This quote is from someone who is completely unbiased, used an iPhone before, and only has 23 posts.
1) Touch Screen
I had the iPhone for about three days. I hated that phone! The typing was just awful, and it would often times over-compensate for where I wanted to navigate web pages. I demoed the S1 when I worked for a wireless store, and I couldn't get used to the touch screen on that either. The S2 finally delivers a touch screen device that I can actually _use_. I have very few problems typing using the landscape keyboard. Me personally, I use the BB Pearl keyboard in portrait. While I hated that phone, I really enjoyed the keyboard. Two thumbs up for the new touch screen.
Now the quote below this comes from someone who has 675 posts and was posted 9-29-09.
haptic feedback on a touchscreen is not that big a driver
Lets see how many people decide to go with Storm 2 when they are choosing a touchscreen phone. What is a touchsceen phone?
A screen that you can touch. How is haptic feedback not important? I bet you anything that screen is what RIM is counting on to hold them over in the market until they release a new UI.
Haptic feedback (or the general interpretation of "feedback") that the S1 brought to the table wasn't a factor last year... the S2's system won't be either.
Yet, thats what most of the posts in the stom2 section are about.
A screen that you can touch. How is haptic feedback not important? I bet you anything that screen is what RIM is counting on to hold them over in the market until they release a new UI.
I completely agree. Next year, they are going to have to release a completely re-vamped OS to keep up with the other touch screen phones. I personally like the OS layout on the S2.
Haptic feedback seems more of like an additional thing than a main focal point in RIM's plan. Maybe I'm just behind in the Touchscreen market, but phones don't require it, do they?
Haptic feedback seems more of like an additional thing than a main focal point in RIM's plan. Maybe I'm just behind in the Touchscreen market, but phones don't require it, do they?
But the S2 feedback is SO much more precise than the S1. The S1 (mine anyway) was mushy compared to this new S2 & I like to know when I've pressed a button unlike the iPhone or my iPod touch.
My .02
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Haptic feedback seems more of like an additional thing than a main focal point in RIM's plan. Maybe I'm just behind in the Touchscreen market, but phones don't require it, do they?
How is it more of an addition? I personally can't stand touch screen phones do to the lack of haptic feedback. I prefer knowing when ice pressed something rather than accidentally sliding my finger over something and making a phone call or opening something I didn't mean to.
The s1 felt mushy this phone does touchscreen right
At least that's my opinion
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Well let's look at Rimm they have tried to innovate what a touchscreen is perceived as and made it a "press screen" they are actually trying to innovate on the Hardware instead of what Iphone did and innovate on UI.... I commend RIMM on making such a Ballsy move in the first place and I think it works well... UI's can change hardware can't without a new device.
