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With more and more cell phones, the software is so flawed that the buyers as beta testers feel. For the BlackBerry boss Jim Balsillie is apparently quite normal. As the Wall Street Journal on problems with the new top mobile BlackBerry Storm indicating he immature mobile firmware as a "new reality". The manufacture of highly complex smartphones in large numbers would lead inevitably to faulty software, says the chief of the BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM), which later with updates to be improved.

The BlackBerry Storm was delivered with errors, RIM necessarily because the delivery date on 21 November abide wanted. After the originally scheduled for October launch already had to be postponed, the manufacturer wanted no further delay in purchasing take further Balsillie said. But that RIM has a serious image damage taken into account. Because of its software errors, the Storm by numerous blogs and news portals to settle.

Despite a massive worldwide marketing campaign, which cost 100 million U.S. dollars should have, the Storm did not produce the hoped-iPhone-killer developed. Balsillie, the inherently different. By looking at the sales figures, he speaks of an "overwhelming success". Analysts estimate that the Storm in the first months sales worldwide only 500,000 times over the counter fell. For comparison: in the first three months alone, the network operator AT & T's 2.4 million iPhone 3G sold.