The OC Technophile

The long speculation about the Blackberry Storm has now gone official with Blackberry and Verizon teaming up to present the first touchscreen Blackberry unit. Full touchscreen integration, the latest 4.7 software upgrade, the support for Bluetooth Stereo, GPS, and a 3.2 megapixel camera. No Wi-fi is onboard for this unit though which is a disapointment. Overall, it looks like a very promising phone with the Blackberry architecture built-in. Photos included courtesy of RIM. Launches in November so put it on your holiday shopping list.

As the Google/T-Mobile G1 got a lot of press coverage yesterday, some other cell phone news broke in regards to the Blackberry Storm. If you remember, the Storm is the touchscreen Blackberry that will be released on Verizon Wireless by the end of the year. Engadget Mobile and CNet are reporting the device will have a 3.25-inch, 480×360 touch screen, 1GB of memory, the phone will support CDMA/EV-DO Rev. A, quad-band GSM/EDGE, and 2100MHz HSPA bands, and more. The device will also have a landscape QWERTY-esque keyboard and a suretype portrait mode keyboard. It’ll be interesting to see this when it’s released. More news to follow we’re sure…

Image of the phone, credited to Engadget Mobile and CNet..