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hi this is Chatwin and today we're going to take a look at the verizon wireless storm 2 which is the successor to the original storm which was heralded as the first touchscreen blackberry on verizon wireless the storm two will be available in retail channels on October 28 and today we're going to do an unboxing and then we're going to take a look at the hardware and compare the storm two with the original storm so let's go ahead and do the unboxing the original storm actually came in a retail sleeve which actually shows the packaging better I'm not sure if we got a retail packaging for the storm to but it comes in just a simple box there are no manuals or CDs included all it comes with is the score to with the battery already and inserted in the device on a charger USB cable and headphones headphones for the device so let's go ahead and set aside what came in the box and do a hardware tour at the storm two the device is actually a large touchscreen slab Darren mill hardware keyboards actually a relatively thin profile and compared to the original storm with the flex screen DeStorm to and the original storm there are not much difference in size or weight the original storm had a click screen that was a little bit wobbly you can actually see it move around when you're up close to it and there's a little bit of LED light leakage coming from the the screen around the borders also there are actual physical hardware buttons on the bottom which you won't find Bobby storm to the storm to the screen actually you can't press in when the power is off and the buttons are actually integrated into the large capacitive touchscreen so these buttons are actually clickable on the screen as well let's go ahead and turn the device on once the device is actually powered on the touch screen you can actually press in right now and start clicking but that was not possible when the device was off let's go ahead and take a look at some of the hardware first before we go ahead and look at the software on the back of the device you have a 3.2 megapixel camera which is the same resolution as it was on the storm one and also on LED flash the battery cover now you actually just lift and pull and there are no latches on the side as was on the storm one you have the sim card the actual battery and a microSD card slot which supports up to 32 gigabytes of memory card on the left side of the device you have a micro USB charging port and you have a short time hardware button which is default to set to the voice control application on the other side you have the integrated volume up and down switch and also a shortcut key for the camera unlike the storm one the buttons are a little bit more subdued here you have the the buttons or more integrated whereas on the storm one it's actually chrome and the three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack at the top here of a storm one it protrudes out a little and on the storm two it is more flush with the device at the top this actually are these are two buttons that you can actually press in on one side you have the mute button which is the same as it is on the original storm and on this side you have an integrated switch if you press and hold it for a while it will turn the device on and off and if you just quickly press in it will actually just lock the screen so when you click on the screen nothing would happen on the original storm the power is actually integrated onto the end the call end button but since this is a capacitive touchscreen you can't do that with the power button because there would be no power if the device is often you can't click onto the screen so this is a brief hardware tour of the original storm with the storm two so let's go ahead and take a look at the software tour comparison in the next yo