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Blackberry brews up an iPhone-killing Storm

Written by Rene Millman

Monday, 06 October 2008

One of the few things that people criticise Apple's iPhone for is the lack of copy and paste functionality. The latest Storm smartphone from BlackBerry aims to pick up these disaffected customers.

According to reports from Boy Genius Report, the new Storm smartphone will allow users to highlight highlight and copy portions of text using the phone's multitouch features. Something the iPhone cannot do. According to the report this will take time to master, but it said that the feature is "simple, brillant and effective".

The BlackBerry touchscreen mobile also sports an inbuilt accelerometer and a resizeable on-screen keyboard, which can become QWERTY in landscape mode and a phone keypad in portrait mode.

The Storm smartphone will feature a 3.2 megapixel camera and a whole gig of internal memeory as well as 128MB of flash memory. Disappointingly the screen itself is atraditional 4:3 ration (480 by 360) and not a widescreen.However, it will sport a GPS, WiFi connectivity and stereo Bluetooth.

The mobile phone will also feature Blackberry Media Sync which syncs multimedia stuff to the Storm and better Facebook integration. Not only that, it appears that BlackBerry has stolen several pages from both Apple's App Store and T-Mobile G1 Android Market with its new BlackBerry Application Center.

The new store is set to "launch on the the BlackBerry Storm's version 4.7 operating system" and will allow the user to locate and install third-party BlackBerry apps hosted by carriers, according to website Crackberry.

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