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- Gus1, on 09/27/2009, -0/+14No, he's talkin about the windows key on the keyboard. Probably because it is a crude 'shop of a storm mixed with a windows mobile with tactile keyboard.
- Stewart21, on 09/27/2009, -5/+19After using an iPhone for so long it is almost unbearable to use that little ball on a Blackberry and the storm is a horrible phone. Good job RIM! I look forward to seeing this new phone.
- Spanq, on 09/27/2009, -0/+11Keyboards on Blackberry's have always been fine. Even the tiny-ass buttons on the Curve made for an excellent keyboard. What they need to focus on is the horribly antiquated UI of their OS.
- suprdaddy, on 09/27/2009, -1/+10What's with the "Windows" key on the pic?
- NoNameWorks, on 09/27/2009, -1/+9I can see issues with this design, but it looks like a step in the correct direction.
- kkm3, on 09/27/2009, -1/+7wtf? How are you able to dial from the iPhone with it just in your pocket? and even unlocking it while its just in your pocket is pretty hard to do... ridiculous..
- Stewart21, on 09/27/2009, -1/+6I've owned an iPhone for years and carry it in my pocket everyday and it has never unlocked. Actually I don't even know how that is physically possible. You would somehow have to bump the button at the top AND have a human finger in your pocket that slides the unlock bar... I'm not sure what touchscreen phone you owned but it must have been a piece of *****. Apple made a quality touchscreen phone that didn't unlock on its own and I'm sure RIM will as well.
- anonymousmedic, on 09/27/2009, -3/+8The Blackberry storm is a horrible phone: It wasn't even worth the hype. Therer were so many problems with the US version at launch it almost made it unusuable. I hope they have learned from their mistakes.
- kkm3, on 09/27/2009, -0/+5Fail! did anyone notice the same comment posted 3 comments above yours?
- L0NER, on 09/27/2009, -1/+5I pity the foo who...
\fill it the blank - harvinator24, on 09/27/2009, -2/+6I hate commenting on devices that don't exist yet, but hopefully the storm two wont suck a dick.
- MtheoryX, on 09/28/2009, -0/+4I don't know anything about the Voyager, but I'm calling ***** on the unlocking and dialing with the iPhone in your pocket.
Even if that was possible (I don't believe it is), could you have put the passcode lock on it? Surely you can't sit there and say that would get unlocked in your pocket, too. - dabestdefense, on 09/27/2009, -0/+3nice catch, guess it is a lazy artist rendition
- Jaydo, on 09/27/2009, -0/+3but that creepy lady from the commercials will eat your soul if you do...
/scared - kingcam, on 09/27/2009, -0/+2A friend of mine who works at RIM (you make a lot of them when you live in Waterloo) told me one day that the Storm was really internally, and unofficially, a test of consept. They were expecting it to fail.
- dagamer34, on 09/27/2009, -0/+2It should have been keyboard + touchscreen to begin with. Blackberries are well known for their business nature, and regardless of how popular the iPhone is, if anyone needs to do a lot of typing on the go, they need a tactile keyboard to get any useful amount of work done.
Best of luck to RIM. Hopefully their keyboard slider will bring them back to true competitiveness. They are getting killed right now because of all the increased competition in the smartphone space these days. - gage006, on 09/27/2009, -2/+4Or you can just get a Palm Pre right now. Problem solved.
- popfrogs2, on 09/28/2009, -0/+2More importantly, RIM needs to have a unified UI that has a nice devkit that has all the graphics vectorized so they scale and look nice regardless of the actual phone the app runs on. I read a story before about a guy who tried to make something platform-independent, and coded it for the iPhone and the Blackberry. His iPhone app was finished quickly and the UI looked nice like everything else on the iPhone, thanks to the great devkit. The Blackberry app, by contrast, was a UI nightmare. It required him to rescale and resize every button and widget for each model of RIM phone, and on top of that he had to create all the widgets by hand first.
RIM doesn't realize the strength of the iPhone apps lies in its devkit (and to a lesser extent, a singular hardware platform that is standard across the board). - LordBoreal51, on 09/27/2009, -1/+2That's the menu key. It's RIM's logo.
- psykiv, on 09/27/2009, -0/+1Why are the numbers on YUI? On every bb ever the numbers are on WER
- ClearMan, on 09/27/2009, -0/+1I'm interested in how thick the keyboard makes it. Otherwise, I like it.
