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All those people who had their wallets out just put them back in their pockets.]]>Nov 20th 2008 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 20th 2008 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
Both OS's are bringing Touch navigation to OS's never designed for such usage, and I think the Touch HD does it better.]]>Nov 20th 2008 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 20th 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 20th 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
As everyone knows they are very pro Apple and for them to say something is better than one of there products might be very very hard for them or impossible.

The review might be 100%, but it's going to come down to opinion if the buyer thinks it's just as good as the Iphone.

I take this review with some truth, but I will have to see it for myself because again it's Engadget...]]>Nov 20th 2008 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
I said..."damn"

I thought the STORM was gonna blow my iPhone away. Besides Copy/Paste, which it seems to me iPhone should have right now, the Storm seems to me from this review to be a wasted effort.

Did they say that there was no WiFi at all?

I have never been an apple lover, but I gotta admit, the iPhone and their new Mac Book are ABOVE EXCELLENT products and they just seem to be getting better while others are playing catch up.
No the iphone doesn't appeal to many hardcore gadgeteers who perfer SD cards, DivX and other specialty features, I'm happy to own one and I like what it does for the $300 I spent on it.]]>Nov 20th 2008 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 20th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
Thats what journalism is supposed to be - harsh and unrelenting. Advertisers buy space based on eyeballs and everyone wants an honest voice they can rely on. Engagdet will be fine. Keep the good reporting up guys.]]>Nov 20th 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
"But the true test of any touch-based phone is typing, and we won't hold any punches here: we're in love. In fact, we like it enough to pit it against regular button-based keyboards,"

So what happened? How can you love it and then say it is terrible?]]>Nov 20th 2008 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/1) swappable batteries - keeps you mobile, because isnt that the point?
2) expandable memory (will take 16GB micro sd card) so storage is never a problem.
3) the camera, the iphone is 2.0px without a flash, which even by the cheapest phone our store sells (£30) is quite poor.
4) screen quality, as i have already mentioned, and stereo bluetooth, the sound is very good too.

now i know i havent put the screen in the pros, and thats because it wont be for everyone, no phone ever is, but the pros above really do show where the iphone lets itself down
i hope this will help you lot, because i know its not out in the US yet, so having used it, for more than 1 hour, im not just another opinion, because iv seen it and used it.]]>Nov 20th 2008 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
"But the true test of any touch-based phone is typing, and we won't hold any punches here: we're in love. In fact, we like it enough to pit it against regular button-based keyboards,"

So what happened? How can you love it and then say it is terrible?"

Like seriously...I'd love for someone at engadget to address that...I genuinely want to know the reasoning behind that. Unless it's already been addressed, i'm not looking thru 7 individual pages. ]]>Nov 22nd 2008 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
My wife has the iphone and I have the Storm so it is a perfect match but so far I get calls and can make calls when she doesn't have reception. Did you ever happen to look at the coverage maps???

Lastly, the reason the iphone must have wi-fi is because their 3G network stinks. Call the Apple store and ask them. They will tell you to have the 3G turned off unless you want your battery life to die. The iphone MUST use wi-fi becuase it has to. Verizon's network is solid AND the 3G network actually works! Amazing! Isn't that the reason you bought these phones as well? For a quicker network?

Synopsis, I now have a phone that works any where in the world on the fastest network in the world with the best email and business suite in the world and with a much longer battery life! All the other extra tools just make the Storm even stronger. ]]>Nov 24th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 27th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Dec 8th 2008 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
Umm. I'm guessing you may have meant 3G? EDGE is far slower than EV-DO Rev. A... it's actually the main reason why I'm dumping T-Mobile and moving to Verizon!]]>Dec 16th 2008 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Dec 16th 2008 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Feb 8th 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://Storm-Blackberry.com]]>Feb 2nd 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 19th 2008 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 20th 2008 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
On the other hand, feedback seems to be something that the elderly and disabled often require in their technology to tell them if they preformed an action or not. My grandma (god bless her) hates using her glasses, so she needs the feedback to know if she did something.

