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The first Blackberry came out onto the market in 1999, heralding the dawn of the convergence device. The Blackberry (before Blackberry Cellular Phones was originaly intended as a complicated pager. But its local messaging system was so popular that its rabid cult following forced an authority like Webster’s New World School Compendium to honor “crackberry” for being the “New Word of the Year”. RIM’s latest, The BlackBerry Storm, is a shot at un-kinging the mighty iPhone, which appears to hold a strong grip on being the #1 selling mobile device. The Storm’s partner on this is Verizon, as it is being offered as part of Verizon Phones, who is still reeling from its mistake of turning down Steve Jobs’ iPhone (Verizon as a carrier). If Verizon is trying to make up for losing the iPhone, at least it’s heading in the right direction. The Storm offers a widescreen touchscreen interface that has much of the same features as the iPhone but with some improvement for the touchscreen display. The outcome of these improvements ismixed. Unlike with a proper keyboard, onscreen keys are not able to keep up with fast typing. Those used to the classic Blackberry “thumbing” may not be in a position to send off messages with equal speed or accuracy.

The clickthrough interface requires a fair amount of practice if you want to get used to pushing the touch-sensitive screen down until there’s a click, in sheer contrast to the seamless interactivity available with the iPhone.

Likewise, since your finger is on it, the blue highlight that displays to confirm the active status of a given button is active is hard to see.

So Whether it’ll go down in history as a design fluke or an all out error, is yet to be seen. Last and maybe least, this Blackberry also does not have the predictive spelling aid functions of the iPhone. If you are a bad speller, the Blackberry won’t offer you much of a safety net. The browser renders HTML quickly and thoroughly, with context-sensitive page-dragging features allowing you to move around any given webpage. The only gripe here is that form fields are a little inconvenient to fill out. Though the browser has earned high grades, the lack of Wi-Fi on telephones is quite mysterious. While Verizon’s EV-DO coverage is wonderful, there are many circumstances under which Wi-Fi would have been very useful. As for the powerful, commercial style, Blackberry catches a top rating.

The benefit to leaving the tactile keyboard and trademarked trackball behind is a faster, flatter, three.25 in. cool glass front. Four familiar Blackberry keys lie at the base of the telephone, and they are: Telephone , Menu, Back, and End / Power. The wireless cell phone also comes ready with a mini USB key and also 3.5mm headset jack. One probable drawback to the design is the matter of whether metal construction is superior to plastic. The phone is joined with the even more wonderful Verizon (for cellular service coverage) that should keep the Storm well positioned in the race to be cell phone king.

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