Hands-On Look At the BlackBerry Storm 2 213
Barence writes "PC Pro has had time to play with the new BlackBerry Storm 2, and came away impressed. The new touch system garners the most praise, doing away with the mechanical click screen of the original Storm — the new screen gives a kind of localised haptic feedback which 'feels just like clicking a button.' The phone, announced today, also includes Wi-Fi, BlackBerry OS 5, and increased storage, so it's looking an enticing prospect. After the disappointment of the Palm Pre, could this be the smartphone to beat?"
The Disappointment of the Palm Pre (Score:5, Funny)
... I know exactly what you're talking about! After buying my Pre, I found that:
- I didn't immediately lose weight
- I still had to wear glasses
- the damage to my hearing (after 20 years of listening to good music) wasn't repaired
- my credit limit wasn't raised, and my day-to-day living expenses weren't reduced
Sure, overall it's a great phone, as far as portable phones that store important information, take pictures, play music and access the internet go, but those four points stick in my craw. Fail!
Re:LOL (Score:5, Funny)
It will indeed take some time to beat Nokia.
Mart
Re:As a former Storm owner (Score:2, Funny)
And the OS have a propensity to leak memory so that as the day went on your usable memory level would continue to fall to the point where you had to pull the battery to reset the phone.
My Storm seems to have a feature that automatically resets the phone at random intervals. It handily solves that problem, but can be annoying when you're actually trying to do something with it.
Seriously, though, the sluggishness of the phone is a big drawback. If it could keep up with how fast I type and not randomly reset I would be very happy with it.
Re:"Developers, Developers, Developers..." (Score:1, Funny)
strangely enough, no-one I know, doesn't have goats, land, guns, and crops.
what's an ipod?