How would you change RIM's BlackBerry Storm2?
By Darren Murph 
posted January 22nd 2010 10:36PM
posted January 22nd 2010 10:36PM
posted January 22nd 2010 10:36PM
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Make it consumer friendly?
@OsoOto
I won't forgive them for the 'Storm Beta' they first released. I will avoid this on principle alone.
@OsoOto by "consumer friendly", do you mean refundable? =D
@chancekang
In that case, they did. I'm upgrading from a BlackBerry Storm2 to a Palm Pre Plus next week, thanks in part to the mercy of Verizon Wireless. I'm still keeping a BlackBerry on my work line, and I still have love for Research In Motion. It's just becoming tough love instead of puppy love.
@OsoOto APPARENTLY this is a bunch of Iphone ppl... afraid of competition? No... you wouldn't be afraid of that because your so confident and secure with yourselves that you don't feel the need to spam boards and other comment sections with your hate messages... that's not what an Iphone user does...
@OsoOto
I have a storm2 and love it :)
How long has been this out to change anything about it? =S
@TruUnknowN 3-4 months ago, I believe
I'd stop sellin this PoS
Don't get me started.
@SteveJobsCEO
You wouldn't last 12 hours anyway. : P
@SteveJobsCEO
Make it more expensive.
Give it an app store with 100,000+ applications..
@Broderbund
give me one with 10 useful ones...
@d889 I'm a conservative app downloader, and so far, both the Apple and Google stores have way more than 10 useful apps for me. ;)
interesting, defining UI features -- hardware is not enough.. is that too hard too ask?
just seems like a fix to what was wrong, nothing new, simply a stop gap. I have an upgrade waiting with verizon and just can't use it on this. Hopefully feb 3rd is tour 2 day.
Firmware updates - seems to be prone to freezing - only fixed by removing the battery - friend's is doing that anyway
Let SurePress die already!
@dallashigh
amen to that.
@dallashigh
Amen as well!
Kill SurePress. Regular touchscreen ftw.
Throw it in the garbage.
This is more of a low pressure center.
Ditch the antiquated OS and put it in a museum beside Windows 3.1.
It is pretty bulky. Can deal with that, but it is a brick of a phone.
It's hopeless.
@rkd KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
@whatpoint77 Fire alone isn't enough. Lets try an apartment fire with an airdrop of medical waste on top.
Blend it and spread it's ashes across the Holly Ground Steve Jobs walks on. A great sacrifice indeed.
By the way my comment is just as stupid as these HWUC post.
RIM seems completely out of their comfort zone when dealing with a touch screen, virtual keypad and RIM just don't mix. They should have scrapped the whole Storm product and gone back to the drawing board instead of releasing another crap product and putting a 2 on it. The Storm and Storm 2 just seems rushed in order to compete with touch phones especially the iPhone. Apple excels in this space, RIM excels at having an actual physical keypad. However the the biggest problem RIM has is their aging OS. Those little updates they do really does not change much. It's time RIM gets serious about getting a brand new OS into the market. Make an OS that is built around touch and don't try to shoehorn an aging OS into a touch device. Get very serious about Apps and stop releasing so many damn phones that all look the same but have very small differences. Streamline your product offering and release a new OS already.
@SteveJobsCEO
if your going to act like steve jobs so it makes me giggle at least make it funny.
@SteveJobsCEO If anyone but Steve Jobs wrote that I probably would have voted it down.
@Dustin
I'm not here to amuse you. If you want to giggle like a girl your going to have to find someone else to entertain you. I'm not acting as Steve Jobs, my account is a homage to one of the most brilliant minds of my generation.
@SteveJobsCEO
So much damn truth from Mr. Jobs here, lol. Thank goodness this isn't the real Steve Jobs, i would never say that about anything he really says, lol.
Advising a competitor to make their own new OS instead of just adopting Android... Yeah, he'd do that.
@ethana2 Yes, because Android is totally a drop-in replacement for BB OS right now. Have they got any remote administration features in yet? Remote wipe, at least?
@SteveJobsCEO Agreed, you can barely spot the differences between the current Blackberrys. Like the Tour is almost the same as the new Bold except it has a CDMA attennae instead of a GSM attennae.
@SteveJobsCEO
I think RIM's response would be something along the lines of; "kiss our marketshare."
The business people who uses these phones don't want some shitty touch device that emphasizes form over function like "your" iPhone. They want something that's fairly rugged, and that works, and works extremely well. And that's what Blackberry phones do. You simply can not beat their integration with services like Exchange (which by the way, the iPhone 3G completely lied to Exchange serves about having authentication and encryption techniques, lest we forget), and the only other OS that comes close is WinMo.
The fact their OS is aging is true, but they don't need to revamp their entire line-up into touch-based smartphones, when they have the best physical keyboard available.
@SteveJobsCEO
I'm guessing that you have WM7 as number one on your list?
@Solidstate89 Two things I like about the Storm2 are 1) With SurePress you can touch something on the screen, see that what you wanted was not selected then touch the right one and push. On the iPhone once you touch it the mistake is made. 2) By choosing the "home/today screen theme" that suits your needs you can work efficiently. On the iPhone you spend a lot of time touching icon after icon to get to what you want. I think the iPhone is made for people who want things done for them including what apps they can put on their phone. The Storm2 and all BlackBerys are made for people who want to be free to do it for themselves their way.
@Solidstate89 Great speech, the problem is we are talking about the STORM2 and this phone is a mess. First their UI looks like an ATARI game I mean, RIM it's 2010 and there is no reason why a phone can't have form and function. They are fully capable of making an attractive UI and enhancing there OS to fit. Let's try something called 2D(cause your not even at 3D level yet), the home screen is like 1D, and that just don't cut it. If I were palm I would totally go after their market and probably get it. Point is Storm1 and Storm2 suck they are a poor attempt at making a touch screen version of a blackberry, hell the pixi is a better example. Start Over RIM!!!
@1ofdakoolkidz
....(blink)
you're babbling about what now?
@SteveJobsCEO
from a CEO (I am my own CEO) to another CEO (S.J.) - what about a trade? - BlackiPhone 32g 3GS for my almoust new BlackBerry 9500 3G?
I had to troubleshoot an email issue with the Storm 2 and it was pure hell. Being an iPhone user, I realized how much I hated using a physical keyboard before I had it. It's difficult to press on icons and type effectively unless I hold it in landscape mode.
Also, I'm spoiled with Push, so I was baffled and annoyed that a device supposedly so "powerful" doesn't even fetch emails instantaneously! Tech support confirmed that it takes 15-20 minutes to receive new email! How can people accept that? lmao. The phone may seem rugged and dependable, but I'm so glad I have an iPhone. I'd rather have shiny looking icons and a simple design than deal with a BB.
Remove the send and end keys. They are completely pointless on a touch screen device. The blackberry key and back can be built into the software a little better with gestures. I have always felt as though the touch blackberrys should have a completely different UI than then non touch ones. I like the new surepress but think RIM is losing a major opportunity to flaunt some sexy software on these touchscreen phones. Considering the processor difference between this and the nontouch screen phones, I'd like to see my flashy graphics and a little more color to the interface.
Just don't bother with touchscreen phones. Stick to what you are good at RIM for the ones that need a good Messaging phone.
They just can't compete with iPhone, Android and Palm.
excuse my language but this is shit storm, thats what i call it, i took it as soon as it came out i couldnt wait to return it! what a peace of shit that phone is! i hope storm 2 is not as shitty as first
Two things
1, Replace the battery with a stick of dynamite.
2. Light It.
@Edobe: What a waste of dynamite.