blackberry storm

• ‘‘The BlackBerry Dud‘ as the New York Times author David Pogue puts it, goes in depth about the failures of the Storm. It’s not a good review for the Storm by any means.

So what exactly is wrong?

1. The entire screen acts like a mouse button. Heard this one before. RIM decided to go the safe route with its first touch screen and make the scrolling process seem almost like you had a little track ball underneath the screen. This depletes the intuitiveness of the touch screen. This also ruins a lot of finger freedom gestures such as the beautiful scrolling through your contacts with one quick finger swipe.
2. Keyboard Issues. The keyboard lets you type in either landscape mode with a QWERTY full size keyboard or vertically which enables a two-letter per button SureType (Predictive Text) system, which many say will not be effective on the touch screen. One of the big problems with the SureType keyboard is innacuracy with website URL’s and last names. It is also missing the default @, ‘.com’, ‘.org’ buttons for the web and email keyboard. You have to click another button to retrieve those.
3. Accelerometer. Slow screen transitions.
4. Internet Connectivity. The phone cannot get online at wireless hotspots like the iPhone or last generation or The Bold.
5. Bugs: Freezes, abrupt reboots, nonresponsive controls, cosmetic glitches.
6. Extra Fees. RIM is trying to charge $10 a month for turn by turn GPS navigation and $3 a month for Visual Voicemail.

So, Whats’s Good:

1. Voice Dialing
2. Copy-and-Paste (WTF Apple?)
3. Programmable side buttons
4. Removable battery and a standard headphone jack
5. Reading and editing capabilties for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint attachments.
6. Expandable storage. An eight-gigabyte memory card comes in the box.
7. Web browser. The best ever for a Blackberry, featuring: double-tap to zoom, easy screen scroll.
8. Camera. Slow, but it has a very good flash, a 2X zoom and a stabilizer

NYT

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