Anticipation Builds As Verizon Wireless Prepares For BlackBerry Storm 2 Launch

It was right before Thanksgiving last year when hundreds of people waited in line to get their hands on the Blackberry Storm, the first touchscreen device from Research In Motion. But in the weeks following, the device was criticized as being drenched in bugs, and even the NYTimes’ well-respected David Pogue called it
Note 1 to Verizon: It's not about the phone. It's about the apps.
Note 2 to Verizon: re: "Verizon’s CEO Lowell McAdam is optimistic. He’s been carrying around the revamped device for a few weeks to see how consumers respond to it. In a Verizon store in New York, he showed it to a couple of NYU students. “They came back and said ‘Oh, my gosh.’ They were very excited."
Yes they were probably so excited that they tweeted about it on their iPhones.