- thesonofdarwin, on 09/28/2009, -1/+2Alright, at this point I'm just going to believe some people don't want to admit that there might be an issue for whatever reason. Aside from the Google search I mentioned earlier on this issue, hey there are complaints on Apple's own forums.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID= ...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID ...
etc.
As I said in my original post, if people don't have the same problem, fantastic! I never suggested or implied that no one should like touchscreens or the iPhone. I said **I** did not like touchscreen phones, including the iPhone, stated my _valid_ reason and that's all. It seems like I've set a few people from defensive to offensive mode with my comment. That'd be like me panicking over Stewart's comment about not like the trackball. Why would I care if he liked it? I do which is why my current phone has one and not a touchscreen. I've not experienced any random calling/answering, something I come to expect as an inherent feature on phones, so I'm happy with what I have. I apologize to those who think I should have stuck with the iPhone despite my dissatisfaction. - kkm3, on 09/27/2009, -1/+2I hate those tiny-ass buttons on the curve. I don't know how people have liked that. just terrible. So hard to type.
- mousky, on 09/28/2009, -0/+1What gave it away? Perhaps the phrase "What Mr. T might look like (not actual image)" underneath the image?
- thesonofdarwin, on 09/27/2009, -1/+2The Voyager did it daily and I ended up always carrying it in my hand, which is very inconvenient. The iPhone not nearly as often, but any occurrence, for ME, is unacceptable. Obviously there are people with no such problem, I'm not arguing that. However, a quick google search on the topic will reveal I'm not the only one who has had this issue.
- popfrogs2, on 09/28/2009, -0/+1If it wasn't bound to Sprint with their old fashioned backbone (CDMA, yuck) more people would have one.
- thesonofdarwin, on 09/27/2009, -4/+4See, I'm the exact opposite which I guess is why they make many different styles of phone. I've grown to understand that I despise touchscreen on my phone. After the Voyager and iPhone I decided it was time to stop with my incessant need to have the newest technology and now am happily using the Tour (aside from its occasionally slowness). I love it on my iPod, but I don't carry my iPod in tight pockets all day like I do my phones only to find out while it was in there it somehow unlocked and I dialed random people, it has just about every application open, and probably has a few people on hold. I've yet to see a good screen lock mechanism and until that is accomplished I will never purchase another touchscreen phone. Why can I answer the phone with it locked?!? Stop the madness.
- coffeevanilla, on 10/15/2009, -0/+0Yeah it looked funny. The screen would be too heavy for the hands to properly type on that.
- custangro, on 09/28/2009, -2/+2RIM should just give in and use an Android based OS...
::two cents::
-C - popfrogs2, on 09/28/2009, -1/+1I'd say a 50% return rate is an epic fail. Keyboard cat played it off.
- andrejhoward, on 09/28/2009, -2/+1Fix the ***** STORM !! you alienated hundreds of thousands of users by basically telling them .. "here's more firmware that doesn't quite work right" Don't worry we're working on storm 2!!! How does that help all the people who bought the storm???
***** You Blackberry - popfrogs2, on 09/28/2009, -3/+1Yes, some iPhones get the "phantom dialing" bug, but it's much worse for the Blackberry Storm. I had a user that reported her phone calling people at 3am all by itself while it was on the charger.
- abdullahishtiaq, on 09/27/2009, -5/+3like nokia n97???
- kocurejd, on 09/27/2009, -3/+1I'm still waiting for an iPhone with the same specs. I know I shouldn't hold my breath for a slider iPhone, but a guy can dream...
- Chronico, on 09/28/2009, -2/+0pic is fake! Obviously a HTC Tytn II keyboard photoshopped in. unless you guys believe that a blackberry will have a Windows key LMFAO. doesn't mean there wont be a touch/qwerty blackberry soon, but it's not gonna be the joke pictured above.
- kkm3, on 09/27/2009, -4/+1not really...iPhone's keyboard is much faster for me as you save time by not pressing the buttons.
I have both the iPhone for personal use and bb for work and I hate typing on the bb. The buttons are tiny, you gotta use ur nails to type which isn't very comfortable.
my 3g lags a bit sometimes but the 3gs has no problems of that. W/o the lag a touchscreen keyboard is hands down faster than the tactile keyboard as you don't need to press down on anything. - calibud, on 09/27/2009, -5/+1http://rorr.im
- dascientist1337, on 09/27/2009, -9/+3Fail! did anyone notice the "windows" button on the keyboard
- jrm125, on 09/27/2009, -11/+4Anyone feel like RIM is starting to lose its way?
Here's to hoping they come back. - neseus, on 09/27/2009, -12/+2down with physical buttons!
