Compare Blackberry 9500 Storm and Blackberry 8520 Curve
On one hand when, the Blackberry 9500 Storm is performing pretty well with its 3.2 Inch 65k color Touch Screen, Blackberry 8520 Curve is performing decently as well with its 2.64 inch screen and 65K colors. The 2 mega pixel camera of the later model is pretty less compared to 3.5 mega pixel camera of the other model. The Curve provides the facility of 5 x digital zoom but its counterpart does not provide any such feature. When the camera key is found in 9500, it seems to be found missing from 8520. The facility of video streaming is also possible in the Storm besides the features like video player and video recording which are available in 8520. The facility of auto focus is missing from Curve.When Blackberry 8520 Curve comes with a trackball, the Blackberry 9500 Storm comes with a touch screen. Besides text messaging, multimedia messaging, wireless email with attachments and instant messaging available, 9500 excels over the other as it comes integrated with the features like email with attachments and email integrated accounts. The interesting feature of Storm is that it is Facebook & MySpace compatible. As far as sound attribute of Blackberry 9500 Storm versus Blackberry 8520 Curve is concerned, former scores better as it comes integrated with the innovative features like Roxio media manager, microphone, mono & stereo headset. It is also blessed with RIM wireless modem.
The storage capacity of both the devices is large as 8520 comes with 256 megabytes flash memory plus MicroSD memory and 9500 is coming with 128 megabytes flash memory & 1 gigabytes memory plus MicroSD. The 5.5 hours talk time and 360 hours standby is what users can easily expect from 9500 model. The expectations in terms of talktime on fully charged battery has not dissatisfied the users of 8520 as well because it comes with 4.5 hours talk time and 408 hours standby. The Curve seems to be slightly light weight and sleek compared to the simensions of the other gizmo. As far as similarities are concerned of both the gadgets are concerned, games can be downloaded in both the gadgets. In addition to the similarities like phone book, organizer, calendar in both the gadgets, the 9500 Storm comes with more interesting features like touch screen QWERTY keyboard, touch screen font size selectable, auto rotate touch screen, sure type, multi tap etc. .Both the devices are likely to give a feeling of a royal gadget. Although designed by a single manufacturer, yet there are substantial differences between the two.