SmarTone-Vodafone Taking Pre-Orders for Hong Kong BlackBerry Storm

It’s finally coming to Hong Kong, Blackberry Fans!

SmarTone-Vodafone began pre-selling the much anticipated (already available in North America since Q4 2008) BlackBerry Storm touch-screen smartphone in Hong Kong yesterday.

If you know you want it you can click here to order or call the SmarTone sales hotline on 2860 2622. Want to know more details? keep going:

The BlackBerry Storm’s responsive touch screen is designed for effortless navigation and typing, and equipped with a full QWERTY on-screen keyboard in landscape mode or SureType messaging in portrait. Its widescreen display, coupled with its full HTML browser enables surfing of full width Internet pages at a glance. Website content can also be zoomed in and out, or scrolled with fingers while browsing. The world famous BlackBerry push email experience has also been enhanced with quick email searches, just by hovering over the name or the subject in the message list. And there’s business and personal email integration in one inbox for the first time too.

High-resolution display to let you get more from SmarTone-Vodafone

The BlackBerry Storm brings images and videos to life with breathtaking clarity through its 3.25” screen – the largest screen ever-on BlackBerry smartphones – and HVGA (480×360) resolution. Viewing the rich array of multimedia services from SmarTone-Vodafone is impeccable, requiring only one touch to launch. Customers can now enjoy:

• Fone TV – stay informed and relax anytime with a personal mobile TV service offering 26 channels of news, entertainment and information in unparalleled High Definition (HD Wide) clarity;
• News – the fastest delivery of clearly categorized breaking news by a professionally staffed newsroom throughout the day;
• Market Watch – real time digest of the local stock market, letting customers capture the essence of live market action in a matter of minutes.

What’s more, with the BlackBerry Storm, customers can enjoy SmarTone-Vodafone’s unique Internet on Mobile service at its best. For instances, they can view more videos from more websites than other mobile operator. They can share web content with friends quickly and easily with just one click; while RSS links on webpages are automatically detected when browsing and can be accessed instantly with a click on a proprietary on-screen toolbar providing instant viewing. Finally, bookmarks of websites on a customer’s PC and mobile can be easily synchronized at the click of a button for maximum convenience.

Integrated Messaging

The BlackBerry Storm is equipped with a superb 3.2 mega pixel camera that comes with auto focus and auto flash. It’s also ideal for avid Facebook, MySpace and YouTube users while Flickr fans will love the ease and speed to share and upload their pictures seconds after taking them.

For easy email communications on the move, customers can integrate their personal and business email accounts so all the messages are sent directly to the inbox of their BlackBerry Storm. SmarTone-Vodafone brings unique and outstanding features to the BlackBerry Storm such as its proprietary traditional/simplified Chinese character instant converter, allowing customers to instantly convert entire emails between the two character sets at a press of the button. For quicker composition of emails and documents in Chinese, customers can also opt for the 5-stroke Chinese input. With pre-loaded Instant Messaging applications, the BlackBerry Storm also allows customers to stay in touch with friends in real time with Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger.

Turn your smartphone into a PC modem

The Blackberry Storm supports 3G HSPA broadband speed and customers can benefit from SmarTone-Vodafone’s highly recognized network for best coverage, reliability and fastest speed. Customers can also turn their BlackBerry Storm into a modem to connect a laptop to the Internet. For this, SmarTone-Vodafone’s Duo Broadband Plan charges only $50 for 50MB per month and any further data charges are capped at $298 for unlimited broadband connectivity for shared use on both PC and mobile, offering great value and convenience.