Blackberry Storm Faces the Apple iPhone Head-on

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Retailers across the Acer TravelMate 290 Battery nation have been slashing their prices and praying for long lines at the check-out for this year’s Black Friday sales event. Some merchants didn’t wait for Friday to begin offering deep discounts. Retail giant Macy’s was offering diamond earrings that regularly sell for $700 for only $249. Saks was offering a Marc Jacobs handbag that originally sold for $995 for just $248, and Ted Baker suits that sale for $895 were cut to $399 at Lord & Taylor.


These major discounts are a sign of the tough economic times and analyst expect that with our economy in peril, many retailers will be offering even deeper discounts in the weeks before one of the toughest Christmas seasons the US has had in decades. Also this season, there are five fewer shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, causing many stores to scramble to unload their holiday inventory by December 25th.


With Wal-Mart stores offering DVD’s for just $2 and a large flat-panel Acer TravelMate 4000 Battery television for under $400, other retailers are in a sales frenzy trying to compete. For example, Toys “R” Us stores are having the biggest discounts in the company’s history, with fifty percent more “door busters” than last year, and the bargains are expected to increase as Christmas draws closer.


In fact, consumer analysts say that this trend in super price cuts may continue until some retailers begin to go out of business. Because Black Friday sales account for twenty-five to forty percent of most retailers annual sales, they will continue to cut prices right up to the point of having to close up shop for good.

Many stores opened their doors right after midnight Thursday night to begin their Black Friday sales; while other retailers opened at five A.M. in the hopes of getting a jump on the competition. According to Spending Pulse sales reports, Grocers are about the only retailers in the black this Black Friday due in part to the fact that our economy is causing more and more people to eat at home instead of dinning out.


Retailers are hoping for the best, but, according to a National Retail Federation Acer TravelMate 2300 Battery survey, fewer people plan to do their shopping on Black Friday this year. As many as 128 million, down from about 135 million last year. In spite of the recent survey, retailers are still hopeful and are expecting profits to be huge for this years Black Friday sales events.


Before 2009 rolls in, Verizon gave us an early Christmas gift: our very own Apple iPhone killer, the Blackberry Storm. Armed with features that are sure to rival the elegant Apple contender, Blackberry Storm promises its users a grand time with added features, a sleeker, darker externality and a flexible memory.

The Blackberry Storm measures at a petite 4.4 inches by 2.4 inches and is .55 of an inch thick. If you wish to compare the dimensions of the Blackberry Storm, it can be situated somewhere between the iPhone and the Android. Like most mobile phones, the usual navigation controls are located centrally, including controls for the ringing volume, screen lock and the standard controls for calling.


Priced inexpensively at $199, the Blackberry Storm is definitely a beauty Acer Aspire 1680 Series Battery with its ample screen and its high resolution (480 x 360). This figure is actually higher than most Smartphones, and allows users to use and view a variety of applications. The Blackberry Storm is also an efficient multi-tasker, able to execute multiple applications at once.


The new Blackberry Storm which was just released online by Verizon last November 21, comes with a renewable two year contract, which can cover all needs: data, voice and SMS. The SIM card that comes with the Blackberry Storm is locked-in with the unit for 50 days.

Picture-Perfect Performance


Though the Apple iPhone has an obviously larger screen, it is notable that the Blackberry Storm has a higher resolution. Employing a relatively new ClickThrough technology, the Blackberry Storm is the Smartphone for people who are used to using the vintage mouse or the notebook touchpad. You actually have Acer Aspire 1410 Battery to apply pressure to select and activate objects on the screen.


The Blackberry Storm would be a boon for people who have already been using the older Blackberry models, but for those who are more used to light tapping than clicking, such as those who are used to the Apple iPhone, expect to have a bit of a learning curve when you first handle the Blackberry Storm.

Menus, Menus and More Menus

Since the Blackberry Storm is still a Blackberry unit, there are certain features that would be best left to the older control interface than with the newer ClickThrough technology.


Blackberry models are known for a lot of menus and submenus, which could Acer TravelMate 4500 Battery get tiring if you use the screen to select. The vintage jog dial would still be more appropriate for the kind of menus that the Blackberry Storm has.


Though the Blackberry Storm is capable of running multiple applications at once, the performance is a bit slower than one would expect. For example, automatic switching (which is dependent on the position of the phone) takes a few seconds before it kicks in. Even scrolling through the menus can be painfully slow sometimes, taking more than a few seconds to complete.


If you are used to the lightning-quick response of notebooks with Word Processors, you might be a bit disappointed with the Blackberry Storm because there would be times that even the letter and words onscreen have a hard time catching up with nimble, typing Acer LCBTP03003 Battery fingers.