Last December (2008) I jumped on the opportunity to be one of the first to get a brand new beautiful Blackberry Storm. It was my fourth Blackberry to date and the second in the same year. I fell in love with its bright beautiful screen that displayed amazing pictures of my daughter and boasted to all my family and friends about how chock full of awesomeness the Storm was - for about the first week. I spent the next 8-9 months checking various websites for any news of operating system upgrades, even unofficial ones, because the majority of the functions on the phone had problems. A ton of them still do.
About a week and a half ago I decided that it was time to try something different. My dedication to Blackberry was lost. I have a heavy reliance on Google's services (Apps, Voice, Email, etc.) and I evaluated my phone choices based in large part on their integration with Google's services. My research concluded in 3 possible platforms: Android, WebOS (Palm Pre), and the iPhone.
I decided that because I am so entrenched in Google's services that I would try their Android platform first. I received the MyTouch 3G yesterday and let me say that it has simply blown me away in terms of the operating system's elegance and richness. If using Android and MyTouch 3G is like having the construction equipment and manpower to build a high-rise building at my fingertips, the Blackberry and its software (all recent hardware/software versions, not just the Storm) is like having a box of Lincoln logs or Legos in the hands of a 3 year old (nothing against you Lego, I think you are awesome).
I can't say that the MyTouch 3G is perfect, it is not - but it is light years ahead of anything Blackberry has and I am embarrassed to have been salivating at the Blackberry scraps of sub-par applications and functions due to the Blackberry's overall significantly inferior platform.
Sorry Blackberry, it is time to jump ship and move from the stone-age to the modern age. And to Verizon Wireless, shame on you for letting the Blackberry Storm come to market.
Follow me Blackberry users... the vast majority of you won't be sorry, I PROMISE.
