Blackberry 9500 Thunder

BlackBerry Thunder 9500 seems to become the first touchscreen smartphone in RIM's 9000 series. The Canadian manufacturer will be offering the BlackBerry 9500 on Verizon Wireless and Vodafone networks, exclusively. Vodafone has a track record of getting BlackBerry smartphones exclusively in Europe, and an exclusive agreement will obviously also cause extra buzz for Verizon Wireless.

Network and connectivity:

As this phone is yet to be released, all I know about the specifications are mainly rumours or simply common knowledge. The detailed specs will be revealed nearer the release of this phone. So far, all I know is that the Blackberry Thunder is going to have a huge set of features to include GPS, a-GPS, a powerful media player, WiFi and of course high speed internet capabilities.

Camera and Video:

The Blackberry 9500 has 3.2 megapixel camera with variable zoom, auto focus and a powerful flash that also provides continuous lighting when recording video.

Memory and Display:

The BlackBerry Thunder 9500. The BlackBerry Thunder 9500 will feature a huge wide touchscreen with a resolution of 360x480 pixels. It would have been cool to see a BlackBerry 9500 with a slide-out QWERTY thumbboard and a significantly larger screen with landscape mode than the standard 2.5-inch 65K screen we are used to. The display on the Thunder will be covered with a glass surface much similar to the iPhone’s display. It has 1 GB of onboard memory storage and a microSD™/SDHD memory card slot that supports up to 16 GB of additional storage.

Entertainment Features :

The Thunder will run a carrier music store which similar to the iPhone's iTunes store and will allow users to purchase songs from their device. A 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, support for Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP/AVRCP) and dedicated volume controls. It also supports Audio player- AAC, eAAC, MP3, Video player-3GP, MPEG4, FM radio.

I think this phone will be a great success and whether it has problems or not the look of the phone will make Blackberry march into the leaders’ field. I also think that this phone will live up to our expectations just from Blackberry’s history so far they haven’t made a phone that has disappointed me and I really hope that with the Blackberry Thunder 9500 they keep up their almost flawless mobile phone history.