MAC BLOG SAFARI RIM Starts a Storm, Spy Photos Whip Up a Hurricane, Woz Rains on iPod

Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) kicked the week bad beside announcing the investigational BlackBerry Storm, the company's early touchscreen smartphone, which inside swivel jump-started the "iPhone Killer" headline.

While the animated bloggers be active with that one, orthodox Mac lovers of interest be stoke into a frenzy of anticipation over and done with the new MacBook lineup -- will they come Oct. 14? Are these infiltrator photo genuine? Fortunately, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) settled the date speculation with an allowed call, hence something's emphatically coming Oct. 14.

Then at hand be the Woz, who seem to infer the iPod be against the style out ...

"First and foremost, the Storm is a BlackBerry. You know what that provisions -- seamless merging with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and your business's communications servers. Mobile e-mail , Outlook integration and the domination to outlook and repress Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files is incorporated out of the sachet," Over the Air blogger Eric Zeman post.

After the commercial practicalities, the Storm features a 480 by 360 pixel, 3.26-inch touchscreen that also double by way of one capacious knob in favour of every tactile feedback when select items. It include a remodel QWERTY software grand grand piano -- associated to the iPhone -- but also have RIM's SureType keyboard for one-handed type in picture mode. The camera is 3.2 megapixels, it has a glimmer and zoom, and it annals video in not one, but two divergent resolution. The fixed milieu entertainer acting, all right, media. It has 1 GB of haulage out on seam firewood and supports microSD cards stirring to 8 MB. It run on Verizon's 3G gridiron.

So, the big behest for information: Is it really an iPhone assassin? Will consumers and business gravitate toward the Storm?

"For the guy who administer 60 BlackBerries already, it's an iPhone slayer because I can balance it exactly into my system and administer it's features and good centrally. It let user have the punter glockenspiel and whistle and the admin have the innocent setup that you call for in an enterprise," annotations null on the Over the Air transport out on the matter.