On the whole, I think that both methods have their own ups and downs, and they should make it an optional feature (if not in the settings, than upon purchase) for all touchscreen devices in the future. ]]>Nov 20th 2008 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 20th 2008 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 20th 2008 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
This "click screen" also offers some other advantages....if you're in your message list, simply hovering on someones email address will do a search for all messages from that person...or, if you hover on the subject, it searches for all messages in that thread...very handy feature.

Navigating in the calendar (I'm a fairly heavy calendar user) is better...it allows you to swipe left or right to move a day/week/month forward and back...iPhone requires you to tap arrows.

The other thing that I liked was that when you plug it in (like the Bold) it goes into a Clock mode...couple that with the sync pod and you have a bedside alarm clock that you can take with you. Yes the iPhone does alarm also, but the display is blank for the most part (or shows the battery charging) which doesn't make it the best for a bedside clock.

But back to the click...It's great for navigating the device, and OK for typing...not perfect, but still acceptable to me. I don't think anyone who has an iPhone could type as fast as they do now when they first got it, it also had a learning curve.

For those who are unsure about the click, well, really for anyone, I'd say that you have to remember that this is just the reviewers opinion on typing. My experience has been different, and yours may be as well. There are limitations to the device, but there are limitations with a lot of devices, the key point is to take what people have said are good/bad, and try those things for yourself. Do you agree that the typing sucks? Then it's not the device for you. Do you actually like typing on it? Then buy it. When I can get this device, I'll pick one up and switch between my iPhone and the Storm because they do things differently.

Zro]]>Nov 20th 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
great insight! its nice to hear another perspective on it. it sounds to me like main point you're trying to convey is that you need to try it for yourself. ill have to get myself down to a verizon store and try it out!]]>Nov 20th 2008 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
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Competition is good. It means better products for lower prices.]]>Nov 20th 2008 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 21st 2008 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Dec 11th 2008 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 19th 2008 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
How's that for an objective standpoint to begin the review from.]]>Nov 20th 2008 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 20th 2008 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/Nov 20th 2008 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
I type very quickly, and most times i get frustrated with the iPhone's keyboard for not recognizing my quick consecutive taps and inputing it as one. But just like the reviewer, I am sure I would go crazy if I were to wait for the screen to pop back up to type the next letter. Perhaps if you time it, on paper it may seem like not a big deal, but if you're tapping away on those keys, getting in 2-3 letters per second, even half a second completely destroys your rhythm.

Also, yes, the iPhone was a huge hit, and BECAUSE it was so huge it does have a place in this review. It is not like the iPhone is in the entire review, popping in constantly. The review is obviously on the Storm, giving lots of info on the device. Obviously the Storm's BIGGEST contender is the iPhone 3G, and when these companies create their phones they're trying to outdo the other companies, and when people are purchasing the phones, they are comparing multiple phones to choose the best one. So it definitely belongs at a certain point in this review, as that's what people want to know.

I can definitely say at least for myself, when I purchase something, I don't just want to know what the product is like, but I want to know what it is AND what's better about it than the other products it's competing with. I would like a reason why I should purchase THIS product rather than it's competition. If someone is reviewing the product, and the product has a close competitor as the Storm has with the iPhone, yes, I would very much appreciate the reviewer to compare the two.

Whenever the iPhone is mentioned in reviews, there are always comments like yours. But really, what would we do with reviews that only told you about the product itself? Well, for one, we wouldn't have a starting point; something to compare it against, so that we have a better idea of what the phone is like. If the iPhone does these things well, I would like this new device, that I may potentially have, to do better. Most people know what the iPhone is, how it works, what it does, and more importantly, one it does WELL, so it would not only make sense, but be good to compare the Storm against the iPhone (on top of the fact that... it's so obviously already meant to be compared anyways.. probably even from when RIM came up with the device). And two, if it weren't to be done in the review, we would end up taking two seperate reviews, one of the Storm and one of the iPhone, and comparing it ourselves.

Comparing is good. It makes for improvement and innovation.

*this comment is pretty long.. lol... sorry about that everyone]]>Nov 20th 2008 3:50AM