It’s a BlackBerry?

Most people can recognize a BlackBerry from across the room. The full keyboard and square body is the signature elements to a BlackBerry phone.

But what if we took away the traditional look and modernized it… would it still be a BlackBerry?

Verizon will be offering a rebate on the new BlackBerry Storm which will completely change the traditional look of a BlackBerry. The new phone is now a rectangle shape and no longer has a traditional full keyboard. It has become completely touch screen.

This new transformation has been causing a lot of drama around the water cooler. According to David Pogue blog on the New York Times Web site he thinks it will be a BlackBerry Dud. He very passionate about the negative effects this phone will play on the BlackBerry persona.

“I haven’t found a soul who tried this machine who wasn’t appalled, baffled or both,” said Pogue

I personally think that the BlackBerry Company made this phone for competeing with the rising sales with the iPhone. I guess in the long run we will have to wait and see how well the new phone will do.

Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html?_r=1

-Monica Sullivan