Blackberry Storm Is A Poor Effort

• There was no point for Blackberry to even make a touch screen phone.
• The touch screen Storm, featured in this video, shows a phone that sports a non-responsive touch screen with sluggish typing capabilties and a user interface that I may as well be using a stylus to navigate with.
• The music store/player looks terrible
• The size of the phone is massive, and doesn’t look right when it is in landscape mode.
• App store looks about as exciting as piano lessons
• The only feature they have that I see fit is their ‘Copy and Paste’ that is functional on the touch screen.

RIM stands to lose a lot of customers on the release of this phone. The one reason Blackberry users were reluctant to switch over to the iPhone was fear of the touch screen typing transition and non push e-mail. Now you move into the touch screen market, where Apple is on fire and has a much more powerful and easy to use typing interface with push email. Not to mention, HTC will have their touch Andorid phone soon that will take you down too. Also, what developers are going to flock to the Blackberry app store over the iPhone or Android store? Your app store is going to be a weak standarized platform that needs to have apps compatible with touch and non-touch phones. Good luck with that RIM. Just sell yourself to MSFT if you can.

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