[Alienwhere]

Well, from what the commercials would have you believe, the Storm may actually be the second coming in all its glory, freeing us from the tyranny of all the inadequacies of the iPhone. But in actuality, although I don't know anyone who has one yet, from all the reading I've been doing, the consensus on the device ranges from "meh" to "get it out of my hand before I pitch it into a wall".

I played with a G1 about 2 weeks ago, and while it was neat, it had none of the finish that the iPhone has. I'd like to get my hands on a Storm and see for myself, but frankly, I came from a Curve, and the idea of the BB OS slapped onto a different device and slightly reconfigured to accept touch input does not leave me with a huge amount of confidence. It's almost as though in doing this, RIM is proving that they really shouldn't venture into those fields in which they're not dominant, as counter-intuitive as that might sound to some people. They rule the school with qwerty-based smartphones, they should fix the bloody OS before they try to blow everyone away with hardware gimmicks. The software is where the iPhone shines, and that seems to be missed by RIM devs.

Instead of saying "me-too" they should be saying, "well, that's nice, but how about this instead?".