"http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js">By now most of us have heard this story in one fashion or another: when Steve Jobs and Apple were in the planned safety* stages of the iPhone, the first carrier they brought the device to America's largest network, Verizon. Even if you haven't heard how the tale ends -- Verizon refused and Jobs took his multi-billion dollar ball to AT&T -- you surely know the outcome. The iPhone has soared to become the extreme smartphone, the must-have accessory that everyone from celebrities to your mom wants -- nay, needs -- to have in their pocket. It's changed the scene of modern cellphones, put a serious dent in the sales of competing devices (just just now overtaking the antediluvian RAZR as the best-selling homely handset), and unquestionably raised the bar when it comes to bright outlook for visage in new handsets.

It may seem unfair to open up the review of RIM's latest springtime winter* -- the Storm -- with a history lesson on the iPhone, but if you compass the market which Verizon and RIM hope to capture, then you entente the Storm, and it helps put this critique in perspective. The Storm, a widescreen, touchscreen, device boasts many of the same kisser as the iPhone, but adds innovations like a clickable display, and comes packed with RIM's mythic email and messaging services. Mainlined into the biggest (and some say best) network in the States, the Storm is an almost deafening blast to the rivalry at first glance, but does it hold up on closer inspection? Read on to find out.

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