The final product of 2008’s touchscreen smartphone is here at least, the BlackBerry Storm—complete with both messaging and multimedia features aplenty, not to mention a nicely done touchscreen—looks set to give the Apple iPhone 3G and Google Phone T-Mobile’s Android-G1 a run for their money. Unfortunately, the BlackBerry Storm’s poky performance and failure to truly embrace touch keep it from landing a knockout punch.

Sizing at 4.4 by 2.4 by 0.55 inches and weighing in at 5.5 ounces, the BlackBerry Storm place itself between the svelte Apple iPhone and the bulky Google G1 in terms of size and overall heft, and it fits relatively comfortably in a your pocket. Below the roomy of BlackBerry Storm’s display you’ll find the standard Call, End, Back, and Menu navigations, while on the top corners are buttons for silencing ringers and locking the screen.

Speaking of which, the big draw of the BlackBerry Storm ($199 with a new two-year contract, available Friday, Nov. 21) is, of course, its 3.25-inch touch display, and it’s a true beauty. With its screen resolution of 480 by as60, the BlackBerry Storm’s touchscreen actually manages to pack in more pixels than the Apple iPhone’s larger, 3.5-inch screen, and the result is a rich, razor-sharp image, perfect for composing e-mails, internet surfing, or watching multimedia such as videos & movies.

Barring its lack of Wireless (Wi-Fi), the BlackBerry Storm makes for one of the most feature-packed BlackBerrys yet, and something tells us that the engineers at Apple company will be giving its ClickThrough display a close (and potentially envious) look. Now, if BlackBerry could whip up a Storm that’s as peppy as the Bold, well … that would be something nice.

Solid state hard disk drives have been slow to catch on in mainstream computing technology, but thanks to a new file system invented by SanDisk, SSDs might be too great to pass up on.

The new file system technology, called “ExtremeFFS” (this name rocks!), uses some newfangled trickery to systematically increase writing speeds. Electronista says, “… ExtremeFFS uses a page-based technique that no longer ties the logical location of data on the drive to its physical data space. Instead, it dynamically writes and alters the position of data based on where it would be most efficient as well as the user’s own habits.”

We’re not sure exactly what all of that techie-stuff even means, but according to SanDisk, we should be seeing a huge improved performance as well as reliability with ExtremeFFS file system-equipped drives. Also, random-write speeds should see a big improvement, up to one hundred times faster the speed when compared to traditional SSDs (Solid-State Drive).

There’s no “ExtremeFFS” solid-state drives have been announced yet, but SanDisk says ‘wait for our new technology in 2009′.

So, let us wait for this New SanDisk ExtremeFFS SDD with 100x Write Speed huh

Now we’re on final part of T-Mobile G1-Google Phone Full Reviews. If you missed the previous G1 reviews, you still can read it here & here.

After all, while you’re sad with the G1-Google Phone’s hardware weakness (lack of a 3.5mm jack etc), the awesome of the open-source Android Operating System is that third-party developers are free to tweak any and all of the G1-Google Phone’s core ability, like the dialer, music player, browser, e-mail client or just anything and the sky’s only the limit.

Same goes with the G1-Google Phone Android Market, which was (unsurprisingly) sparsely populated during the tests. Any softwares installed quickly about under a minute and the G1-Google Phone will notified you of any security risks (such as whether the application will access your personal bio, dialer, or GPS connection) before any installation begins—great huh.
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