Vodafone Essar and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced availability of BlackBerry Storm exclusively for Vodafone customers in India from January 15, 2009. Adding another color to touch screen technology, the Storm will be offered via Vodafone Essar, and will fetch Rs. 27,990 (around $580 USD).
Users of the BlackBerry Storm from Vodafone will easy to have and keep Web community pages current, continue instant message chats or even add pictures directly to Flickr.
The Storm’s custom-built applications include:*Facebook
*Windows Live Messenger
*Google Talk
*Yahoo! Messenger
*Flickr Photo Uploader
The BlackBerry Storm brings the renowned functionality of the BlackBerry solution and gives consumers and business customers with entertainment, information and communications at the tip of their fingers. Mr. Harit Nagpal, Director – Marketing and New Business, Vodafone Essar explained, “The BlackBerry Storm offers our customers easy access to voice and email, a range of social media applications, multimedia content, satellite navigation and many other services on the move in a single device.â€
Designing in a sleek form with contoured corners, chromed frame and a stainless steel back, it features 1 GB on-board memory storage, microSD/SDHD memory card slot supporting up to 16 GB of additional storage per card, Media player, 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, built-in accelerometer, ambient light sensor that adjusts backlight and a removable and rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery.
It also bundles up BlackBerry Internet Service, BlackBerry Professional Software and BlackBerry Enterprise Server support and comes preloaded with DataViz Documents to Go that lets you edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
