BlackBerry Storm 9500 mobile phone 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.