Finally RIM and Vodafone India has launched their much awaited touchscreen based smart phone in India @ Rs. 27,990/- (never expected this price after seeing their hefty price tag of Rs. 35,000/- for the much buggy handset Bold).

“The market for smartphones in India is at a very nascent stage and growing rapidly. ‘Blackberry Storm’ takes the 3G experience a step forward,” Vodafone Essar Director Marketing and New Business Harit Nagpal told PTI.

BlackBerry Storm in India

BlackBerry Storm features a 3.25 inch high resolution screen, built-in accelerometer, access to Facebook,Windows Live, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Flickr and has applications that include BlackBerry Internet service, BlackBerry Professional Software and BlackBerry Enterprise Server support. Moreover, it accompanies along pre-loaded DataViz Documents to Go for editing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Storm also boasts of a 3.2 megapixel camera with variable zoom, auto focus and flash and video recording capability. The phone carries on it 1 GB of on-board memory storage and slot for microSD/SDHD memory which can expand memory by additional 16 GB.

We have a saying in hindi

“daer aaye per durust aaye…” fitted very well over here.

Source: The Hindu