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Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled a new version of its Storm smart phone, the Blackberry Smart 2.This is a touch screen smart phone and comes with a much faster web browser when compared to Storm1.
Smart 2 will first be rolled out in the US and Canada later this month.
RIM has reportedly joined hands with Vodafone for launching Storm2 in European nations.
"The second generation of RIM's innovative and award-winning touch-screen smart phone, the BlackBerry Storm2 significantly improves the BlackBerry ouch-screen platform with new technology and new features to let customers stay easily connected to the people, places and things that matter most,'' the company statement said.
The new smart phone comes with a new technology based on an electronic system that provides the user with "tactile feedback'' when the touch-screen is pressed.
Its new electronic system responds even to gentle pressure applied anywhere on the surface of the screen and makes clicking the display almost effortless, the BlackBerry statement said.
The statement added that typing on the smart phone's virtual keyboards is much easier, more comfortable and more accurate.
Its new technology will also allow the user to type a letter with one thumb even while the other thumb may still be touching or resting on another letter, enabling faster typing.
The new BlackBerry smart phone also features a 3.2 MP camera with variable zoom, autofocus, flash and video recording as well as 256 MB of Flash memory.
Apart from an in-built GPS, this latest smart phone will also have 2 GB of memory which can be extended to 32 GB.
"This is a dramatically different, dramatically enhanced product,'' BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie was quoted as saying by Bloomberg news.
"I have never felt more optimistic about our position and more excited about our prospects, but I have also never felt like we had more work to do. So everything has become more amplified,'' he said.
