Don’t buy the Verizon Blackberry Storm…
Well, I knew it was coming after I read all the reviews. I’ve always been a lover of Blackberry phones. I have owned four different models over the years until I switched to my T-Mobile G1 as an early adopter. But the Blackberry Storm looked different.
The concept behind the Storm is that it is a touchscreen version of a great phone, trying to play catch up with the iPhones and G1s of the world. But in my opinion (and it seems in the opinion of others) it was rushed to market too soon. The great thing about a Blackberry is that they just work and deliver email to you flawlessly. The unfortunate thing about the Storm is that the guys at RIM (or whoever makes their software) forgot that every Blackberry user also expects for the Storm to just work too. The problem is not the capabilities of the phone, the problem is in the UI. It’s just badly conceived and obviously put together in a hurry. Verizon needed to respond to AT&T and T-Mobile and rushed the Storm to market. A big mistake. It seems that returns of the phone are as high as 50% in some areas.
So if you’re thinking of getting a new phone for the new year, do what I did. Take the plunge and buy yourself a T-Mobile G1. You won’t be disappointed. I love my G1 and it’s flexibility and applications. I miss my corporate email push a little - but not a lot to be honest (and I know I’ll get that back very soon). Everything else that I got on my Blackberry I still get - POP email, calendar (even syncs to Outlook via Google), contacts; and SO much more besides (just read some of my other blog posts that talk to G1 features).
You can read the full article on Engadget here that speaks to some of the problems of the Verizon Blackberry Storm.
