Well, well, looks like Unkie Walt accidentally programmed his calendar to publish a combined preview of the Motorola CLIQ and the BlackBerry Storm 2
a little earlier than everyone else. Nothing particularly insightful on the CLIQ, but Mossy says RIM's latest is a big improvement over the original Storm -- mostly because of the
revamped touchscreen, which provides "faster, smoother typing." Yep, that's pretty much what we were expecting. Walt's also high on the inclusion of WiFi and the portrait-mode keyboard, but ain't nothing gonna make that BlackBerry browser any good, and the big guy says the touch interface still feels tacked to the rapidly-aging BlackBerry OS. So Walt -- now that you've confirmed RIM and Verizon's
big holiday launch, what can you tell us about pricing and availability? "Likely to appear in November at around $200," you say? Thanks, buddy. You're always so dependable. Video that we took of a
broken Storm 2 prototype in May after the break, tons of pics in the gallery
posted Oct 14th 2009 10:40PM
I have to admit that I absolutely hated the Storm at first. But with 4.7.0.167 and Opera Mini 5, I've reallly come to appreciate this phone a lot more. If the Storm 2 fixes the first phone's 2 biggest failings - typing and lack of WiFi - then it will be a really great phone.
Finally a true Touch Screen Berry.. One trick pony + 1 :)
BBYM already got our mocks in