Blackberry storm

By Chaim Gartenberg.

By now most of us have heard this story in one fashion or another: when Steve Jobs and Apple were in the planning stages of the iPhone, the first carrier they brought the device to was America's largest network, Verizon. The iPhone has soared to become the ultimate smartphone, the must-have accessory that everyone from celebrities to your mom wants -- nay, need s -- to have in their pocket. It's changed the landscape of modern cellphones, put a serious dent in the sales of competing devices just recently overtaking the venerable RAZR as the best-selling domestic handset , and unquestionably raised the bar when it comes to expectations for features in new handsets. It may seem unfair to open up the review of RIM's latest BlackBerry -- the Storm -- with a history lesson on the iPhone, but if you understand the market which Verizon and RIM hope to capture, then you understand the Storm, and it helps put this critique in perspective. The Storm, a widescreen, touchscreen device boasts many of the same features as the iPhone, but adds innovations like a clickable display, and comes packed with RIM's legendary email and messaging services. Mainlined into the biggest and some say best network in the States, the Storm is an almost deafening blast to the competition at first glance, but does it hold up on closer inspection? Read on to find out.

Blackberry storm

A part of the BlackBerry series of phones, [6] it was RIM's first touchscreen device, and its first without a physical keyboard. It featured a touchscreen that responded like a button via SurePress, Research In Motion 's haptic feedback technology. There are currently no unlocked and unbranded versions available for the GSM Blackberry Storm however unlocking the phone will allow it to be used with any GSM service provider. The Storm featured a 3. The screen also incorporated technology developed by RIM known as SurePress, which allows the screen to press down like a button to provide physical feedback. By default, the Storm uses a virtual keyboard implementing the SureType predictive text system used by other Blackberry phones when held vertically, switching to a QWERTY keyboard when held horizontally. Firmware package 4. There have been reviews on reports of screen difficulties such as freezing and wrong buttons loading. The device features a built-in 3. There are currently no unlocked and unbranded versions available for the GSM Blackberry Storm; however unlocking the phone will allow it to be used with any GSM service provider. Firmware updates were released after December that addressed most of the critic's issues; updates can be downloaded online or over-the-air , and can be installed by the user. The current [ when?

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The BlackBerry Storm 2 is the first and only smartphone in the world to have a full clickable touchscreen powered by its piezoelectric sensors underneath the screen. Unlike the original Storm , the Storm 2 features Wi-Fi as well as a redesigned outer shell. The phone's codename throughout development was " Odin. When comparing the Storm 2 with the original Storm , users find the Storm 2 more user friendly. The new screen allows users to type at a faster pace—it supports multi-touch as introduced on the iPhone and available on Android -based devices.

Find out more about how we test. Rumour has it that the BlackBerry Storm concept was first spawned after Vodafone lost out to O2 in the iPhone bragging rights. But can its purpose-built credentials amount to the first bona fide touchscreen challenger to the Apple ' device? RIM has traditionally held a rather dim view on touchscreen mobiles. It's no surprise, then, that the company's first outing into the world of touchy-feely handsets holds something completely different in store — a fully 'clickable' screen. In effect, the whopping 3. Put your finger gently on one of the tiled menu icons and it will flash blue, with a pop-up letting you know what action the key controls; press down fully and you activate the function. When it comes to tapping out emails and texts, the Storm attempts to be all things to all men. Hold the handset in portrait mode and you're presented with RIM's compressed SureType keypad layout — or, if you prefer, switch to old-school Multitap input; flip to landscape and the layout automatically switches to full QWERTY courtesy of an accelerometer. The full keypad is fairly sizable, which limits the amount of message text you can see — but you can't have your QWERTY cake and eat it.

Blackberry storm

By Chaim Gartenberg. In , the iPhone ushered in an era of touchscreen gadgets that caused most buttons to vanish from our phones forever. But there was one brief moment in the gray, transitory haze between buttons and touchscreens that an unlikely company tried to fuse the two together. Thus was born the BlackBerry Storm, a device whose entire touchscreen doubled as a pressable button. The Storm was one of the first and last attempts to bridge the legacy world of physical keyboards and the modern world of touchscreens. But to understand the existence of the BlackBerry Storm and its bizarre clicking screen, we first need to go back and understand BlackBerry at the height of its power — and why it wanted to keep buttons alive. Button of the Month is a monthly column that explores the physical pieces of our phones, tablets, controllers, and beyond. To BlackBerry, buttons were the entire point of its products.

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Instead of one physical button that lies in the direct center of the screen, the Storm 2 has four piezoelectric sensors located on the four outer corners of the screen that allow for confirmation of input. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Button of the Month is a monthly column that explores the physical pieces of our phones, tablets, controllers, and beyond. So it seems fairly obvious that yes, the companies believe they have a real contender on their hands -- and in many ways they do. There have been reviews on reports of screen difficulties such as freezing and wrong buttons loading. It would be nice to see some third party options on the device for PND duties, though at least Verizon tries to throw a lot of content into the mix movie times, traffic, local search , no matter how heavy handed it feels real, real heavy handed. Research In Motion Ltd. Look, we know it's not a huge segment of the market, but it's there, and if history has taught us anything, it's a segment to be reckoned with. We were a bit stunned to find out that we couldn't sync the Storm with our Mac out of the box. Unlike similarly stacked competitors the iPhone and Instinct come to mind the Storm doesn't just boast a capacitive touch display, it also utilizes a completely unique "click" technology called SurePress which actually allows you to click the screen down like a mouse button.

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The huge screen on the Storm was slow and had to fully lower and raise before you could press another key. Download as PDF Printable version. The best Apple Watch in December 11, We noticed backlight leaking in through the sides of the screen, which partially killed the continuity of the design and had us raise eyebrows at build quality , and the screen sort of slides around when it's pressed down and held more on that later. It's not completely rainbows and unicorns, however. The BlackBerry Storm 2 is the first and only smartphone in the world to have a full clickable touchscreen powered by its piezoelectric sensors underneath the screen. All of this would be helped greatly by an intelligent software component that guessed what you meant to type -- much like the iPhone's predictive element. Management of media is still pretty standard -- we copied files back and forth between the microSD card 8GB is included with the phone , but there's no flashy Cover Flow or anything. Everything looked sharp and clear, though we've gotten a little spoiled by the Bold's incredible pixel density, and now other phones seem to pale in comparison. It was a great idea, in theory. The physical elements were louder and more fatiguing for users than a traditional QWERTY keyboard, without any of the tactile benefits of multiple hardware keys.