Research In Motion (RIM) introduced the touch-screen BlackBerry Storm. The eagerly awaited smartphone comes with many of the features of Apple's iPhone and thus promises to become its most serious competitor.

The Storm has 3.25-inch touch screen that has a 360 by 480 resolution. Like the iPhone, the Storm has support for multi-touch interface, but RIM's device will have haptic feedback for its virtual keyboard, and it will be capable of cut and paste. The keyboard will have RIM's SureType layout in portrait mode, and it will be a full QWERTY layout in landscape orientation.

According to RIM, the BlackBerry Storm will be available later this fall exclusively to Verizon Wireless users in the U.S. and Vodafone users in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The Storm will also support 3G. However they didn't know how much the Storm would cost.

The BlackBerry Storm offers a full HTML browser that works in both portrait and landscape orientation. Icons along the bottom of the display enable accessing and switching between page view and column view; users can also toggle between pan and cursor modes. The browser supports file downloads, streaming audio and video, and built-in RSS support. Like all BlackBerry devices, the Storm also delivers mobile e-mail and messaging, supporting both personal and corporate e-mail, SMS, MMS and instant messaging from most consumer and enterprise platforms.

It makes your movements a little bit more precise than the iPhone and gives you the reassurance that you're setting in motion only the things you want.

Nevertheless The Storm doesn't have Wi-Fi. It will offer V Cast Music with Rhapsody soon.