Verizon to sell BlackBerry Storm for under $200

In their quest to compete with the iPhone, Research In Motion has developed the BlackBerry storm. For quite some time BlackBerry has had a grip on the corporate environment. That was starting to fall apart with the iPhone.



We can attest to that from our own informal sampling here. For a long time we would only get requests to create BlackBerry compatible applications. These days it is about 50/50 with the iPhone and BlackBerry.

The new interfaces sports a few unique features that may please iPhone haters. The screen actually indents when you press it - so when you type on the visual keyboard it actually feels like you are pressing buttons. It also has excellent integration with Microsoft Exchange - something the iPhone has, but it is still far from what it should be.

Still, the look is missing that something special that the iPhone has:



And it is lacking in specifications. The stock $199 model (That Verizon will subsidize) Comes with only a 1GB memory card. In contrast the $199 iPhone comes with 8GB.

Still I think in the corporate environment the BlackBerry will win over for now - it has some of the best tools for controlling and monitoring use.

We are starting to toy around with a few test apps on the iPhone here...maybe we will get one of these also and see what type of apps we can come up with :)Popularity: 1%

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