The fist pics of the long awaited and rumored at BlackBerry Mangum 9900 have finally surfaced!
For those who do not know, the Magnum us a hybrid of the Storm and Bold brunging the best BlackBerry physical keyboard together with a touch screen. Weather this would have SurePress/TruePress or a traditional capacitive touch screen is unknown. This has been rumored at and talked aboout for well over a year now, but these are the the first live pics brought to us by Cel Guri (AKA @cellguru on Twitter).
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“2008 was a killer year for the smartphone, an iPhone-killer year, that is. Device makers a-plenty rolled out their latest and greatest, packing in not only myriad corporate functions, but also a host of consumer-aimed multimedia features.” With that line RCN opened their article The 10 Coolest Smartphones Of 2008
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It’s bee available for a matter of days now and the Storm has already picked up it’s first award courtesy of the CDMA Development Group. I don’t think even the iPhone had that happen — Take THAT, BGR and Engagenet!
The BlackBerry® Storm™ 9530 Smartphone Wins its First Award!
The CDMA Development Group has awarded RIM and Verizon Wireless its 2008 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Award for Subscriber Technology Innovation for the BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone.
The award recognizes innovative thinking in regards to services supported and overall product design. The BlackBerry Storm 9530 takes advantage of the inherent benefits and the latest technological developments of
3G CDMA networks and offers consumers numerous state-of-the-art features.
Building on the success of the BlackBerry® 8830 World Edition smartphone, Research In Motion recently unveiled the BlackBerry® Storm 9530™ smartphone, to be offered by Verizon Wireless. It’s the first smartphone to feature support for both EV-DO Rev. A and HSPA networks, giving BlackBerry Storm users seamless access to high-speed EV-DO Rev. A networks and HSPA networks?for true mobile broadband global roaming. The BlackBerry Storm supports dual-band Rev. A networks, single-band UMTS/HSPA networks, and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks.
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