I actually prefer the click screen compared to the storm 2 iphone like screen. i wish they would have stayed with it. anyone else like the click over the normal touch.
I thought the storm two also had the click just a little modified. But anyways, I love the click also. Its why I like the phone. I can't type on any other touch screen cause I always end up pushing buttons o don't mean too.
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However, if I were RIM, I'd ask myself three questions:
1) Is there a marked improvement in one's ability to interface with the phone when you separate selection from confirmation? (FYI touch=select and click=confirm - all other touch screens select/confirm is the same action).
2) Assuming the answer to #1 is yes, is that advantage worth the tremendous and widespread risk of a hardware failure due to how the device is designed?
3) Assuming the answer to #1 is no, why on god's green earth are we still manufacturing this device when the design itself is inherently prone to mechanical failure when there's no concrete advantage to doing so?
So, while I don't mind the click, I'm absolutely befuddled that RIM is sticking with it. In their quest to not alienate their core customer base, they've done such a thorough job of doing just that (and alienating themselves from Verizon in the process), one must wonder if every day is opposite day in Waterloo. And as an encore, they decide to do it again with the S2. A decision of colossally poor judgment.
The Storm is primarily positioned as a consumer device. Lose the click forchrissake. Business users will adapt or buy a Tour or Bold.
I actually prefer the click screen compared to the storm 2 iphone like screen. i wish they would have stayed with it. anyone else like the click over the normal touch.
Superballs has obviously never actually messed with a Storm2....or played with one that was not actually on.
The Storm2's screen is superior to the S1's hands down...and yes both still click.
If you're an S1 user it takes some getting used to...I was a fast typer on my S1...but on the S2 I'm a fiend. Quick and extremely accurate. I've owned BB's in the past and my typing speed on the Storm2 is by far the quickest.
Regrettably, whenever the phone vibrates, I want to pick it up and throw it out a window...this phone has the worst damn vibrate function on the planet...no point in using it since the noise it makes is loud enough to negate the purpose of vibrate.
I am on a Storm 1 and am OK with the click. I tried a Storm 2 and I actually don't care for it. It has a click, just feels mushy to me. I have always depended on my 4 REAL buttons as dependable, the Storm 2 didn't respond 100% of the time on the send/end buttons now that they are integrated into the screen.
I have had a similar experience to sgdossey, and I can see mikestorm's points.
However, I only played with units in the store, and I've heard that out of the box the S2 is much better than on the display stand with all of that junk attached to it.
Second, I agree that confirmation and selection should remain separate because it truly helps with everything that we do on our Storms. However, with texting it appears to be an exhausting hindrance. I would have liked the ability to disable the click SIMPLY for the keyboard function, but to use the click for all other functions.
I wonder if developers can create a keyboard app to allow this for the S2? I figure if we can remove the click for our web-browsing (opera-mini & bolt browsers), there should be some conceivable way to do the same for the keyboard function.
I actually prefer the click screen compared to the storm 2 iphone like screen. i wish they would have stayed with it. anyone else like the click over the normal touch.
Have you actually tried a S2? Im pretty sure it still has a click screen.
I hate it. Requires too much effort and the click is different the farther from the middle you get. For me the argument that its better to point and then select it simply a justification for an inconvienance that we have to deal with. I don't see why RIM doesn't make it optional. I think far more people would like this phone if the click wasn't required.
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