| Try-phone from RIM a Storm in a teacup |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 08 December 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 The first thing you notice with the Storm is its similar
size and form factor to the iPhone, although it's slightly shorter and
wider. It doesn't have that simple one button return to the main menu
but that's no real problem; it's easy enough to navigate to the main
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Compared to the iPhone screen which is a joy to tap, slide your finger across, pinch or spread, the Storm screen feels clunky, chunky and crude. Whether you happen to be typing an email (we'll get to the keypad shortly) or selecting an application from the menu, you really have to push unacceptably hard on the screen to register your selection. Scrolling using the finger flick is also quite jerky and only allows you to scroll a set amount with each flick, lacking the smooth gliding intuitive responsiveness of the iPhone which simulates a frictionless physical scrolling device. Not having the screen continue to slowly scroll on once you remove your finger turns out to be quite annoying on the BlackBerry, for it makes scrolling take much longer than it should. However, using the onscreen QWERTY keyboard for doing what the Blackberry is famous for - composing emails - is where the Storm really fails miserably. The Storm keyboard is - to put it bluntly - unusable. Like the iPhone, the Blackberry Storm has an accelerometer. This means that you can swich between portrait or landscape implementations of the keyboard by physically rotating the handset. CONTINUED Page 3 |
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