November 25, 2008 by James Oliver
Like the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1 before it, it seems that many people were so eager to own RIM’s latest product, the BlackBerry Storm, that they lined up for hours in the freezing cold.
In Manhattan in excess of two hundred gadget fans lined up outside a Verizon store to get the phone. Many were less than pleased to be turned away after the store ran out of phones, not even an hour after opening. A portion of the would be Blackberry owners were so upset that they caused a scene which had to be sorted out by the New York Police.
Whilst, at present, there have been no other reports of disturbances, similar numbers of people were said to be camped outside Verizon stores all across the east cost of the USA.
Whilst this is all great PR for the Blackberry Storm, it’s important to remember that similar scenes greeted the debuts of both the iPhone and the G1. This is just another battle in the ongoing war for smartphone supremacy, a war that is set to intensify next year with the release of Palm’s latest contribution to the smartphone market. Like the G1, the device is set to run on its very own operating system – at present both the system and the phone remain unnamed.
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