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Blackberry Storm2 review: Part 2
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Screen
The 3.25” screen is colorful and bright, but only displays about 65,000 colors. This isn’t bad unless you are an avid media user and like to see every single color displayed. In looking at pictures on the Storm2, We were barely able to notice a difference in quality compared to looking at pictures on the iPhone. At maximum brightness, the screen is slightly brighter than the first generation Blackberry Storm.
Performance
This is where the Blackberry Storm2 excells. The performance feels far more solid than it does with the first generation Blackberry Storm: The on-screen keyboard performs better, the accelerometer works, and scrolling through menus is a lot easier. It’s still not perfect and we still think “SurePress” has its faults, but the Blackberry Storm2 has come a long way in overall performance.
We still wish Internet pages would render faster, but that is a software, rather than a hardware issue. It is highly rumored that RIM will supply Blackberries with a much better browser next year.
Multimedia
The Storm2 comes with a 3.2MP camera that shoots better quality pictures than most smartphone cameras do. Although colors were washed out on some sample shots, we were able to view details that we haven’t been able to do on smartphone cameras of the iPhone, Palm Pre, Touch Pro2, etc. Overall, we are very satisfied with the camera quality. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see how it works as a video camera.
The music player displays album art and has easy-to-access touch controls. Audio quality is decent, but not perfect. Video playback, however, is as close to perfect as one can get. All our clips play smoothly while showing great detail.
Phone
As with most Blackberry models on the Verizon network, the phone quality is excellent. People on the other end said they couldn’t tell we were on a cell phone. We could hear our callers perfectly, although there was some distortion when the volume was turned all the way up. The speakerphone quality is excellent and has minimal distortion.
Overall impressions
Those who wanted to break their first generation Blackberry Storm due to lack of quality finally have a smartphone they can be proud of. The Blackberry Storm2 works very well as a phone, email, and multimedia device. Verizon users who wanted to defect to AT&T for the iPhone can now comfortably stay with the most reliable network in the nation.
Click here to read the first part of this review
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