It seemed like a neat idea when Research in Motion (RIM) announced it in October: the first smartphone with a clickable touchscreen. I even enjoyed the few minutes I spent playing with a prerelease version of the BlackBerry Storm, which goes on sale Nov. 21 for $200 (after the $50 rebate from wireless carrier Verizon).
But after 24 hours of actually testing the new BlackBerry side by side with its main competition — Apple's iPhone 3G and T-Mobile's G1 (the "Google phone") — the novelty quickly wore off. I hate the click screen, and none of the handful of people I let try it had anything nice to say about it either. That's a shame because the Storm has a slew of handy extras that neither the iPhone nor the G1 can match. But an annoying user interface is a deal breaker.
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Source: Time
Nov 21, 2008, 05:14 AM
