[TheMerovingian]

could not agree with you more...i guess we all spoiled now with so many things you can do on a phone...you want more and more...I remember when just TRYING to make a call AND TALK for more that 30 seconds on the old analog phones was like and now even though you can surf the net,send emails,watch video,listen to music,take pictures,make videos etc etc what else can you ask for will maybe walk the dog,do the laundry,food shopping...when the IPHONE starts doing those things then and maybe then i'll complain...

on my 3rd storm by the way but still happy

That's a good point. We do expect a lot from phones. Many people on this forum expect entirely too much

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[RedBerry8830]

Camera great????
That's the biggest joke I've ever heard....mine is a piece of ****
I press the picture button and it takes like 5 seconds to take the picture
Junk is all it is

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Sorry dude, my camera works great.

[emskaufman]

That's a good point. We do expect a lot from phones. Many people on this forum expect entirely too much

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If everything came out perfect the first time we would have nothing to discuss on CB.com.......Best phone I've had yet........

[Califormark]

agree 100% with original poster. I came from a long line of Palm devices and phones. My last was the Treo 700P. I had never used a Blackberry before so it was a huge learning curve.

Occasionally I have to work on my boss' Treo. I hold it in my hand and think "how could I ever have thought this brick was great".

[pcsolutions1]

Camera great????
That's the biggest joke I've ever heard....mine is a piece of ****
I press the picture button and it takes like 5 seconds to take the picture
Junk is all it is

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This reinforces my point. To me a decent digital camera costs about $200. I have a couple of them and when I want to take a lot of pictures I use them. This thing costs $200, browses the internet, is a phone, calendar, a reasonable camera with flash, has gps, speakerphone, bluetooth,..........how much do you really think they can fit in this thing and sell it to you for $200. With the later updates I think the camera works great.

iphone = camera with no flash and no video
storm = better camera with flash and video

I don't see the comparison. I use it to take pictures when I don't have another camera convenient and I'm just thrilled to have it and that it works good. My prior blackberries = no camera and not a lot of other frills either. Heck the cameras in most phones are so low resolution that they aren't even very useful at all except for people to view on another crappy phone screen. And this one will mms, e-mail, or upload them directly to the net on the social type sites.

Just my .02

[lazysnowdog]

i've had my storm for a month now...my first bb. i've honestly got to say that i love it. However, i'm not so sure i'd love it this much, this soon, if it wasnt for this forum (and the beta releases help, too.).

cheers everyone.
--J

[nyconsult410]

Totally agree. Great phone and all it will do is get better. I think a lot of the problems people are posting about is that the majority of them don't know what the f*** they are doing with it. Just a thought!

I have been a computer consultant for almost three decades now, and have dealt with all versions of Microsoft Windows, Linux, and every other buggy software that Microsoft has ever put out, and this phone tops them all! The thought that anyone would claim that this phone is great must not be using their phone, because .75 is a nightmare, with it's bugs and random resets! It is slow, it constantly freezes when it wants to, and should have never been released to the market, with this many bugs! This phone is crap! PERIOD! Just look at the list of fixes they have in .113, and then tell me what a great phone it is and that others don't know what they are doing...

I am just lucky I have never needed to call the police, fire, or ambulance when it has decided to have one of it's random reset attacks, because waiting almost five minutes for a reboot could be the difference between life and death! I am just praying that Verizon will release an update that actually resolves these issues soon, because I shouldn't have to worry about installing hybrids and leaked OS to get it to work properly!

Now don't get me wrong, because it is a great leap in technology for RIM, but they really should have put more work into it before releasing it to the market, so don't blame the individual, for poor programming, because this phone is flawed! Just look at the list of fixes from .75 to .113, and then tell me people don't have a right to complain!

