Storm

Apple, Google, BlackBerry and Nokia go up against each other in a battle for application store supremacy

The BlackBerry Storm has had a difficult birth, dogged by negative PR from luminaries such as Stephen Fry and numerous tiny but frustrating and niggly faults.

Says the Storm is "shockingly bad" and "embarrassingly awful"

Updated RIM's latest phone to roll off the new handset bandwagon, the BlackBerry Javelin, has finally been spotted in the wild and is set to debut at the end of this year under the guise of the Curve 8900.

The new battleground in the mobile market is applications. Gone are the days when offering push email and calendar syncing was enough to get the vote of the smartphone fraternity.

Exclusive TechRadar was at Vodafone's launch of the new BlackBerry Storm 9500 handset this morning, and we got a chance to quiz Lewis Hamilton on how he found the latest addition to the BlackBerry family.