We wouldn't have had the BlackBerry Storm without the iPhone popularizing touchscreens first, for example.
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The latter being of interest since the iPhone and BlackBerry Storm are considered netbooks by their makers.
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Last year's launch of the Blackberry Storm by Verizon Wireless was hampered by shortages and glitches, tripping up its early momentum.
And its touchscreen phones, the BlackBerry Storm and Storm 2, are garbage compared to the market leaders, including Apple, HTC, and others.
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Despite attempts at touch-screen, multimedia-centric phones with the BlackBerry Storm and Torch, RIM has been lambasted by critics for making slow and clunky products.
But it's clear they're putting more stock in it than the ill-fated BlackBerry Storm, which hit an iPhone-dominated smartphone market with a resounding thud in 2008.
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Those who looked at the Blackberry storm assoicated the look of that phone with Apple, and only 4.7% of those surveyed associated the look of that phone with Apple.
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Well, well, looks like Unkie Walt accidentally programmed his calendar to publish a combined preview of the Motorola CLIQ and the BlackBerry Storm 2 a little earlier than everyone else.
Can Apple regain the prominence it achieved after the launch of the iPhone with the coming releases of the Google G1 and the BlackBerry Storm, which are bound to steal market share?
Even more interestingly, they're also saying that the price increases could be in anticipation of some pricier handsets in the offing, perhaps even including the BlackBerry Storm by the end of the year.
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If you're one of the many, many BlackBerry Storm buyers who cleaned out inventories at Verizon stores on Friday, all that time spent waiting in the cold just became a bit more worthwhile.
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Sadly, the iPod, iPhone, Zune and Windows Mobile aren't supported yet, but the rest of the device list is pretty decent: it includes the BlackBerry Pearl, Storm, and Curve, the G1, Sony Ericsson Cybershot and Walkman phones, the Kindle, Nokia N and E-series phones, and most digital cameras and flash-based camcorders.
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Either way, perhaps the most interesting thing about the hire is that RIM just underwent a major renovation of its brand image around the time of the Bold and Storm releases -- and BlackBerry users tend to love the way their devices generally operate (Storm notably excepted), so any jarring change to the experience risks alienating huge swaths of the base.
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