Get Your Music into the Storm.

Now that you got your Blackberry Storm, wouldn’t you like to transfer your music collection to your phone?

The new BlackBerry Storm comes with 8 Gig of Micro SD memory cards, which can hold a whopping 1500 songs. You can easily transfer your mp3, windows media player, and iTunes song to your device using one of the following steps.

The BlackBerry Storm can connect to your computer in If your collection is mostly mp3 files , you can either take your SD card and insert it in your PC card reader slot using the microSD to SD adapter . Then drag and drop your files to the SD card. If Removing the Micro SD card from the phone sounds like a hassle, you could also connect your Blackberry storm directly to your computer with the USB cable, the computer will automatically recognize it as a storage device and assign a drive letter to your, now again just drag and drop your files to the new folder.
On the other hand, you can use Windows Media Player 11 to Sync your files with the Blackberry Storm, Just plug the phone with the USB cable and WMP 11 should recognize it as a new sync device.

ITunes Lovers can also transfer their music to the Blackberry Storm using BlackBerry Media Sync software. BlackBerry Media Sync is compatible with 32-bit editions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 which requires iTunes version 7.0 or higher; AND 64 and 32-bit editions of Windows Vista which requires iTunes version 7.2 or higher BlackBerry Media Sync is a synchronization tool that is used for transferring media files from a BlackBerry Smartphone user's iTunes® music collection to the BlackBerry Smartphone.

To download BlackBerry® Media Sync 1.0.1 visit
http://www.blackberry.com/mediasync

Some of the Features of Media Sync are:

Gigabyte conversion

• The Home screen of BlackBerry Media Sync specifies the media card values in both MB and GB, depending on the size of the media card
Filter out categories or playlists containing 100% video content
• Playlists containing music can be selected in BlackBerry Media Sync
• Lists containing only video content will not be displayed (for example, playlists
consisting of only music videos)

Unsupported format or protected indicators when viewing playlists

• When clicking a playlist, the BlackBerry Smartphone user can view the number of tracks that are supported and the reasons why a specific track might not be transferred

No wonder the BlackBerry Storm is called the iphone Killer!!!.

The Storm Has Arrived.

It’s finally here. The much anticipated world’s first touch screen BlackBerry Storm is now available through Vodafone in the UK, Ireland and Australia, Verizon Wireless in the United States, Telus and Bell in Canada..



The BlackBerry Storm, or BlackBerry Thunder, is a smartphone developed by Research In Motion (RIM). It is part of the 9500 series of phones. It is RIM's first touchscreen device and first device without a physical keyboard and will feature a touchscreen which reacts physically like a button via SurePress, a Research In Motion patented technology of providing haptic feedback. That is when you strike a key or icon on the Storm's screen, you feel a physical sensation, as if you were pressing a real key or button. That's because you are pressing a real button. The entire glass display is one large button, mounted on a mechanical substructure that allows it to move upon pressure. The idea behind this feature is to make typing on glass feel much more like typing on a real keyboard, and thus to make the virtual keyboard, and the touch interface, more acceptable to people used to physical keyboards and buttons. This push-down screen also replaces the side-mounted scroll wheel or track ball on other BlackBerrys for activating menu choices and icons.

It is intended to be a direct competitor to Apple iPhone, the T-Mobile G1 by HTC, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro and HTC Touch HD. The shape and dimensions are very close to that of the iPhone, but thicker by 7 millimeters and heavier, weighing 20 grams (0.71 oz) more.
The Blackberry Storm is a world-phone, featuring CDMA with EV-DO Rev. A data, UMTS with HSDPA, and quad-band GSM with EDGE data access speed.

The BlackBerry Storm offers a surprising amount of innovation and usability for a touchscreen business phone. The clickscreen navigation setup works very well, and deftly solves the problem of dealing with RIM's long menus on a touchscreen phone. Typing on the BlackBerry Storm's keyboard is better than typing on any other touchscreen. Productivity apps are also top-notch, especially thanks to the included DataViz Documents To Go suite—good for opening and editing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. And of course, hundreds of third-party BlackBerry—ranging from games and RSS readers to Facebook and MySpace apps—are available online.
Multimedia options are plentiful, including easy-to-use music and video players. You can listen to your tunes over stereo Bluetooth headsets or using the 3.5mm earphone jack, and the phones comes with 1GB of internal storage and an 8GB microSD card.

Also making an appearance is a very capable 3.2-MP camera. While it lacks the fancypants lenses found in better camera phones, it does have a flash and snaps off some pretty decent, noiseless pics. Also included is a video recorder.

Web surfing on the device is good, not great. The fully realized browser pulls up pages quickly but also suffers from a lack of flash support. Cut-and-paste functionality works almost perfectly, as does text editing. All of RIM’s e-mail goodness and top-shelf messaging are also effortlessly integrated into the device. For better or for worse, you never forget that you are using a BlackBerry.

As I use the phone I will add more reviews and tips to this blog.