A big storm is coming next month and it is going to be a cause of a big celebration for Verizon Wireless customers. Verizon Wireless officially debuts the “Blackberry Storm”, the first touch-screen BlackBerry.

The storm features a 3.25-inch diagonal display with a 480×360 pixel resolution and support for 65,000 colors. The phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack, four shortcut keys (Talk and End, Back, and BlackBerry menu) and a microSD slot. It is equipped with the most comprehensive global roaming capabilities than other wireless devices in the market today, featuring EV-DO Rev. A, quadband EDGE, and 2100MHz HSPA for Europe.

The blackberry Storm also includes a full HTML finger-navigable browser, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint editing capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0 with support for stereo Bluetooth headsets and dial-up networking, GPS, 1GB of on-board storage with an 8GB microSD card bundled in the box, automatic orientation and ambient lighting sensors, and a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with video recording, auto focus, and dedicated flash.

Storm includes a new feature called “ClickThrough”, a unique suspension system that lies beneath the phone’s display, making the display a clickable surface where everything can be pressed downwards, like a real button.

The Storm allegedly lasts 15 days on standby mode and 5.5 hours of talk time on either GSM or CDMA networks.

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