9 Iconic Handsets That Defined BlackBerry

#1 Blackberry Storm

It is RIM's first touchscreen device, and its first without a physical keyboard. It features a touchscreen which reacts physically like a button via SurePress, a Research In Motion patented technology of providing haptic feedback. Its competitors include Apple's iPhone, the Palm Pre, and the HTC Touch family.

The display was a TFT capacitive touchscreen with 65K colors and resolution of 360 x 480 pixels, 3.25 inches. Under the hood it carried 1GB storage which could be expanded upto 16 GB by a microSD card, and it had 128 MB RAM, and 192 MB ROM.

The rear camera was 3.15 MP, with autofocus, LED flash. The device ran on BlackBerry OS, powered by Qualcomm MSM7600, 528 MHz ARM 11 and had an Adreno 130 GPU, with accelerometer.

Its  'clickable' screen technology called SurePress that was intended to give users the reassuring feeling akin to pressing a physical button and the problems such as software glitches made it a flop device.

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