blackberry Storm

blackberry Storm, the first blackberry with touch screen the latest thunderstruck from Research In Motion.

features: Wireless email, Organizer, Browser, Phone, Camera, Video recording, BlackBerry® Maps, Media player, Built-in GPS, Corporate data access, SMS, MMS

size: 4.43"/112.5mm (Length) 2.45"/62.2mm (Width) 0.55"/13.95mm (Depth)
Weight: 5.5 oz/155g

Data Input/Navigation: SurePress™ touch screen, On screen keyboard: portrait SureType® and Multi-tap, QWERTY landscape.
Voice Input/Output: 3.5mm stereo headset capable, Integrated earpiece/ microphone,
Built-in speakerphone, Bluetooth® v2.0; mono/stereo headset, handsfree, phone book access profile, and serial port profile supported (Bluetooth® technology).

Media Player: MPEG4 H.263, MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.264, WMV (Video format support), MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus (Audio format support).

display: High resolution 480 x 360 pixel color (Display), Transmissive TFT LCD, Font size (user selectable), Color display, Light sensing screen.

notification: Polyphonic/MIDI ringtones, MP3 ringtones, Vibrate mode, LED indicator.

battery: Up to 15 days (Standby time), Up to 5.5 hours (Talk time)

memory: Expandable memory – support for microSD card, 1 GB (Onboard memory), 128 MB Flash (Flash memory).

email: Works with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for Microsoft® Exchange,
Works with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for IBM® Lotus® Domino®,
Works with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for Novell® GroupWise®,
Integrates with an existing enterprise email account.

security: Password protection and screen lock
Sleep mode, Support for AES or Triple DES encryption when integrated with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server,
FIPS 140-2 Compliant (FIPS Validation in Progress) (FIPS validation), Optional support for S/MIME.

network:

UMTS/HSPA networks: 2100 MHz, North America: 850 MHz GSM/GPRS networks,
North America: 1900MHz GSM®/GPRS networks,
Europe/Asia Pacific: 1800MHz GSM/GPRS networks,
Europe/Asia Pacific: 900MHz GSM/GPRS networks.

Blackberry in Indonesia.
Indosat, Indonesia's second biggest cellular operator, as official bundling vendor and operator for Blacberry Storm optimistic with selling of Blackberry Storm although Blackberry Storm has no WiFi. Marketing Director of Indosat, Guntur S Siboro said to local news portal that Indosat offer free browsing with Opera Mini and Facebook social network. So, Blackberry Storm without WiFi is not a big problem.

He also said that Blacberry Storm has different segment. People who work in the office do not need WiFi. Moreover, a lot of WiFi facility only available in certain place and usually crowded with less privacy.

Right now, Blackberry Storm for Indonesian market available and ready stock about 5000 unit for pre order. Unfortunately, the price of Blacberry Storm not yet announced by Indosat. But Indosat claimed that the price of Blackberry Storm not expensive as iPhone 3G.

"Our sales target is to ournumber Telkomsel's iPhone 3G sales. It could even be selling 2,000 iPhone 3G on the launch day only," said Teguh Prasetya, group head brand marketing, Indosat, who was quoted by Detikcom newsportal. Prasetya revealed that Indosat has been delivered 80,000 units of BlackBerry handhelds (25,000 of them are BlackBerry Bold) into the market so far.

iPhone 3G itself has sold nearly 5,000 units through Telkomsel, the country's biggest operator and sole iPhone 3G operator, just a month after its official launch in Indonesia. According to Telkomsel president director Sarwoto Atmosutarno, the company will fight to sell more iPhones this year.

Telkomsel, along with another operator Excelcom, also offers BlackBerry services.