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Students served by Verizon Wireless reported experiencing no problems...
...idea when Research in Motion (RIM) announced it in October: the first smartphone with a clickable touchscreen. I even enjoyed the few minutes I spent playing with a prerelease version of the BlackBerry Storm, which goes on sale Nov. 21 for $200 (after the $50 rebate from wireless carrier Verizon...
...what's to like about the Storm? Plenty. My favorite feature is the built-in video-recording capability, which you won't find on either the iPhone or the G1. And, of course, no one can beat BlackBerry's e-mail expertise. Verizon, the sole service provider for the Storm in the U.S., has the best wireless coverage in the country. In addition to the instant delivery, or "push," of messages that CrackBerry users have become addicted to, the Storm lets you easily search messages by sender or subject, and cut and paste to your heart's delight. Even viewing...
...hundreds of Android Market apps available for the G1. There's no built-in music store on the Storm either, although a deal with Rhapsody is in the works, according to RIM. Worse, you can't talk on the phone while you surf the Web (a limitation of Verizon's CDMA network), and there's no wi-fi. Sigh...
Since it became clear that Verizon is a threat, Comcast has also stepped up its marketing. That includes discount packages featuring, say, cable TV, Internet and telephone service for $99 a month. While Comcast has lost 195,000 basic-cable customers in the past two sluggish quarters, it has added 1.2 million telephone subscribers, bringing that total to about 5.6 million, as well as adding 770,000 lucrative broadband customers...