If you get David Pogue’s email newsletter you will have laughed out loud at his description of the Blackberry Storm. Stephen Fry follows up with a storm warning of his own (no prizes for the most puns on Storm you can find). A Blackberryphile client of mine bought one and sent it straight back.
In other words it is a dud (allegedly).
The interesting question though is: what happened? Vodaphone have been hyping this like mad, and in the process must be damaging both their own brand and the Blackberry brand as they dissapoint customers.
Some engineer in Vodaphone must have told his boss not to touch this one. Did he/she get ignored? Was there a groupthink process that intimidated the engineer? Were they so desperate for an iphone competitor that they decided to over-rule our hero?
We shall never know.
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