I saw the news and reviews, but no one seems to be excited and looks least bothered about the great storm. Its sleek design and amazing features are worth a talk. Here’s what Techcityinc has to say about it in case u missed it.

The latest handset from RIM has been officially announced. BlackBerry aims to take the world by storm. It’s a touch screen smartphone that will be made available via Verizon Wireless and Vodafone sometime this fall.
BlackBerry Storm Features include
* Touch Screen
* Multi-touch and gestures
* 480 x 360 resolution
* 3.2MP camera
* 1 GB of onboard memory storage
* Microsd card slot
* Media player
* 3.5mm headset jack
* Clickable screen
* Full HTML browser
* Rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery
* 6 hour talk time and 15 days of standby battery time.
* Weights 55gIt’s clickable screen will allow you to highlight and copy text. People have experienced great difficulties doing this on other touchscreen devices like iPhone.
Frank RoveKamp at Vodaphone said “With its unique clickable touchscreen, giving access to all the desirable multimedia features and services such as browsing, music and video, the BlackBerry Storm is being brought by Vodafone into the consumer world.”
Not just that it also has a accelerometer that will you displays the screen in portrait or landscape mode as appropriate. The BlackBerry Storm 9500 from Vodafone supports (2100Mhz) UMTS/HSPA and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks. No word on pricing at this point but it’s expected soon.

It looks amazing to me….very sleek and sexy