"I want you, I need you
But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you
Now don't be sad
'Cause two out of three ain't bad" - Meatloaf, Two out of Three Ain't Bad

The Blackberry and I have had a crush.  Ever since it was a little pager with a wheel and 4 lines of text, I have needed my Blackberry.  I started out with two devices hooked on my belt, like Batman.  Then convergence (lovely word) took me to the promised land of multiple radios inside a device. Talk, text and e-mail... nerd-vana!  The newly coined Smartphone market started to take off.  Then, a camera, a browser over a network that wasn't painful and a form factor that didn't feel like I was carrying a waffle iron by my head!  I needed the latest and greatest that the boys in Waterloo could make.  Sure, I am the core market.  I am the enterprise guy.  I rely on the constant flow of data and have typically higher minutes of voice usage.  But I see all these "pretenders", these non-enterprise guys and gals with iPhones.  And they are cool.  I want, I need... cool.

Enter the Storm.  I didn't listen to the detractors.  I fought through the vagaries of the new touch screen and the slow response times.  I didn't give it back, like so many of you bandwagon jumpers... and now I have the Blackberry Appworld.  I have Shazam!  I have Weatherbug! I have burping, farting, light sabering cool shit on my phone!  I can feel my ponytail growing...

Alas, it is not "all that and a bag of chips."  I still have that pit in my stomach that the RIM gang has bitten off more than it can chew.  I feel that their attempt to beat Apple at their own game in the consumer space is a bit like, well the Microsoft Zune... Between you and me, this Storm device is clunky.  It's not smooth.  It weighs more than a waffle iron.  And it's battery life stinks.  I'm probably never going to love you Storm.  But I am not throwing you out either...

So here I am, the one that you love, waiting for an over the air upgrade miracle that solves memory issues and doesn't drain the battery.  BFF!