BoyGenius is reporting that at least a birdie or two dropped by with a bit of bad news for those anxious for the BlackBerry Thunder Storm: it’s facing delays.
If what they’re hearing is right, “Technical Acceptance” testing and adjustments at Verizon HQ may set the Storm back 3-4 weeks to a mid-November window. As BlackBerry’s first touchscreen, the Storm is going to be harshly scrutinized and nit-picked - it’s not too difficult to imagine that the folks at Verizon are willing to push it back a fortnight or two for the sake of polishing it up.
I don’t care if it has all the iPhone’s missing features and then some, if it can’t match the superb user experience (other than the recent issues, which will be corrected) it isn’t going to be anything close to the success that the iphone has enjoyed. I just hope RIM has improved the BB’s maddening difficulty to change simple settings.
I have an IPhone and a BB Curve from Verizon. The Curve is by far the superior device. The only thing the Iphone has is its browser. If you don’t have available WIFI then it is useless. AT&T has terrible service. The Exchange interface is so so and is missing many of features of the BB. If RIM can match the browsing on the Storm then the IPhone’s brief run in corporate America will be over.