The replacement Blackberry Storm which RIM sent from their HK Office actually arrived one week after I bricked the original set. I had managed to obtain it during the Vesak Day weekend for a second look.

It doesn’t look very much different from the previous set except this set has some East Asian language support – except for Japanese. Even though it maybe a fact that the Japanese has more superior 3G handsets, I find it odd that this Storm has no Japanese language support. Perhaps, it was just left out when it left the factory.

As a result of my previous experience, I find this Storm much easier to handle than the previous set. In fact, while it takes a bit of getting used to (which is the same when you moved from a Blackberry with a scroll-wheel to a scroll-ball one), the interface and performance is not as atrocious as what I have read. Basically, I failed to understand the bad reviews and comments I keep seeing in Twitter or in blogs about the Storm. While it may not be an iPhone killer and it may not live up to the performance expectations of some Blackberry users, it is still a beautiful set.

Anyway, on demand by some friends that I made some screen shots, I downloaded JL_Cmder (a javaloader utility) a while ago to capture them directly off the Storm instead of taking photos of it. I even deliberately touch some buttons so it will light up when the screen shot is captured. Enjoy!