Research In Motion is the company that produces the BlackBerry one of the most reliable and popular phone around. The blackberry’s trademark has always been the physical keyboard, which helped users accomplish all sort of tasks, like writing emails or instant messages.

Recently, research In Motion tried its luck with the BlackBerry Storm, the first touchscreen phone produced by the company, in an effort to bring down a notch the incredible sales the iPhone is having. Unfortunately for research In Motion, the new BlackBerry seems slow and it doesn’t compare with its predecessors in terms of quality and reliability.

The most noticeable thing at The Storm is that it doesn’t have a physical keyboard, though research In Motion could have included one like we can see in HTC’s G1, which leaves all the focus on the touch keys. The Storm utilizes a very ingenious system, called SurePress, where the entire screen of the phone acts like the button of a mouse.

In theory this sounds great, but in practice, the whole thing seems slow and inefficient. In order to type an email, the user must use the screen click, as touching the screen only highlights the letter. This is incredibly annoying and it really gives the impression of hard work when typing.

The Storm has two keyboards depending on how the user is holding the phone. The vertical keyboard uses keys that are marked with two letters, making the whole typing process even slower and annoying. The BlackBerry Storm is not the iPhone killer everybody was waiting for and, unfortunately, older BlackBerry models seem more reliable.