Whats wrong with the BlackBerry Storm?
Research In Motion debuted its much-anticipated BlackBerry Storm device on Nov. 21, and many Verizon Wireless retail stores sold out of the touchscreen phone immediately–as of Monday, the operator’s website reports new Storm orders will ship by Dec. 15, seven days later than the company promised a week ago. What’s behind the delay? Neither RIM nor Verizon has offered an official explanation, and given that analysts forecast sales of 100,000 to 120,000 units based on preliminary sales, it’s possible the Storm is simply in short supply. But there’s another theory, supported by New York Times tech columnist David Pogue’s blistering review of the device: The Storm is buggy as hell. Calling the Storm “the BlackBerry Dud” and likening the notion of a BlackBerry device without a keyboard to “an iPod without a scroll wheel, a Prius with terrible mileage [or] Cracker Jack without a prize inside,” Pogue writes of “freezes, abrupt reboots, nonresponsive controls [and] cosmetic glitches,” conclud
