The BlackBerry 9500, also known as the BlackBerry Storm, is an elegant looking device packed with powerful features like a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus, flash, and image stabilization capabilities. The handset also comes with a video recorder, video player, and video streaming functions. The BlackBerry 9500 also supports SMS, MMS, and instant messaging functions.

Users who are always online will be pleasantly surprised to find that this handset is compatible with Internet connections like 3G HSDPA, GPRS, and EDGE. The handset is also 112.5 x 62.2 x 14 mm in size and weighs only 155 grams.

The BlackBerry 9500 has Bluetooth technology that allows users to easily transfer audio, video, and image files to another handset, as well as USB capabilities. Its MP3 player also plays a wide variety of audio files, and the handset supports polyphonic, MIDI, and MP3 ring tones.

The handset can last for 360 hours on standby (about 15 days), and talk times reach 5 hours and 30 minutes. The BlackBerry 9500 is also a touch screen phone, and its screen displays 65,000 colors. This handset also supports photocalls and has a 1 GB internal memory and 128 MB of RAM, and an expandable memory card slot.

Users will certainly find the document editor application that supports Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDF files in the BlackBerry 9500 very useful. The handset also comes with built – in Java, allowing more games to be played and stored in the phone. Other features of the BlackBerry 9500 handset include BlackBerry Maps, an HTML browser, an organizer, and voice dialing and voice memo.