Blackberry Storm

The first Touchscreen Blackberry

A lot of buzz has been flying around with the release of the Blackberry Storm on the Verizon network. The first Touchscreen Blackberry. This is a huge step for Blackberry to get it's foot in the door in the consumer market of smartphones.

The traditional Blackberry is focused on the business world for a variety of reasons. One of which is its Qwerty keyboard. I've spoken with many business people who have said that they would never use the Iphone, simply because of the touchscreen keyboard.

Blackberry is aiming on capitalizing on the positives and negatives of the Iphone. The keyboard of the Storm has a tactile feature that actually clicks when you press on a key. This is said to be the major advantage of the Storm over the Iphone. As you may know, many will swear by the Iphone and would never consider a Blackberry as a substitute. What many in the busines world have done is purchase a Blackberry for business and an Iphone for play. Blackberry is hoping to bridge the gap by producing a smartphone that not only offers the benefits of a Qwerty keyboard, but the tactile nature of it as well for increased accuracy and ease of messaging. Throw in the real-time messaging feature that is Blackberry and Apple might just have something to worry about. We will see how this plays out.