Verizon Wireless today announce Blackberry Storm, a phone with touch screen and is being called an iPhone competitor.

BASKING RIDGE, NJ, NEWBURY, England, and WATERLOO, Ontario — Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group (NYSE and LSE: VOD) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry® Storm™ will be available later this fall, exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Blackberry Storm

Blackberrry Storm features a 3.25-inch touch screen which is responsive just like the iPhone. Unlike iPhone, the touch screen for Blackberry comes with an added feature of confirmation before launching an application or initiating any process during which the full screen becomes a large button that confirms a user’s selecting when pressed, while in iPhone it just swipe or errant tap can launch an application or action.”Consumers and business customers alike will appreciate this unique combination of a large and vibrant screen with a truly tactile touch interface,” said RIM co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis. (more…)

iPhone faces its first competition with the launch of HTC Touch Diamond. HTC touch just like iPhone is getting the label of innovative phone, powered with a ground breaking 3D touch interface called Vibrant TouchFLOTM 3D user interface which will respond perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media. HTC Touch comes with a 2.8″ touchscreen which will even work if you are wearing a glove, the touch screen is quick and responsive due to smooth TouchFLO 3D interface & It provides animated access to contact, messaging, photos & music. The screen & VGA resolution are crisp and auto adjusts its back light based on the lighting conditions of the environment.

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Is apple getting ready again to shake the word, with iPhone will there be a Macbook touch, will we be free from the keyboards, mouse and will only interact with our computers using the touch screens, will it be accessible for all computer users.

Well the Rumor has started picking up, ‘Mac Daily News‘ reports Apples Secret Product Macbook Touch and Gizmodo says it too ‘Rumor:MacBook Touch coming in Oct‘.

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech. Slot-loading Super Drive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at “low” price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.In all honesty, we may have passed this story up, but we’ve heard vague reports from reliable sources that Quanta is busy building a touch product for Apple. This latest information seems seems to compliment what we’ve heard

Source [Mac Daily News] , [GizModo]