The BlackBerry Storm offers many of the same features found on the Apple iPhone and will be available exclusively on the Vodafone network.Tariffs start at £35 a month - the same as those for the iPhone -including unlimited internet browsing.
Research in Motion, the company behind the handset, is thought to be keen to broaden the BlackBerry's appeal beyond its traditional business base.The Storm has up to 16GB of storage, enough for more than 3,000 songs, and users will be able to download tracks on to the device from the Vodafone Music Store.
It has a 3.25in high resolution touchscreen and provides one-touch access to online social-networking sites such as Facebook and the photo-sharing site Flickr, as well as built-in satnav and mapping software.The phone features a 3.2-megapixel camera, compared to the iPhone's two-megapixel camera.