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The Blackberry Storm 2 9520 is the phone a lot of people have been waiting to buy. After all, Blackberry is one of the leading smartphone names, and this promises a lot with its new operating system and touch screen. Ultimately, though, does it deliver a very different experience

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The Blackberry Storm 2 9520 is the phone a lot of people have been waiting to buy. After all, Blackberry is one of the leading smartphone names, and this promises a lot with its new operating system and touch screen. Ultimately, though, does it deliver a very different experience from its predecessors?

The answer is yes, it does, and in a very big way. What users will primarily notice is the new touch screen, where touching – even typing – is just like pressing a button, even down to the response the finger feels. That’s different, but feels very natural. It makes typing on the onscreen keyboard a satisfying experience, while an auto correct feature makes everything smooth.

So what else is new on the Blackberry Storm 2 9520? With Wi-Fi and GPS, there are more features, and the styling is simpler and sleeker, leaving it feeling much better and more natural in the hand. There’s 256MB of flash memory (twice as much as the previous model), and users can add up to 2GB more. That’s not a great deal, but it is fine for business professionals, Blackberry’s main market.

Although it’s packed with improvements, there is still more that could have been achieved, primarily on the touchscreen, which still requires a double tap to zoom; borrowing Apple’s pinch-to-zoom technique would have been much better.

That said, RIM has taken some massive strides with this handset. Although most users won’t give much thought to the new version of the Blackberry operating system that powers it all, it makes a huge difference. This handset is a real contender.

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