New Details Emerge About The Storm 2 AKA BlackBerry 9550

The BlackBerry Storm is the first RIM touchscreen smartphone, and it was a success despite being full of bugs, glitches, and other stuff that annoys users. The BlackBerry Storm 2 was rumored and pictured quite a while ago, and we know it will be out soon. The Storm 2 will be probably be what the original Storm should have been: a good smartphone. One of my colleagues has the Storm and he is deeply unsatisfied with it, and he said that he cannot for the Storm 2 to come out.

Well, here are some new details about the second-gen Storm: the smartphone will be called BlackBerry 9550, while the AT&T/Rogers 3G Storm will be called BlackBerry 9520. Like expected the BlackBerry 9550 will go to Verizon, while the 9520 to AT&T in the US, Rogers in Canada, and Vodafone in Europe.

The BlackBerry 9550 will feature CDMA 1xRTT/EVDO Rev. A, Quad-band GSM/EDGE, 2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA, WiFi 802.11b/g, 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus, 480 x 360 resolution capacitive touchscreen, and BlackBerry OS 5.0.

Probably the biggest drawbacks of the original Storm are the buggy and unreliable OS, but this should be fixed with the upcoming BlackBerry OS 5.0, and the SurePress touchscreen. Although many enjoy the SurePress, there are more who hate it and they should be. A capacitive touchscreen can’t be compared with anything, and should be welcomed by everybody. As you probably knew and saw from the leaked pictures of the Storm 2 that RIM has dropped the four hard keys which are now part of the touchscreen that hopefully will be capacitive.

Well, these specs are not official yet, and we don’t really know when the Storm 2 will become available. According to some “inside sources,” the BlackBerry 9550 will be released very soon: sometime in late summer or early fall. I guess we’ll hear more soon so stay tuned.

via BGR