| Nice try, still no iPhone The Storm looks like a step toward the iPhone, but no killer by any means. No multi-touch, no WiFi, and lacks a lot in the syncing and media player as compared to iPhone.
The App Store has many choices, many are free. There is voice recording, voice dialing apps, to do apps, tons of games, GPS apps, Music apps like Pandora, Last.fm, Simplify Media, FlyCast, VNC, with many free apps.
There are several inexpensive battery add-ons that simply connect to the dock connector that make not having a removable battery irrelevant. In the middle of a call you can snap on the extended battery that will recharge and extend usage without even stopping. Some samples here: »www.reelsmart.com/2008/10/08/iph···tenders/
Verizon has as usual killed off many useful features. The iPhone has WiFi the Storm does not, This is a deal killer for me as I use Skype Out voice calling on WiFi in my home and at hotspots all the time. Fring a FREE app in the App Store is all you need. Fring also allows for SIP based VoIP calling as well as IM for AIM, Yahoo, MSN, etc. They also make you pay $10 a month for turn by turn directions! The App Store has well over 4,000 apps now.
Call me fanboy if you like, but I also have a Blackberry Curve and the iPhone wipes it out in almost all areas. A Touch screen is nice, BUT if it is NOT multi-touch and this will seriously limit the quality of the apps that can run out it.
The iPhone Media player is an iPod (best there is right now). Syncing media with Windows or a Mac is flawless, again not so with the Blackberry. |
