If you’ve waited for Blackberry to finally come out with the iPhone stopper, you might be happy with the newest phone: the Blackberry Storm.  The Storm’s most talked about feature is its interactive keyboard.  The keyboard is on the screen like the iPhone, but it differs in that it is it vibrates after you type the keys.  It also provides a texturized feel to it for knowing you’ve touched the right keys.  Further, you can flip the phone to landscape view to type on a full-length keyboard.  Definitely an improvement from the Apple product although you can call it a bit of the “we can do it better” montre.

The phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera that can also shoots video.  The iPhone’s 2.0 megapixel camera cannot take videos yet.  Also, in contrast to the iPhone, you’ll get turn-by-turn navigation with the new Storm.  Another nice feature is the ability to replace the battery with a spare if you’re running low on juice and away from your charger.  With the iPhone, you better be close to your charger since only Apple support is able to take out the wedged in battery.

The phone, like the iPhone, has a touchscreen.  Unlike the touchscreen, it has removable memory for adding more pictures and other info.  When you take a pic with the iPhone, you can’t IM it to your contacts.  The Storm takes care of that.  Like the iPhone, the web navigation is crisp, clear, and bright.

The price has been given as the launch date should be in the next couple of weeks.  This phone will only be offered by Verizon at first.  Sounds similar to the att alliance iPhone had at first?  There are definitely many similarities between the iPhone and Storm, but the Storm’s specs improve upon Apple’s phone.  Based on the specs, we can see a lot of iPhone users making the reverse switch to the Blackberry, and lot of company PC and Mac users, going with the Storm especially if the keyboard is comfortable to work with.  Many iPhone users’ biggest gripe is the glass keyboard providing unsuccessful results for their big fingers.  The Storm keyboard might convert these unhappy iPhone campers. 

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