BlackBerry Storm

I'm a tech crazy person first of all. From the first Palm Pilot, Palm 3, Zire, BlackBerry, iPod touch.. First thing first, iPhone is an MP3 player got touch screen and phone capability. On the other hand, STORM is a blackberry got touch screen and media capability!

Many people thought Apple is so inovated with iPhone, it is in fact just an improvement from Palm's long time and history line of product from PalmPilot, LifeDrive and Treo. The only thing that is really apple is the Music Store and Multi Touch technology with zoom in and zoom out.

STORM is RIM's counter attack to keep their market share. By giving its blackberry ability to have more fun with media rather than just a business tool!

Pro:

1. View, Edit office documents and PDFs, send/recieve on the go with large high res screen!
2. Nice digital camera capable of snap and send, video and send.
3. Impressive media capability with Video, Mp3, Youtube, and photos.

Con:

1. Scrolling of pages are slow or confusing.
2. Clickable screen & suretype technology has long learning curve.
3. Battery drain pretty fast. With heavy usage, you need to charge every day.

STORM's clickable screen is an answer to iPhone's tiny and over sensitive keyboard input. However, many people got used to iPhone's touch entry and got confused with the STORM. Once the learning curve is passed, I believe there will be more people like the clickable touch screen. The suretype is also an answer with iPhone's super tiny keyboard. However, suretype is also another software that take some time to learn it. With 2 new system to learn, no wonder many reviewer have negative feedback. With time, many people will find out, they can type faster and more accurate when compare with iPhone!! How long did it take you to learn how to use the keyboard on the desktop?

I also like to propose to RIM's enginner to build a physical keyboard for STORM. So user have 3 choice with Suretype, onscreen full quety, and open up the STORM and use a physical keyboard. (Like the cell phone LG keyboard)

Another proposal is to add a "thumbwheel" for scrolling text to the STORM. So beside using the hand jesture to scroll, the thumbwhell will be an excellent and perfect alternative.

With BOLD, or CURVE, one can not make appointment with one hand on the calendar. But with STORM, you can totally do it. Thanks to the touch screen allow you to pick a time and date quickly!! I can finally abandon my iPod touch as my mobile calendar.

Blackberry is about choice and compatability. Apple is about control and simplicity. That's another area that STORM will knock out iPhone. With STORM, people can connect with MSN, Yahoo, FACEBOOK, Flicker,....etc.. anything. At the end of the day, when people making their decision, Freinds are more important than having great music or great games to play!

Finally!! STORM is a business tool. iPHONE is a toy. Storm gives user the ability to run a full mobile mini office and allow its user to be produtive and make money. While iPHONE is an entertianment machine. With iPHONE, you buy a music, download an app, do an uprgrae everything is about spending money. Steve Job definitely is after your credit cards. We are entering a recession, people will buy STORM to make money. People have less and less pocket money to spend on games and music.

STORM make you rich. iPhone make you poor.