BlackBerry OS 5.0 for Storm Released
So Verizon has finally released the new 5.0 OS for the BlackBerry Storm and I’d just like to say WOW. This is 99% better and is really how the phone should have been all along.
They’ve added new glow effects to the UI, giving it an all-new shiny. There’s also the elastic scrolling effects I think Storm users have been hoping for since day one. Threaded SMS has been added as well, which will definitely please anyone who does a lot of texting. Speaking of text…the new predictive text entry system is a nice addition as well, and seems to be quite effective at correcting most of my typos as I write this blog entry on my BlackBerry. On top of all of this, the phone exhibits greatly improved performance, on par with what one would expect given that its hardware is really no slouch.
Kudos to RIM on getting a software update out there that makes the Storm behave like a whole new device. I was still a bit disappointed that there’s no sign of a mixer for audio, so incoming texts will still interrupt any music you have playing. Aside from that…its a shame it took them nearly a year after the Storm was launched to get this update out there!
