology. The operating system is BlackBerry OS 4.7; the central processing unit is 528 MHz Qualcomm processor on Verizon model, and 624 MHz Marvell Intel XScale on Vodafone model; the memory is 128 MB Flash, 1GB onboard storage and a memory card. In addition it has stereo Bluetooth and a 3.2 megapixel camera that can record videos. It all sounds good in theory, but users and reviewers were quite hush with it and complained about the sluggish interface, lock-ups, memory leaks and crashes if you try multiple tasks at once.
BlackBerry Bold 900 uses AT&T's 3G network or WiFi, has GPS capabilities, stereo Bluetooth, great screen resolution, just like the Storm, but no touching screen, slow in taking commands and other minor faults. BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 is not that good as the other two models, but it comes in handy if you are making a transition from a traditional one to a touch-screen cell phone. Now it is your turn to check them out and tell us your opinion.



related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_hi_te/tec_tech_test_blackberrys

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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