http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/ Engadget Comments for RIM (employee): Storm 2 with "new approach to text entry" for end 2009, early 2010 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/
I agree that keypads are far better than touchscreens to type on. However I find my storms touchscreen far easier to type on than any other touchscreen device I have used (including the iphone). If you want a keypad then there is the bold, if you want a bigger better screen area and the benefits that it brings then the storm is excellent. I am not a hardcore emailer so the larger screen on the storm is better for what I use it for.]]>Apr 8th 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/I'm waiting for the Pre, unless Blackberry beats it with something similar.]]>May 4th 2009 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/
I have on and 3 other coworkers own Storms and we all love ours, yes there are quirks but what Gen1 phone doesn't?]]>Apr 8th 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/are you an eight-year old boy?
grow up and stop saying LOL at the end of each sentence, we arent laughing.]]>May 4th 2009 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/May 14th 2009 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/now if only they can get it out of verizons hands before they fock it all up.....

]]>Apr 9th 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/
Really?? Come on.

For what its worth, I and tens of thousands of other Storm owners love the screen. I can type faster and more accurately on my Storm than on my iPod touch.]]>Apr 8th 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/
Love mine too, the keyboard is great and I type much faster on it than on my old iPod touch. I agree that the OS could use some work..its slow sometimes and app world is no where near as advanced as the app store-thats just going to take time though. ]]>Apr 8th 2009 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/
And, for all you people who are going to bitch about me putting down BlackBerry and promoting Apple and their iPhone, as I said before, I love BBs, but the Storm just isn't for me. I have an iPod Touch, love it, and based on that, will be getting an iPhone.]]>May 16th 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/
Daily Reboots
Sluggish response
Jumps to adjacent key while pressing the key you want
Press on link and screen zooms in instead of going to link
Unsure Type
Turn phone from vertical to horizontal but page doesn't turn till it feels like it
Camera that doesn't work unless you reboot
Sucky Browser
Inaccurate clock
Can't control music volume unless you go to music screen
Expensive, useless Apps that you need a PayPal account to even use
Heavy and fat form factor
Complete lack of sophistication



]]>Apr 8th 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 9th 2009 1:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/May 4th 2009 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 8th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/I can live with gen1 problems and have in the past with RIM devices, but they really tried too hard to please the market here and in the end may have made peoples minds up about weather to go back to windows mobile or dare I say Apple. The firmware/OS updates are few and far between and now with the news of a new one in the pipes, people who jumped on board early are really beggining to understand that this was just a money grab before Christmas season.

Please RIM make it lighter, add wifi and don't let verizon add so much crap that it becomes a waste of time.

RIM is supposed to be business so why on earth are they concentrating on an app store and terrible MM playback?

Uggh]]>Apr 8th 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/Apr 9th 2009 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/rim-employee-storm-2-with-new-approach-to-text-entry-for-en/
here is another article on it.....
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/04/08/research-in-motion-slide-out-keyboard-for-storm-2/?mod=yahoobarrons]]>Apr 9th 2009 9:44AM