Verizon Wireless CEO has BlackBerry Storm 2

The BlackBerry Strom was launched last year on Verizon Wireless, RIM had hoped that its first touch-screen phone would take the fight to the Apple iPhone, but things did not work out like that. Research in Motion is now trying for a second time with the upcoming launch of the BlackBerry Storm 2, which we have learned that Verizon’s CEO is already using.

Lowell C. McAdam has been carrying the Storm 2 around with him for a few weeks now, and it seems that the phone has been getting some attention from a couple of students. McAdam had visited a Verizon store while in New York, where he then started to chat with a couple of students.

According to The New York Times, McAdam said “I let them play with the second-generation Storm device,” he said. “They came back and said ‘Oh, my gosh.’ They were very excited. This is what they hoped the original Storm should be.” This certainly seems like a good start for the successor to the Storm; let us hope that it will be the same once the mass market gets hold of the latest RIM handset.

RIM has always been popular in the smartphone market, but others like Apple and Android are catching up quick. Research in Motion needs to up its game if they have any hope of competing with Google Android handsets, as they look set to dominate the market in the next few years.