While Blackberry 8520 is a pleasing no ordinary looking mobile set with chick black cover; BlackBerry Storm 2 is a warm scintillating smartphone with aristocratic touch screen with similar black and sleek body. Both of these sets dominate in style. The model 8520 comes with 2.64 inch TFT screen at 320 x 240 pixels, which supports 65 k colours. The alluring full QWERTY keyboard comes with Touch-sensitive optical trackpad for convenient scrolling through menu , information or icons. Standing apart Storm 2 is a set with 3.2 Inch TFT LCD touch screen at 480 x 360 pixels that supports same range of 65 k colours. The additional counts go for its screen’s TruePress or SurePress, supposed to be enhancing the touch functions to glide smoothly. However, Storm 2 comes in 9520 and 9550 versions bearing almost similar features except the former version featuring Accelerometer sensor with auto-rotate.

The photographic pleasure of Blackberry 8520 is enabled with a 2MP camera at 1600x1200 pixels and capable of video recording with a built-in 5x digital zoom. There is a built-in flash to support taking shoot pictures even in insufficient light conditions. Its video capturing is sustained with QVGA. The set offers normal mode and MMS mode video shooting. BlackBerry Storm 2 features 3.2 mega pixel camera that supports video recording. There is a built-in flash and image stabilizer facility.

Blackberry 8520 is 2G network enabled mobile handset supported with GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and its 3G network is supported with HSDPA 2100. The 2G network of BlackBerry Storm 2 is supported with GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and CDMA2000 800 / 1900. The 3G network works on HSDPA 2100 and EV-DO 800 / 1900. Both of the models feature Bluetooth wireless data transfer and wired transfer through microUSB.

The internal memory of Blackberry 8520 Blackberry 8520 is 2GB and expandable with microSD as well features Photocall. The internal memory of BlackBerry Storm 2 is equally 2 GB and expandable using microSD. These basic comparisons place the models on not for big differences, but full QWERTY keyboard of Blackberry 8520 and TruePress or SurePress features of BlackBerry Storm 2.

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