RIM's latest gadget, the Blackberry Storm, is the first ever RIM touchscreen phone, the only phone Verizon Wireless will introduce before the busy holiday season, even if last year the company introduced four new phones before the holidays.

The device tends to attract its clients with a 3.2 megapixel camera with video capabilities, variable zoom, auto focus and a flash that has the ability to provide continuous lighting while recording video.

This is a great advantage, as the iPhone's camera does not offer video capture. Furthermore, the phone comes preloaded with DataViz Documents to Go suite for editing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files from the handset, as iPhone only offers its users the chance of viewing a document, not editing it.

We can also find a place in the advantage section for Storm's connection with the Blackberry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise.

That was the good part of the Blackberry Storm. What about the bad part? Two-high profile Mac fans have hit out at the recently released phone. Comic, author, presenter and actor Stephen Fry calls the Storm “shockingly bad” and “embarrassingly awful”, while New York Times technology guru, David Pogue, renames it “the Blackberry Dud.”

Fry said that the phone is rushed out unfinished, stating that is has an inaccurate touchscreen with an awful, slow and fiddly text input. Furthermore, the GPS is causing trouble. Fry laughed at the possibility that the Storm would be an iPhone killer.

As for Pogue, he says the Storm is inconsistent and confusing, it's like using a manual typewriter. In addition, the phone even muffs simple navigation tasks. All in all, it seems that there are fans and there are certainly non-fans of the Storm, but the sales will prove its capability.