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1. A little underwhelmed. It was a great device but.....
2. Random restarts.
3. 8-10 min restart times
4. Random "I can't hear you, but you hear me" issues.
5. Just a slower device.. Especially moving between apps.
6. Pictures! Quality was poor compared to 8130 camera.
7. Camera! Mobile cameras are for impromptu candid shots, not "hold on 3 more seconds while my camera loads and auto focuses..." lol.
8. Accesories? Not as much to choose from as I would have expected... (Crackberry had plenty though! Go team crack!)
9. Copy and paste much? Whoah! This was frustratingly inaccurate.
10. No Vlingo support.
11. No Shozu support.
All things considered, if the phone were free, some of these could be overlooked. But to pay for a phone that doesn't "out perform" your current one... Meh.(like simpsons).
The multimedia functions are very nice... The videos look fabulous on this device. Maps with GPS, also very nice. I almost bought a dock and mounted it in my car.... Would make for a great GPS/phone/media player/ etc. But I was afraid I would watch movies while driving!
Ok Storm.... Not for me today, but I'll catch you in a few months, when the bugs are fixed, and my NE2 kicks in.... Making it free!
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-10-08 09:41 AM - Lol! Yeah typing on the storm is tough, but it took me no time on my pearl....(I switched back yesterday)
I left that off on purpose... Its not RIM's fault I have big grubby paws... Lol!
Again! I loved the device, just underwhelmed as compared to my speedy pearl!
Less manly named phone, but performance counts!
Ill be back to you soon my STorm!
P~
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-10-08 10:00 AM - Good call...
I forgot about that. I'm on wap now...(could never reply this fast on the storm! lol!)
I'll get that changed soon!
P~
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.comLooks like you need to change your Device Model ..
Anyways what a let down. Reading all these negative threads about the Storm.
I hope that the 8900 has less drama when its released.12-10-08 10:04 AM - I gotta say this is about a 'sellout' of a post. What I got out of this is:1. A little underwhelmed. It was a great device but.....
2. Random restarts.
3. 8-10 min restart times
4. Random "I can't hear you, but you hear me" issues.
5. Just a slower device.. Especially moving between apps.
6. Pictures! Quality was poor compared to 8130 camera.
7. Camera! Mobile cameras are for impromptu candid shots, not "hold on 3 more seconds while my camera loads and auto focuses..." lol.
8. Accesories? Not as much to choose from as I would have expected... (Crackberry had plenty though! Go team crack!)
9. Copy and paste much? Whoah! This was frustratingly inaccurate.
10. No Vlingo support.
11. No Shozu support.
All things considered, if the phone were free, some of these could be overlooked. But to pay for a phone that doesn't "out perform" your current one... Meh.(like simpsons).
The multimedia functions are very nice... The videos look fabulous on this device. Maps with GPS, also very nice. I almost bought a dock and mounted it in my car.... Would make for a great GPS/phone/media player/ etc. But I was afraid I would watch movies while driving!
Ok Storm.... Not for me today, but I'll catch you in a few months, when the bugs are fixed, and my NE2 kicks in.... Making it free!
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com
#1 - I got the latest and greatest but expected it to be perfect. Name me one "Hot" product that ever comes out perfect. Yeah MAC dorks that includes your sh-tty OS too. "More total bugs then Vista it's first year".
#2 - You wanted to be cool and get the latest toy so bad that you couldn't wait 2 months and have it free? I know $200 isn't a mortgage payment be I damn sure would wait the 2 months. You = Knuckle head
#3 The slower device has already been dramatically improved with the latest verision update including the portrait to landscape transition.
#4 You're surprised about the lack of accessories? That DAMN thing just came out a few weeks ago!
#5 It just sounds to me like you wanted to tell us how cool you were to have the latest and great but it wasn't "up to snuff" for your requirements so you sent it back only to agree to try again once it meets your demands.
I'm out12-10-08 11:07 AM - 1. ??? what more were you expecting1. A little underwhelmed. It was a great device but.....
2. Random restarts.
3. 8-10 min restart times
4. Random "I can't hear you, but you hear me" issues.
5. Just a slower device.. Especially moving between apps.
6. Pictures! Quality was poor compared to 8130 camera.
7. Camera! Mobile cameras are for impromptu candid shots, not "hold on 3 more seconds while my camera loads and auto focuses..." lol.
