Full FeedVerizon says “soon” for the Blackberry Storm
Watch out iPhone, there’s a Storm on the horizon. Soon to be released by Verizon, the Blackberry Storm just may give the popular iPhone a run for their money.
Originally rumored to be called the “Thunder,” the name became the more powerful “Storm.” And the name just may fit. The device features a 3.2 megapixel camera that takes both stills and video (the iPhone’s 2.0 megapixel camera can’t do video unless you jailbreak it). The Storm also has turn-by-turn navigation (nope, iPhone doesn’t). Want to swap out batteries? The device formerly known as the Storm has a removable battery (sorry, iPhone. We know your users have to go to Apple).
The touchscreen is supposedly a little thicker than the iPhone, but it also has the bare bones control panel. Just four buttons on the bottom. According to an internal Verizon briefing sheet, the Storm will have an “innovative ‘click’ touch screen for smooth, precise text input”. Nice.
Verizon has an exclusive deal to sell the Storm, although no real details are released yet, for price or date. They just say “Soon”.
Via [freep]
Product link: [Verizon’s Storm Page]
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They still don’t get it - it is not just the phone; there are a lot of sexy devices out there. It is a broader picture, comprised of the platform - a standard deployment environment for applications (unlike the multitude of blackberry devices, all mutually incompatible with one another - a developer’s nightmare leading to the dearth of available software), and the infrastructure. ITunes as a management platform, affording a single place for data, as well as music, videos and podcasts, is brilliant. Blackberry server is still more robust than MobileMe, but that will change as well, providing business class mobile data management for the masses, without the complexity of managing a Blackberry server environment.
Until the industry figures this out, all the new devices in the world will never supplant the rapid growth of the iPhone platform. We need this competition.
Too bad Verizon, Sprint, Japan and S. Korea chose to go with a technology (CDMA) that is incompatible with the rest of the world. In the US, this fragments the market and creates unhealthy competition in forcing parallel development of 2 incompatible communications infrastructures at the cost of impeding rich features to the customers.
on September 21, 2008 at 10:21 AM - LINK