I can do those with my Blackberry Storm too.
I understand this. However, the original iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. The Blackberry Storm was released on November 21, 2008. The Storm may be a fine device, but the device design is lifted almost whole cloth from the iPhone, including the touch screen, ear phones, etc. They released it a year and a half later, and there were some significant problems with the firmware until version 1.51.
They matched Apple on initial price and recently dropped the price to $99, to match Apple's $99 price on the original iPhone.
Nothing against the device, but it's an iPhone knockoff from the word go.