"Another week, another new touch-screen phone," writes Technologizer. The just-launched Blackberry Storm of course will be measured against Apple's iPhone 3G--both offer phone calling, mobile browsing, document editing, music, camera, GPS capability, and more--but Technologizer highlights the differences: Storm has wireless synching, Verizon as a telecom carrier, and is a world phone. Adds Engadget: its color screen has "a unique clickable surface so that the entire thing can be pressed downwards--just like a real button." As Crenk puts it: "Less touchy and more pushy." Early reviewers dig the press-downy feel of the Crackberry's first touchscreen, which engineers at Blackberry-maker RIM called the Apple killer. "It's a unique and finely tuned sensation, and I liked it, but I could definitely see people loathing it," says Gizmodo. The Boy Genius Report has a viral video (made by Verizon) of wowed pedestrians feeling it for the first time, though the site reports they were all paid $20 for their appearances.

Good Read suggests the Storm may help the Blackberry transcend its stodgy corporate image, while Brier Dudley blogs that it may block invasion of the enterprise market by both the iPhone and Google's G1 phone. But The Digital Home figures no matter how great the Storm is, it just can't compete with the iPhone for the general public's love. Indeed, Valleywag reports on a Piper Jaffray survey showing that 8 percent of high school students have an iPhone and 22 percent want one.