I have a new Storm 2 which has many features I like. My biggest problem is my fat fingers. I am unable to hit a specific key in either portrait or landscape mode. As you would guess portrait is much more difficult. I tried to use a stylist like I did on my Palm or a pencil eraser, but neither was recognized. It only took my finger or nail.

Has anybody found a tool which works.

Have you tried using it in portrait mode and SureType enabled? There are special stylus for capacitive screens but they are expensive...

I tried using Suretype.. I REALLY did, after my friend swears by it. By day 10 I couldn't take it anymore. It was consistently getting things wrong and I was getting aggravated by having to go back and correct constantly.. especially when it changes the word after you get to end of long word. screw Suretype!

Originally posted by MushroomStamp:

I would have to agree....Tour here I come

I saw a stylist for about $3 which said it worked with the Storm. I was talking to Blackberry support about another issue, asked about a stylist. I was told the screen was heat sensitive. I have 2 answers: one in this forum it is expensive and another heat sensitive. Anybody have a real answer.

bsich,

I am a the owner of big gorilla paws with fat fingers. Physical or Qwerty is a bear but you eventually get the hang of it. I had the Curve and then the Storm. Quite frankly the Curve was harder than the Storm to master.

For most touch screen operations I use my pinky unless typing and my wife always gets a laugh when she sees me texting because the Storm totally disappears in my hands.

Give it a little time. You might find yourself getting quite adepth at handling the Storm in landscape. Forget Portrait mode, unless you have lady hands you will never get it to work.

I have lady hands and I still have a hard time with it. I have long nails so it is very hard to type on this thing. I have found that since upgrading the OS it has become much more difficult for me to type on it.

Wow, it got easier for me when I moved to 5.0.0.328. I totally agree with you about the Portrait mode. That was totally a novelty being that my wife can't even get that to work well with her tiny fingers.

With you nails you are going to have a problem with just about any phone unless you are using a stylus.

Have you considered loosing the fancy nails?