A study conducted by a mobile-phone warranty firm revealed that Apple’s iPhone has substantially less failures as compared to the failure rate of handsets from BlackBerry and Palm.
The SquareTrade study covered cell phone failure rates from over 15,000 new phones within a period of 12 months.
The team found that iPhones had a malfunction rate of 5.6 percent, as against 11.9 percent for BlackBerry smartphones.
Palm’s Treos range suffered the worst, with a failure rate of 16.2 percent during the same period.
Recently, BlackBerry came out with its latest the BlackBerry Curve 8900, which basically is the new version of the original T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve. 
‘Blackberry Storm’ was launched on Monday by Telecom operator Vodafone Essar in India. Storm is the premier touchscreen phone, which has been developed by the company exclusively with Canada-based technology provider Research In Motion (RIM). 
On Friday, Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled its first touch-screen BlackBerry device in the U.S. market. The launch saw long queues of customers standing in lines to grab their very own touch screen BalckBerry Storm. However, the question still remains that how will the new touch screen BlackBerry Storm compete against its biggest rival Apple-iPhone. 
For the past few years, BlackBerry, a phone and an Email device could be found clipped to the belts of high-powered professionals. However, it seems that the same device is not working for the company anymore, with iPhone picking up bigger market share. 
