BlackBerry Storm

The BlackBerry Storm 9500 brings all thefunctionality of a BlackBerry in touchscreen form. Its a real iPhonealternative and its exclusive to Vodafone. Aimed at everyday phoneusers and business users, its free on a pay monthly contract from ?40per month and all deals include unlimited Internet and BlackBerry email.

The3.25 inch touchscreen is clear and crisp with a high resolution of480x360 pixels. Built using a unique new technology, the screen isspring-loaded so the whole screen effectively acts as one big button.When in landscape mode a large QWERTY keyboard appears on screen foreasy text input. Browsing the web using the large screen is a goodexperience. Especially with Cursor Mode, which gives you an on-screenmouse pointer. You can move your finger around the screen and click onany point with mouse like precision for web links or editing documents.GPS is also present and youll receive 6 months free subscription toVodafones Find & Go sat nav service.

The inbuilt musicand media player is good and is tightly integrated with VodafonesMusic Store service where you can download new tracks, albums andlisten to 30 second previews of the latest songs. The BlackBerry Stormcan also sync with iTunes. Theres 1GB of memory on board, which can beexpanded using a memory card. The camera is 3.2 megapixels withautofocus, flash and built Flickr and Facebook applications.