Blackberry Storm Announcement in PartnerZone

Some more leaked information about the Blackberry Storm.  Little by little it trickles out, kinda like the little storm we had here in SoCal this morning.  Anyways, back to the news.  Berry Review got their hands on a little PartnerZone announcement that just explains more specs and features of the new device.  Not much in there for us, but here it is if you would like to read it:

The upcoming BlackBerry® Storm™ is the first touch screen BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion and it builds upon a variety of existing BlackBerry features and capabilities to produce a truly compelling touch experience.  With the BlackBerry Storm, RIM will introduce a version of software (v4.7) that delivers a new set of APIs and capabilities for third party developers including:

1)   Enhancements to the existing RIM User Interface APIs to provide support for touch and gestures including proper handling of multi-touch events.
2)   Support for MIDP applications that leverage touch.
3)   Virtual keyboard APIs
4)   Enhanced and open GPS APIs on all networks

In addition to the new API capabilities, your Browser-based applications will build upon the browser capabilities released in v4.6.0 including:
For third party developers, one of the unique features of the BlackBerry Storm is its compatibility mode which provides an operating environment for existing 3rd party applications that are not implemented to support touch.  This feature will automatically convert the touch events into existing trackball events.  When an application is executing in compatibility mode, a virtual keyboard will be shown at all times for text input to mimic the physical keyboard on previous devices and will only support portrait mode.

• Improved web page rendering including AJAX
• XMLHttpRequest
• JavaScript® 1.5
• CSS 2.1
• DOM L2 (including Core, HTML, Style, Events)
• HTML 4.01 (including Forms, Maps, Tables, Frames, Objects)
• Improved Native Attachment Download
• Support for downloading files via the browser

Key Features
- Screen Resolution: 480×360
- Virtual Keyboard: SureType (Portrait Mode) and Full Keyboard (Landscape Mode)
- Networking: Global network support (2G/3G)
- Memory: Embedded Memory

For all BlackBerry Alliance partners, RIM will be providing access to developer documentation, the BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE) v4.7 and the BlackBerry Storm simulator in October to enable development and testing of your applications on this new and compelling smartphone.

via BerryReview