By now everyone knows that we are iPhone biased we have a couple stories that we wanted to bring to your attention about the BlackBerry Storm. It seems it is becoming a big let-down for a lot of BlackBerry users who opted to upgrade to the Storm. After some researchers have spent time with the new Storm it seems it was properly named to the point that it is precisely a "Storm"... like the editor in the second article will say at the end, a Storm is usually something it's dark, sodden and unpredictable! HA HA... read below

When I first looked at the BlackBerry Storm a couple of weeks back, I promised to revisit the topic after I had some more time to use the device on a regular basis. After all, it only seemed fair to put in the extra time on a product that had been billed as the first serious competitor to the iPhone since word began to leak out about it months ago.

Well, two weeks later I’ve come to the conclusion that the Storm has definitely not lived up to my expectations. While I have not encountered the litany of issues that some reviewers have (see David Pogue’s unusually snarky review for the New York Times), I nonetheless have been unable to embrace the Storm’s key selling point - the clickable touchscreen.

As old school as it may seem, despite my appreciation for the iPhone 3G - especially once battery life improved post-launch - I could never actually make the switch to it as my primary device for one reason - my touchscreen typing skills are horrendous. So the thought of a product that would meld the sexiness of a touchscreen device, with the tactile response of a traditional keyboard was intriguing, to say the least.

Unfortunately, the Storm hasn’t delivered on that promise. Read complete article…

Research in Motion (R.I.M.), the company that brought us the BlackBerry, has been on a roll lately. For a couple of years now, it’s delivered a series of gorgeous, functional, supremely reliable smartphones that, to this day, outsell even the much-adored iPhone.

Here’s a great example of the intelligence that drives R.I.M.: The phones all have simple, memorable, logical names instead of incomprehensible model numbers. There’s the BlackBerry Pearl (with a translucent trackball). The BlackBerry Flip (with a folding design). The BlackBerry Bold (with a stunning design and faux-leather back).

Well, there’s a new one, just out ($200 after rebate, with two-year Verizon contract), officially called the BlackBerry Storm.

But I’ve got a better name for it: the BlackBerry Dud.

The first sign of trouble was the concept: a touch-screen BlackBerry. That’s right — in its zeal to cash in on some of that iPhone touch-screen mania, R.I.M. has created a BlackBerry without a physical keyboard.

Hello? Isn’t the thumb keyboard the defining feature of a BlackBerry? A BlackBerry without a keyboard is like an iPod without a scroll wheel. A Prius with terrible mileage. Cracker Jack without a prize inside.

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