Alex reports that the new BlackBerry Storm is getting some bad reviews … from places like Engadget.

“Team RIM has got to be a little disappointed this morning. After the months of hype, the first reviews of BlackBerry Storm are arriving, and they’re not pretty.

Neither Engadget nor Boy Genius Report gave a thumbs up to the device, both opining that for casual users the complexity would be a turn off, and for power users the features come up short.”

For David Pogue’s bad review on the Storm, see jkontherun:

“Pogue makes it clear, really, really clear that he hates the Storm. His review is brutal to say the least and if my experience with the Storm had been anything like his I would be just as grumpy. He’s not finding anything that works the way it’s supposed to work and it’s obvious he’s just plain irked at the phone.“

Note the comments on James’s site too; some think that David is showing Apple bias.