8. Accesories? Not as much to choose from as I would have expected... (Crackberry had plenty though! Go team crack!)
9. Copy and paste much? Whoah! This was frustratingly inaccurate.
10. No Vlingo support.
11. No Shozu support.
2. I havn't had this problem at all. Bad phone??
3. How much media did you have on your SM card? that directly relates to restart times
4. I've not experianced this. Bad phone perhaps? Did thei problem occur dung Normal use? bluetooth? Speaker phone?
5. How many Aps do you keep open? I agree this is a problem with multiple Apps open and I hope bugging VZ and RIM will have them reallocate some of the onboard memory for apps.
6. I havn't printed any of my Pics yet so I can't comment on this.
7. Agreed the cameraa sucks. I expect this to be fixed with updates.
8. As others have said the phone was just launched. Give the 3rd party devs time to judge the market & come up with things.
9. I chalk this up to learning curve. I'm still not great but Better than i was. To me the key seems to be what you are cutting & pasting from where. Some fields on webpages are excrucuating difficult to cut and paste within.
10. & 11. these are 3rd party dev Apps. you can't blame the phoen for theirr snail pace at developing for the storm.
Bottom line is the Storm (right now) isn't for you, others milage varies12-10-08 12:00 PM - Lol! Name calling are we?
So I'm a knuckle head cause the phone didn't perform the way I expected?
Oh and i'm a sell-out cause I went back to my pearl! Lol. Cmon.
Loved the phone.... Its just not "better" overall than my current BB.
I'm a BB fan by far...not trying to convince anyone to get anything they don't want.... Just have realistic expectations for the device. Perhaps I did not....?
But you were right about one thing.... I did want the coolest new toy.
I got it and now will turn it back over to some one who will like it....
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-10-08 12:20 PM - Just be lucky u had a chance to get one, I have to save up my pennies to get one at full retail or wait till 2010 to upgrade. I went to my local Verizon store and cant wait to get one, nice thing about it is by the time I have 500 clams they will have the majority of kinks worked out........hopefully12-10-08 01:16 PM
- I come from a Perl (8130) too. I purchased my storm on day one and have used it heavily since. I installed the leaked .75 and now the Bell .76. I "fixed" the keyboard (bad design from RIM) by loosening the screws. Works great now.
1. A little underwhelmed. It was a great device but.....
...Agreed. There were high (too high) expectations for this device
2. Random restarts.
...never had one. I'm always downloading and deleting apps and multitasking (within limits).
3. 8-10 min restart times
...This one always confuses me. I just now took my battery out and waited one minute and inserted it and started the stopwatch. 2 minutes and 43 seconds (when the verifying security goes away) and I can use it. I have never had any abnormally long waits.
4. Random "I can't hear you, but you hear me" issues.
...Again, never happened to me and I use the phone a lot for business.
5. Just a slower device.. Especially moving between apps.
...agreed. Slower than the Perl.
6. Pictures! Quality was poor compared to 8130 camera.
...I have to disagree. While my Perl would take an 'ok' shot once in awhile, the storm is consistent with it's quality. That said, it can't compete with a real digital camera... that's a tiny lens and CCD in there!
7. Camera! Mobile cameras are for impromptu candid shots, not "hold on 3 more seconds while my camera loads and auto focuses..." lol.
...agreed
8. Accessories? Not as much to choose from as I would have expected... (Crackberry had plenty though! Go team crack!)
...just wait
9. Copy and paste much? Whoah! This was frustratingly inaccurate.
...a track ball would be nicer at least with my fat fingers!
10. No Vlingo support.
11. No Shozu support.
I can understand the frustration you are having with your storm but I really think that you have a defective unit based on points 2,3,4 and possibly 6. I can also type better then on my Perl as I use the landscape (full qwerty) mode. It did take awhile to get used to it, but it also took awhile (and maybe longer) on my Perl.
Hopefully when your NE2 comes up, most of the bigger issues will be resolved. The Perl is a nice phone but really can't compare (at least with me) to the Storm. Let's hope RIM's Storm replacement will address a lot of the physical issues that people are experiencing.12-10-08 03:16 PM - Are you kidding me?? I have Verizon, I upgraded like 4 months ago... but I had to get this and after a littel hagling I got 2 year pricing on it. After the rebate it came out to $200.00. Call Customer Service and your thing.. ask to speak to a boss and tell the you REALLY like the iPhone but don't really want to change carriers but.. you know, if you have to...... etc etc.. worked for me.Just be lucky u had a chance to get one, I have to save up my pennies to get one at full retail or wait till 2010 to upgrade. I went to my local Verizon store and cant wait to get one, nice thing about it is by the time I have 500 clams they will have the majority of kinks worked out........hopefully
Good luck..12-10-08 08:57 PM
