The New York Times has slammed Research In Motion’s latest BlackBerry smarkphone, RIM’s first touch-screen the BlackBerry Storm whereby a scolding review by David Pogue.

Apparently Pogue is an Apple iPhone supporter and according to an analysis of Pogue’s work he writes wonderful stuff about the Apple iPhone 90 percent of the time, which is said got him the 3G Jesus phone before it got into the stores.

Pogue’s BlackBerry review says the Storm’s touch-screen was a bid to cash in on some of that iPhone touch-screen mania, and claims that a “BlackBerry without a keyboard is like an iPod without a scroll wheel”.

Pogue also states: “I haven’t found a soul who tried this machine who wasn’t appalled, baffled or both.”

Obviously Pogue is pro-Apple and anti-BlackBerry, but then again in the battle between two giants in the mobile arena it’s obviously going to get heated and dirty.

Source — theinquirer