I do believe RIM has gone to great lengths to perfect the overall hardware of the phone, but it’s time for the company to get aggressive in competing in the touchscreen smartphone arena. To do so, I believe the company needs to drop its innovative SurePress mechanical-touch input for a strictly capacitive touch interface — no longer as much as novelty as it was a year ago — allowing for the device to be thinner and lighter.
I also believe RIM needs to redesign BlackBerry OS from the ground up for a touch-only interface. There are elements of the Storm2’s UI that work well via touch, but too many elements of the operating system are clearly holdovers from a physical QWERTY keyboard past.
Color me stunned. Considering the wild success of the first one, I thought the Storm2 would blow us all away.