I am trying to find out if the Blackberry Storm will be coming to AT&T any time soon, and I ran across this post. It shows an alleged internal talking points document for AT&T sales staff when talking with customers interested in the Storm, which is available only Verizon. They are trying to convince the customer to stay with AT&T and go with an iPhone instead. Here’s the doc:
But most of these points are real crap. Follow along above, and here’s my counterpoints:
- Maybe multi-touch can enhance some features and keep me from flicking my finger over the touchscreen twice. Big deal.
- Maybe I can’t get my Storm to fart like the iPhone – I use my phone for business, so that’s probably a good thing.
- iTunes sucks. Period.
- The next version of Storm could have Wi-Fi. I’m patient.
- 99% of the time, I only want to have data access in about 1/3 of Texas. If I ever go around the world it will be for vacation. I want to leave my data access behind for a few days.
- Maps huh? I’ve been pleased with the maps on my Curve, and that is the Edge network without Wi-fi.
- Real HTML, well this one probably isn’t crap. I use Opera and it works pretty well, but a better mobile browser would be nice.
- Call with a touch of the finger? Seriously, all the phones I’ve owned for ten years have that. It’s called an “answer” button. And if the real-HTML-browser works well I could care less if it was Safari, Firefox, Opera, or whatever (not IE).
So I agree with one out of eight.
I’m a real fan of AT&T, and was even a customer of Cingular years before that. I’m not a fan of the iPhone. And I love the Blackberrys that I have owned. So overall, I’m waiting for a touchscreen Blackberry with a full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-fi, GPS, and 3G speed offered through AT&T.
Oh, Research In Motion, when will you come through for me?
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