BlackBerry Storm? Meh…
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And the world sees yet another BlackBerry model. How many are there now, six? Eight months ago, Verizon Wireless was advertising the Pearl. The Pearl was “so great” and innovative. I am here to tell you that I used to be with Verizon Wireless and had the Pearl. The phone was horrible. The service was worse.
First thing to go wrong on it - the ball in the middle came off. CAME OFF! What the deuce? What kind of build quality is that? Kyocera? So after getting a replacement ball doodad, the phone began erasing my contacts, email and messages. Never again will I own a BlackBerry product.
Needless to say, before I left Verizon Wireless to switch to AT&T and the iPhone, I did try out the BlackBerry Storm to see what all the noise Verizon Wireless is making was about. And I have one phrase for this phone: epic fail.
The “iPhone Killer” BlackBerry Storm is ridiculous. The interface is horrid, the icons are some cheap see-through Palm Treo knock off, and I absolutely hate the fact that you have to puncture the screen (VZW calls it a click) to select something. Puncture it enough times, the screen will probably crack. In fact, a friend of mine has one and his did. Go figure.
The next phone I will be reviewing will be the Palm Pre. I am excited about this one. It seems like a great iPhone alternative!
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David Banther
June 7th, 2009
at 12:08pm
I have had the Pearl on the Verizon, Alltel, and T-Mobile network. With the exception of Alltel, the BlackBerry Pearl worked perfectly. T-Mobile has the new BlackBerry Flip Pearl, not my style, but looks pretty cool. I use the BlackBerry Storm and I absolutely love it. It is no “iPhone Killa” and is not meant to be one.
The BlackBerry & iPhone, in my opinion, serve two different client bases. I need instant e-mail and top notch message management - not games and random apps (not knocking apps at all). I run a business and have three different business e-mail accounts plus my personal one, I can never afford to miss an e-mail. The iPhone failed in e-mail management for me. The iPhone & Storm are great phones - for the different purposes they serve. Might want to check out how the Curve beat the iPhone in sales Q1, I don’t understand why it did, but it is a fact.
The Pre, from the videos I have seen, looks like a great phone. But Apple has had a lot of this technology out for two years - so I really don’t seen the reason to praise Palm.