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hey guys jon rettinger guest editor for pocketnow.com here with a hardware review for you of the just-released blackberry storm so let's go ahead and get started move the camera down so you guys can see the device I'll go over and run over some of these specs with you lengthwise the phone is four point four three inches width wise it's 2.4 inches depth point five five and clocking in wait why is just five point five ounces so it's a little bit on the heavier side but definitely not bad let's phone is highlighted by for hardware buttons across the top you've got your green send key your typical blackberry menu button a back button and an end and power key on the left side of the device is a user programmable soft key and your micro USB charging port on the right side of the Vice you've got a 3.5 millimeter headset jack which is always nice volume up and down and another user programmable key the back of the device you've got a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with flash it's actually really nice the camera does take solid pictures and it also takes video as well and the back of device is actually metal and it's got a kind of a neat release mechanism for it took these two latches on the side actually push them and the whole bag pops up in the back is actually metal so while that's nice for build quality does make the device get a little bit hot so keep in mind for that cut and pop that back on there alright moving on to the front of device here is your speaker with an LED indicator microphone on the bottom and on the top you've got a lock button and a mute button it's actually very neat feature so to lock the phone you just pop that locks it for you put in your pocket unlock it you hit the same button now you look at the blackberry storm the first thing that you notice is it's gorgeous screen and the screen on the blackberry storm is a 480 x 320 color display showing over 65,000 colors and it's got a light sensor on it which is kind of needs a similar to say the iphone it'll just for ambient light battery life on this thing is verizon's estimating standby time of 15 days and about 5.5 hours of talk time it's got 128 megabytes flash memory inside of it and it comes pre-installed with an eight gigabyte microSD card to augment its 1 gigabyte onboard flash memory so let me go ahead give you guys a comparison to this with some other devices that you may be looking at or maybe even looking to replace alright so for better or worse the storm is going to first draw comparisons to apple and AT&T iPhone so here they are side-by-side you can certainly see that the iphone is a little bit bigger to put on top of each other here size-wise you can see the storm is just a little bit thicker and it's also a little bit narrower so relatively close in size and certainly a pocketable device the phone that probably most people and varieties will be replacing the blackberry curve right on top of each other almost exactly the same dimensions on top with wise very close stack them this way so you can see almost identical another phone you guys may be looking at is the AT&T and samsung epix so here they are side by side FX is just a little bit bigger stacked on top almost the same size and width was pretty close to the same size there now the other black bear it's at the top of rims lineup is the blackberry bold released on 18 TS network so here they are side-by-side this one certainly doesn't have a touchscreen but does have a full tactile QWERTY keyboard so the bold is just a little bit longer on top it's also just a little bit wider and also just a little bit thicker let's go ahead and give you guys a day you're comparison here so guys I hope you enjoyed the hardware review of the just-released blackberry storm be sure to stay tuned for pocket now for a full review and some of the software of it it is a very cool device I have really enjoyed using it for the past day and a half I'm going to save all my opinions good and bad until the next video so be sure to stick around and stay tuned and check out pocketnow.com guys I will talk to you soon bye