iPhone Killer

I currently have cell phone service through Verizon. I love their service, but let's be honest, they get the worst phones. For years, every AT&T commercial I've seen has made me jealous that I'm not with the company. They just get the coolest phones. Verizon gets the hand-me-downs. So my wife and I have finally broken down and decided that for Christmas this year, we are buying each other iphones and switching to AT&T. Meanwhile hoping that either Verizon will gain rights to the iphone or that they will finally get a cool phone of their own. They've tried vigorously for the past year to come up with what could be considered "The iphone killer." Every attempt has failed miserably. Apparently just having a touchscreen doesn't automatically mean that it's as good as the iphone. You mean there's more to a phone than that? Hhhmmm.

*Insert the sound of trumpets*

Then blackberry announces the Storm. Oh I was so excited to see it. A touchscreen blackberry that can finally rival the iphone. Maybe I can have an excuse to stay with Verizon after all. So I hurried into a Verizon store to play with one. While playing with one of the Storms, a 10-year old kids strolls up next to me to play with the other Storm on display. Within a minute he exclaims, "This sucks." Yep. I hate to say it, but he was right. Even a 10-year old can see that. I'll give it a month before all the business men that bought it end up returning it. Thankfully it comes with a 30-day money back guarantee. Blackberry is going to wish they hadn't done that. Every time you press a button, it takes at least 2 seconds before the desired action occurs. The touchscreen isn't even calibrated right. The features didn't work. It took 5 steps to do the simplest tasks. The side buttons activated the dumbest tasks that no one would need in a hurry. Never before have I been so disappointed in a device that I have had so much hope for. If I was an executive at Blackbery, I would be thoroughly embarrassed. There have been many attempts at overtaking the iphone. All have been massive failures. Yes, this is maybe the first concept that could compete, but come one people. Next time these companies have a brilliant idea for a phone, they need to sit on it and develop it for another 3 or 5 years and then release it. I'm not sure these companies realize that they're dealing with a device that has over 300 patents. That means the iphone has over 300 features that either no one has accomplished or even thought of to this point. You don't just come up with something like that over night. For now...there is no iphone killer. No one even seems to be offering up any competition.