RIM

• Sometimes you just have to drop the ball and let the whole world know you f’d up. Such is the case with RIM and their first touch screen release, The Storm. After months of harsh criticism and poor sales, the Storm 2 is already in the works and is on it’s way to release at the end of this year or Q1 of 2010. Alain Segond von Banchet, Channel Sales manger for RIM in the Netherlands, reportedly spoke freely about the BlackBerry Storm 2 during the TeleVisie 2009 Expo in the Netherlands yesterday.
• Of the topics discusses, the Storm 2 will see an improved touch input method along with Wi-Fi capabilities. They will be ditching the SurePress technology and launching TruePress, which is rumored to be much more user-friendly and requires little to no push. According to BGR, Segond von Banchet supposedly also claimed that RIM will be slowing down the release schedule for devices in 2009 with no new devices except for the Storm 2, which means the Niagara will not be seeing light until 2010.
• What I hope is happening with RIM is they are going to take their third-party app platform seriously and make it a desireable enviornment for developers to want to jump on board. It’s tough to want to develop a set of apps for a phone lineup that has two completely seperate input methods (one physical, one sucky push-touch). Delaying all new devices until they are all one point with the new Storm 2 makes a hell of a lot more sense than to just keep rolling out similar looking devices with new names.

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