Compare BlackBerry Storm 9530 Deals

The BlackBerry Storm 9500 brings all the functionality of a BlackBerry in touchscreen form. It's a real iPhone alternative and its exclusive to Vodafone. Aimed at everyday phone users and business users, it's free on a pay monthly contract from £40 per month and all deals include unlimited Internet and BlackBerry email.

The 3.25 inch touchscreen is clear and crisp with a high resolution of 480x360 pixels. Built using a unique new technology, the screen is spring-loaded so the whole screen effectively acts as one big button. When in landscape mode a large QWERTY keyboard appears on screen for easy text input. Browsing the web using the large screen is a good experience. Especially with 'Cursor Mode', which gives you an on-screen mouse pointer. You can move your finger around the screen and click on any point with mouse like precision for web links or editing documents. GPS is also present and you'll receive 6 months free subscription to Vodafone's Find & Go sat nav service.

The inbuilt music and media player is good and is tightly integrated with Vodafone's Music Store service where you can download new tracks, albums and listen to 30 second previews of the latest songs. The BlackBerry Storm can also sync with iTunes. There's 1GB of memory on board, which can be expanded using a memory card. The camera is 3.2 megapixels with autofocus, flash and built Flickr and Facebook applications.

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Specifications

Weight: 155g
Standby battery time: 2 weeks and 20 hours

3.5 mm Audio jack

Standard sized audio jack for listening on headphones.

Autofocus

This phone has an autofocus function allowing you to take pictures without the need to focus

Bluetooth

Bluetooth allows users to pair with other Bluetooth devices. This allows a wireless connection to a Bluetooth headset or carkit so that you can carry out a conversation without the need to hold your handset. Particularly useful for conversing whilst driving.

Built-in handsfree

You can use this phone's built-in speaker to listen to incoming or outgoing calls and music handsfree.

Calculator

This phone has a calculator built in.

Calendar

This phone has an organiser which includes a Calendar

Camera

Almost all mobile phones now come with a built in camera and their quality is increasing to rival many stand alone point and shoot cameras. For example, the HTC Desire HD has an 8 megapixel camera, which enables you to take great photos, on the go.

Take a look through the mobile phone deals we have by camera quality or feature:

8 megapixel cameras
5 megapixel cameras
Image stabilizer
Flash

Email

This phone is capable of sending and receiving email

Flash

This phone has a camera with an in-built flash

FM Radio

Allows you to tune into FM Radio channels, the headset is used as the antenna.

GPRS

Stands for General Packet Radio System. This basically allows you to browse internet websites using your phone. GPRS is mainly used for text based information - getting football results, checking train timetables, reading the news etc. GPRS is not bad at downloading pictures, however it is slower than 3G. You can use GPRS to received and send Multimedia messages such as a text with a picture.

It is advisable to choose a 3G handset for decent download speeds of videos and pictures rather than GPRS, however GPRS is pretty good for text based information and pictures with lower definition.

GPS navigation

Sofware that interacts with the Global Positioning Satellite system for pin-point route-finding anywhere in over 100 countries.

Instant messaging

Instant messaging (often abbreviated simply to IM) offers real-time communication.

Internet

You can browse the Internet using your phone. The speed of browsing is dependent on the handset in question for example if the phone is 3G then your browsing speed will be significantly higher than a GPRS phone.

Memory expandable via MicroSD card

This allows you to expand the phone's memory using MicroSD cards. MicroSD cards are available in various sizes, the most popular being 1GB or 2GB which can hold thousands of songs and hundreds of pictures.

MP3 Player

The phone includes an MP3 player which allows you to play and store music. Works in a similar fashion to normal MP3 players in that you can upload Music onto the phone's memory or onto an external memory stick (size of memory slot dependent on phone). Once the music is loaded you can listen to it either on the phone's speakers or using a pair of headphones that is compatible with the handset.

MP3 Ringtone

You can choose an MP3 song from your MP3 player on your phone and set this as your ring tone on this phone

MP4

MPEG4 is most commonly used to store digital and digital video streams, including those defined by MPEG. It can also be used to store other data such as still images. MPEG-4 Part 14 allows streaming over the Internet and carries an officiall filename extension of .mp4, thus the container format is often referred to simply as MP4.

Multimedia Service MMS