BlackBerry Storm takes on the iPhone

The BlackBerry Storm looks like the strongest rival to the iPhone and is sure to make this fall’s smartphone race the most intense yet.

Designed to satisfy the needs of both consumers and business customers, the BlackBerry Storm smartphone combines the powerful communications features, global connectivity and personal productivity advantages of the BlackBerry platform with a revolutionary touch-screen technology that dramatically enhances the touch interface and enables easy and precise typing. The world’s first “clickable” touch-screen responds much like a physical keyboard and also supports single-touch, multi-touch and gestures for intuitive and efficient application navigation. Read more

BlackBerry Storm aims to one-up the iPhone

The BlackBerry Storm, coming soon to Verizon, is about to give the iPhone some serious competition. Seriously
It’s a touchscreen that appears in the photograph Verizon is showing off on its website to be a bit thicker than the iPhone but shares its minimalistic controls, with just four buttons along the bottom. The Verizon advertisement for the handheld asks but doesn’t answer the question “What does it feel like?” confirmation to me that the rumored haptics feedback - that little bump that signals a completed task - will indeed be part of the device. Read more