the Storm has arrived

October 8, 2008 at 10:40 am Leave a comment

Touch, then gently push – that’s the statement RIM is making with the BlackBerry Storm, its first ever touch screen smartphone.

So how does it feel – unlike conventional smartphones, the Storm has an innovative haptic display that subtly responds like a physical keyboard – by letting the user push the screen down slightly till a “click” is heard.

Looking to appeal beyond its core business user base, it comes with integrated GPS, includes a host of multimedia capabilities, and comes pre-loaded with instant messaging clients (AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo Messenger, GTalk & ICQ) as well as popular social networking services (My Space, Facebook & Flickr).

Pretty and powerful, it’s a refreshing change and could help recast the BlackBerry.