For those of you hoping that RIM could pull off a handset capable of challenging the incredibly slim and futuristic tree-borne Android handsets in the touchphone hardware arena, you'll have to dream past the
Storm 3. From the looks of it, we'll be getting a fairly minor "refresh" of the Storm 2, according to our tipster, with upgrades more designed to accommodate
BlackBerry 6 than anything. As seen on the slide, the phone will double the Storm 2's RAM with 512MB, the camera will be bumped up to 5 megapixels, and the WiFi is being shifted to 802.11n -- a spec RIM is already rocking on the
Pearl 3G, so not unprecedented. Outside of BlackBerry 6 and that (supposedly) blazing new WebKit browser, we're probably most enthused about the "coming soon" 3G mobile hotspot functionality, something that's made our Android handsets invaluable as of late. We were already hearing the Storm 3 and Curve 3 (another refresh, says our tipster) were
holiday possibles for Verizon, and the bottom of this slide points to an "___ember" month.
posted July 19th 2010 2:07PM
That's great! Only a million people or more, including myself, have left this dying platform. I bet that this is all one big overhyped promise...once this browser is running on a real, fully loaded consumer phone, it's going to suck just lik!e everything else from RIM. I'm so glad I switched to Android after almost two miserable years with the Storm. RIP RIM
After seeing my buddy's Storm 2 freeze up every two seconds, I'll be passing on the Storm 3.