BlackBerry Touch Phones: A Competition for iPhone

You would always prefer touchscreen than a QWERTY keyboard when buying a new BlackBerry. Luck has favored you, because there are only two BlackBerry touchscreen phones available on the market today. Out of the two available, Storm 2 9550 is the best.

BlackBerry phones are not really well known for touchscreen features. In fact, many users have loved BlackBerry because of their QWERTY keypads something which many users find much easier to use for composing SMS and email messages. However, since smartphones today mostly have touchscreen features, RIM had no choice but to release their own touchscreen phone - the BlackBerry Storm 2 which now has two models - the BlackBerry Storm 2 9550 and BlackBerry Storm 9530.

The Storm 2 9550 is the improved version of Storm 9530, so I guess that this BlackBerry touch screen phone is the best so far.

Key Features

The key feature of BlackBerry Storm 2 is none other than its touchscreen interface. While the BlackBerry Storm 9530 also has this feature, the 9550 is quite different because of one thing - the SurePress touch screen. SurePress technology makes typing on the BlackBerry Storm 2 more accurate and tactile. The virtual QWERTY keyboard Tmakes it a pleasant experience composing email or SMS messages. More often than not, the touchscreen feature is simply not responsive enough. For the BlackBerry Storm 2 it's no longer a problem as it gives you a very responsive touchscreen interface.

The BlackBerry Storm 2 9550 features a 480x360 high resolution TFT LCD which compliments the phone's touchscreen interface. You'll find the phone's colorful functional icons pleasant to look at and they may even entice you to use the phone. Making the phone's display even better is backlighting, light sensing, selectable font size and rich, vivid color display.

You will also get the usual line up of BlackBerry smartphone features including the following:

1) wireless email
2) 3.2MP camera
3) media player
4) corporate data access
5) GPS
6) 15 days standby time; 6 hours talk time
7) 128MB flash memory
8) 1GB onboard memory

With the above features, this BlackBerry Storm 2 9550 may not be the best among the touchscreen smartphones available in the market today, but surely, RIM has made something that can compete with the likes of the iPhone and the Google Nexus One.

The BlackBerry developers too have now come up with some amazing apps, making it more competition

compatible with iPhone and Google Nexus.