The most anticipated blackberry phone of the 2009 was the new Blackberry Storm.  Although the first response was a mixture of positive and negative reviews, we will need to wait a bit more to see whether Storm would stand tall with all the hype surrounding it.  The one drawback when it comes to the new Blackberry Storm is the fact that it does not have the Wi-Fi or even the tri-band HSDPA.  But although phone without Wi-Fi can be accepted, phone without the tri-band is really unacceptable. Or better said – one would work without the other, but both missing? Hmm.  Even without Wi-Fi it can be best managed with the solid data network that it comes along with, and as EDGE is its max data speed, that is just not enough.

Although the start price was $495 with some contract put forth by Vodafone, price is now dropping sharply. Some mobile operators in Europe started to offer Storm as a Blackberry for the young, forming new cheap fixed flat rate monthly packages to accompany it.

But now as Storm arrived to market, and everyone interested got to see it, hype is shifting to new interesting model – Niagara or Blackberry 9630. Although Niagara will not be touch screen, it is a mixture between Bold and Curve. It is smaller than Bold (size and design of Curve) but has all the advanced features of Bold (including 3G, WiFi, better camera)… From first reports we can deduct that build quality will be superb and that 9630 will have the best screen so far in Blackberries (reports talk of great glassy screen that does not look plastic at all). Also keyboard is great and something that is first in blackberry – a great stereo speakers! So playing music while jogging, with gps tracking your path is something that Niagara will offer at last… Niagara is expected to hit the market before summer time (q1/q2)!