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Originally Posted by alejandro1
I've had my Storm for about 5 weeks now, and would like to share my likes, dislikes and suggestions for RIMM when developing my "dream" unit.
Pros:
-fantastic screen size and resolution.
-perfect size and weight for entire unit.
Cons:
-the onscreen keyboard. A great idea that renders the unit more of a novelity than a productive function. It will never be as usable as a hard keyboard. The worst part of not having a hard keyboard is the absense of directional cursor keys, or trackball. Trying to relocate the cursor using the onscreen keyboard is almost useless. In my opinion the onscreen keyboard outweighs all the other great advantages of the Storm. I have all but given up using the Storm to input information and have resorted to carrying a small notebook and pen.
-the unit is slow. When clicking on Unlock, I have to wait about 3 seconds before the keyboard appears allowing me to enter my password. This is in additon to the very noticable lag when using the camera, and other features such as viewing my existing photos. The iPhone is much, much faster when scrolling through photos and other functions.
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My dream unit would be the Storm but with a slide out keyboard which includes directional cursor keys. Although I imagine they could develope such a unit by adding ony about 30% more thickness to the unit, I would gladly accept a unit that was up to 50-100% thicker. That is how much I hate the onscreen keyboard and the lack of directional cursor keys. Also, I'd be willing to pay more for a much faster processor.
Hopefully, many others share my thoughts and together we can encourage RIMM to develope such a device.
Thanks for listening.
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I couldn't agree more with the above. I tried the Storm for about 1/2 a day. The onscreen KB drove me NUTS!
The "click" sounds cool til you try it. I ended up putting it on the shelf and went back to using my Bold.
The only time the storm comes off the shelf is when one of my users walks in with a storm question.
I have a Dev G1 and I love the form factor and all of the inputs on the darn thing. It's just too bad that the email support stinks for anything other than Gmail. I would have seriously considered dumping the BlackBerry for the G1 had corporate email been supported.
I've also tried the HTC Touch Pro (Fuze) I like it alot too, but M$ OS is so much slower than the BlackBerry OS. It's sad, but I have never found a mobile phone based on a M$ OS actually usable.
Please develop a slider KB RIM!!!