Gigaom pronounces unreleased, untested and unproven Blackberry Storm an iPhone and G1 killer
Posted on 29 October 2008, at 8:52 am, by Wayne Schulz
I read with some interest this article from Gigaom about the unreleased Blackberry Storm. As you may know the Blackberry Storm is Research in Motion’s first ever touch screen Blackberry. It has been gathering some attention due to its lack of physical keypad and the use of haptic touch (meaning the screen moves when you push it). This phone however has not been released, has no price and no Wi-Fi. According to the article below, this phone is going to be both an iPhone and G-1 killer due to the willingness of Enterprise customers to embrace the phone (at whatever price Verizon decides to slap on it) and the fact that an app store (and some apps) will be coming real soon now. (insert eye roll here). Will this kill the iPhone and G-1? (The G-1 by the way is open source and backed by Google which probably has enough money to buy RIM several times over). Interesting article.
Why Blackberry Storm is An iPhone (and G-1) Killer
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October 29th, 2008 at 10:21 am
It’s very interesting that none of the commenters on the article seem to take the author to task.
I also love the term “iPhone Killer”. It’s the mantra of 2008/2009 and yet Apple sold more iPhones this Quarter than all the devices RIM sold combined and the G1 seems to be doing very well at this point too. So unless RIM does a much bigger push into the consumer space and expands beyond N.A. I’m not aure how this will be an iPhone killer or even a G1 killer.
October 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Yea, that article was insanely biased. Has the author even handled an iPhone? I could write a dozen reasons why the Storm is better matched against the iPhone in enterprise, and not one of those would be what that author listed. He clearly has an insanely high opinion of RIM.
October 29th, 2008 at 11:49 am
The author had used an iPhone for 3 months.
Heck, maybe the Blackberry Storm WILL be an iPhone and G-1 killer.
I just don’t think the “killer” title is backed by any evidence short of concluding that because it does email well that enterprise customers will flock to it.
Heck, someone could have called the whole Moto Q and Samsung Blackjack line of smartphones “killers” before they were released. After they came out everybody saw the battery life was awful and nearly every business that I come in contact with them cannot wait to throw them out.
It’s just not wise in my opinion to pronounce anything a “killer” (which truthfully hardly ever comes true) before you get an idea of how it performs in the field.
Just my .02
October 29th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
If the Storm doesn’t have Wi-Fi, I can’t see it being the iPhone killer. I do agree that based on articles all over, it seems the Storm is quite an interesting device.
I personally would be interested in the Bold instead since I MUST have a keyboard and have no interest in a touch smartphone.
Had the iPhone supported wireless keyboards, I may consider getting it. I think the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 may be quite a device, although it’s way too expensive. I’m drooling over that one.