Being sort of in the market for a smart phone
re: market
-MW
Looks good
I would not.
David Pogue likes it, but the big problems I had with the Blackberry Storm had to do with reliability of both the equipment and the synchronization software.
In a two year contract I went through four telephones, three Storms and a Storm 2. They would get harder and harder to use, and they would do inappropriate things when I punched a button.
I use Microsoft Outlook as my e-mail and calendar software on my laptop. The Blackberry synchronization software lost its ability to sync the calendar and then couldn't find contacts at all.in the last installation. Every time an upgrade was installed the software had to be reconfigured. As I remember, for example when getting a new laptop, the software was hard to find.
It was all a matter of my having to serve the telephone rather than of the telephone's serving me. Even when I served it, I could not get reliable use of it.
My Android telephone won't sync with Outlook either, a great disappointment, but mostly, not always, when I touch the screen it does what it is expected to do.
If I were buying a phone right now I would pick up a Windows 8 Nokia.
which phone did you have?
-MW
A Motorola
I have a Razr HD Maxx with the operating system that came with it, that I think upgraded once.
I tried an add on that I then read in an on line PC World article was not very good despite being about the only choice. It scrambled my contacts and did not work among three devices as they promised it would. I uninstalled it from my computer and did what I could to delete it from my telephone and Nook despite my $30 investment and the time I put into it. I think it was called the Missing Sync. DON'T MESS WITH IT!
When I had both my Blackberries, they synched perfectly with Outlook
Blackberries were the only phone that would sync perfectly with Outlook. No other phones I've ever used would sync both calendar and contacts with Outlook.
- AT
I had a deteriorating experience
They did for me for a long time too. In fact the operational phase of the experience with the software, perhaps a year and a half, was a model for how they should sync (or a near model; there wasn't quite enough information during the synchronization process to resolve conflicts, but I never had a big problem with that). When the software in new iterations began to fail though with the constant failure of the hardware, it was time to get out.
It looks great but I'll wait for the 2nd generation to see if I'll switch
back to Blackberry. I'm still a die-hard crackberry fan even though I love Android! 
Cheers,
Anthony
Hopefully there will be a 2nd Gen...
-MW