BlackBerry Storm Review

BlackBerry Storm Review

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Published on: 25 November, 2008 by PhoneArena Team

BlackBerry Storm Review

What’s this, the new BlackBerry? Woah, it has no keyboard. And…did it just click? You’ve never clicked a screen before, is that supposed to happen? Is it supposed to feel so…tiring? And why is this screen wiggling around, am I supposed to be seeing the circuit board? Why is it so heavy; the iPhone isn’t this heavy? The interface is pretty neat, but why are page transitions taking so long. Did it just flip orientations on me? I didn’t even move it. Wait, now I did move it and the orientation isn’t following...

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Got it Tried it sent it back Poor Performance Poor Support poor customer service APPLE WINS
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I have had mine for a few day and I like it. It is no iPhone killer but the Storm works for me and I refuse to go to AT&T. Been there already. Verizon is much easier to work with. I do not text very much so once again the Storm suits me well. Music plays well and good access to internet and calendar updates to Outlook. One more thing, it even works great as a phone. What a concept.
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I'm never going to this website again. Back to the old phonescoop.com I suppose. *sigh*
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you guys didnt change much in your review. To move from a 5.5 to a 6 is just ridiculous. But everyone has their opinion. Maybe u are just stuck on the iphone which you gave a 9. For a multimedia phone that doesn't do mulitmedia messaging or video recording and has a 2mp camera even with the 2nd upgrade without stereo bluetooth (Are you kiddin), no removable battery, no additional memory. Above all that, it doesn't even allow a full qwerty keyboard when holding it horizontal. It's intuitive, with a nice os and 3rd party application center, that's all. Therefore a x1 should get like a 15 cause it has all that plus an original keyboard. Just stick with your iphone. The storm isn't heavy and it is a better aerodynamic phone than the iphone which is too long and impossible to hold. I have an itouch which is the same. You are worried about the screen wiggling, but what about iphone screens cracking and you having to pay full price. If my screen doesn't click, guess what, I can take it back for another that ships overnight with a fee of 50 bucks at the most. What do you know about phones? Tell me.
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true they didnt change shit but there is another update coming that is a huge improvement over this http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/11/30/blackberry-storm-os-47076-other-versions-left-dead-in-the ir-tracks/
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don't worry, by time the next softwear upgrade comes along they'll have this review buried too deep to find.That way they don't have to put down their I-phones to write a fari review. I'm not a huge fan of the Storm, i'm holding final judgement for the next upgrade, but man, talk about a hatchet job
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Define hatchet Job.
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Can't really blame Phone Arena for rating the Storm so harshly. After all, RIM believed that the Storm could take on the iPhone.
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The storm is my first experience with using a touch screen device, and so far so good. I disagree with the originator of the message I found the typing accurate and easy from the begining to say that it is in accurate and atrocious is utter nonsense. Exhausting? hardly. Its no more difficult than my 8830. The difference between the two is that if people want a toy they'll buy the iphone, and if they want a well thought out device the'll buy the storm.
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its amazing how they have a front page article for every IPHONE UPDATE for bug fixes that did NOT fix the bugs, but you really have to strain ur eyes to find that BB update article.. is it here? :(

the storm already beats out the iphone in most categorys that mean anything, features, function, business function. the iphone still has its screen functionality and overall slickness. a few more updates and the storm will have that as well. the iphone is yesterdays toy.
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OK...seriously. If you add up the score the phone received you get 65 divide that by 8 you get 8.1? How did the storm get a 6 if the average is an 8.1? Phonearena is beyond biased! Thanks for making it easy for me to pick which web site to NOT trust for honest reviews on cell phones from the staff. Congrats.
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