Lewis Hamilton supports the BlackBerry Storm
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in Lewis Hamilton, Formula One, Storm, smartphone, iPhone, BlackBerry, Apple on
At the launch of the new BlackBerry Storm 9500 handset this morning, new Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton of McLaren declared that he preferred the BlackBerry over the iPhone.
At an event set up by Vodafone, who happen to sponsor the McLaren Mercedes Formula One racing team.
As you can see the headline above probably qualifies as one of the most obvious statements of the day. It would have been great if he said Apple’s gadget was better just for amusement’s sake, but that was pretty much unlikely to happen.
What it does do however is mark the start of the Chrismas smartphone wars as the young pretender in the Storm looks to knock Apple off its perch and claim the title as the must-have smartphone.
And it does look like BlackBerry has stolen a march with its new gadget- both businesses and consumers seem equally excited about what it can do -
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Loading ...Comment by Viking272 - November 6, 2008 on 6:53 pm
I was there this morning. Fair play to Lewis for his efforts on the track, recently. He did a Q&A session plus went on to demo the unit to the audience about the features he likes. Being an international jet setter he’s hammering email/web and music.
My thoughts…It is BlackBerry afterall and has so many pluses over iPhone - but more so if you’re a corporate user. iPhone battery is terrible and there is very little around security and feature lockdown/logging at the moment. Mind you I can see iPhone being great for those web dev or ad agencies. It’s pretty but email is weak. I don’t want my corporate users transferring music/photos and movies to a phone. Its there to make calls and receive emails…
Storm is not too bad but the one to look out for is Javelin AKA Curve 8900 which rumour has it should be out in 2008 also.
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