Fixed bug where Mute and End buttons would work incorrectly while using an A2DP headset on a call.
Fixed bug that caused display to briefly show small, multi-colored dots across the entire screen.
Fixed bug that could cause a white bar to display on the screen.
Fixed bug that could cause custom ringtones to play even when phone is set to vibrate.
Fixed bug where pictures taken in landscape mode and sent could show in portrait.
Fixed rare bug causing notifications not to show for incoming text messages.
Fixed bug causing call timer to intermittently show incorrectly.
Fixed bug causing an error and possibly display issues when more than 40 items are present in the call log.
Fixed rare bug where multitap keypad could behave like SureType keypad.
Fixed bug where if a music artist is deleted from the phone, the artist's tracks could still show.
Fixed bug preventing renaming of file extensions on music playlists.
Fixed bug causing choppy audio playback on downloaded WMA files.
Fixed rare bug where phone could reset while recording a video for MMS attachment.
Fixed bug that could cause the device to stop responding and display an error when pausing a video recording.
Fixed bug that prevented the backlight from timing out while playing streamed video content.
Fixed bug with display of track names containing periods.
Reduced amount of time it takes to begin playing MP3 files.
Fixed bug that could cause viewfinder to not display correctly when camera is started in portrait mode and quickly flipped to landscape.
Fixed bug that occasionally caused screen to briefly show white after taking a picture.
Fixed rare bug that caused phone to reset when taking a picture with image stabilization and white board effect enabled.
Fixed rare bug where camera application would remain open after user had closed it.
Fixed rare bug where camera application would start without being commanded to do so.
Fixed bug that could cause phone to go to EV-DO after an automatic reset when it is in 1X-only mode.
Improved capability in auto off/on functionality for connecting to wireless networks when turning back on.
Enhanced system to ensure OTA updates continue if media card is removed.
Added Arabic language support.
Added full support for English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish in the East Asia language pack.
Added rendering support for Indonesian Bahasa, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Added "Go" buttons next to address and search fields in the browser and search application respectively.
Added Phone icon to home screen.
Removed Call Log icon in Applications folder.
Device can now be upgraded OTA using either internal memory or a media card.
Improved volume consistency across applications and calls.
Fixed rare bug to prevent uncommanded scrolling of text.
Improved speed when composing messages.
Improved speed in Calendar application when selecting "go to date".
Fixed bugs to ensure Application Permission screen is always correctly displayed.
Fixed various bugs causing device resets.
Fixed rare bug causing device to freeze while using Voice Dial.
Improved accuracy of signal strength meter.
Fixed rare bug where phone could lose data connectivity.
Fixed bug to ensure new languages can always be added.
Fixed bug to ensure phone always vibrates and beeps for incoming text messages when it is set to do so.
Fixed bug that could cause device to not allow text messages to be sent to numbers in the Frequently Dialed Number list.
Fixes to make sure emails are always displayed correctly.
Fixed bugs that could cause static on phone calls.
Fixed bug that could prevent audio from routing through a Bluetooth headset when using speed dial.
Enhancements to ensure that phone features are not accidentally accessed when phone is held up to ear.
Fixed bug to ensure holding down the 1 button always triggers voicemail.
Fixed bug that could prevent .odf files stored on media cards from playing correctly.
Fixed bug that could inform the user they don't have rights to play music when the message is not necessary.
Fixed bug causing popping noises in downloaded songs.
Improved display of files saved on media cards in all applications.
Fixed bugs preventing creation and opening of playlists in some circumstances.
Fixed bug that could prevent access to the Music Library from the Options menu in the media player.
Improved support for streaming video content whose URLs are longer than 512 characters.
Fixed bug preventing correct display of streaming video content sent in a text message.
Improved accuracy of progress bars displayed when downloading files.
Fixed bugs preventing preview of songs when using V CAST Rhapsody.
Fixed bugs preventing playback of video recorded on the phone.
Improvements to prevent intermittent error messages displayed in the media player.
Sped up display of pictures.
Fixed bug that could cause pictures to display at the wrong resolution.
Fixed rare bug causing device to lock while typing.
Fixed bugs involving incorrect display of keyboard.
Made sure device remains in portrait mode while being unlocked in portrait mode.
Full QWERTY keyboard now available in portrait mode.
Improved performance and stability with pre-loaded games.
Fixed bug causing Incoming Call screen to not show when user is in some applications.
Fixed bug that could prevent LED indicator from turning on when device is charged.
Fixed bug causing Enterprise Activation screen to show after activation is complete.
Improved display rotation speed while viewing contacts.
Improved data call setup when switching wireless technologies.

And that is no small list of issues!

[vevans2]

I agree with you also. Once the software releases become more stable this is the best touchscreen. I finally installed a stable os which was a hybrid and it works extremly well. The phone does pretty much everything.

[bkeaver]

This dude needs a hug and a new phone.. whew ... I have been a systems and network engineer for almost as long as you you and have seen the same things but however ... I am using my phone to its potential and personally I havent seen a PDA yet that is 100% perfect and such but I for one do not have any of the issues you seem to have sorry to say (or actually good to say )....

I have been a computer consultant for almost three decades now, and have dealt with all versions of Microsoft Windows, Linux, and every other buggy software that Microsoft has ever put out, and this phone tops them all! The thought that anyone would claim that this phone is great must not be using their phone, because .75 is a nightmare, with it's bugs and random resets! It is slow, it constantly freezes when it wants to, and should have never been released to the market, with this many bugs! This phone is crap! PERIOD! Just look at the list of fixes they have in .113, and then tell me what a great phone it is and that others don't know what they are doing...

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[pcsolutions1]

Me too. IT backbround for 15 years. I'm not saying the phone doesn't have faults. I'm just saying that my job has gotten easier since I got it compared to any device I've ever owned and I like it. I get a whole lot more bent out of shape that Microsoft still has to have patches for a 7 year old OS like XP to prevent a new virus from infecting the PC. 7 years seems like long enough to have closed up the holes. Especially when you look at the revenue stream generated by something like Windows. They send out a CD and a box and gets good money from all the millions of installed base and still takes forever to fix things in their software. RIM has a substantial sum tied up in the hardware that we are getting for a great price and they are working to fix the software.

I know there were things I didn't think my 8830 or 7250 did well and I would have loved to have seen updates coming out every couple of months making them better. Heck I wanted the column type browser from the curve forever for my 8830 and it still wasn't there when I got my storm. I've just seen more effort to fix things with this one than I seem to remember with the older ones and am trying to give credit where credit is due.

I also want to say that I'm really impressed that this thread has stayed on such a positive note and that there are so many others like me that like the phone. I just like the positive vibe that the forum had before the storm was ever in the picture. It seemed more like a group that tried to make a limited capability device do things it wasn't intended to do and be excited about it rather than demand the world from it and be upset that it didn't was our car too. Thanks for all the supporting posts to my praise of the storm.

[MYQX56RULES]

This dude needs a hug and a new phone.. whew ... I have been a systems and network engineer for almost as long as you you and have seen the same things but however ... I am using my phone to its potential and personally I havent seen a PDA yet that is 100% perfect and such but I for one do not have any of the issues you seem to have sorry to say (or actually good to say )....

HAHAHAHAH could not agree more

but we also have to be considerate he is a "minority" like somebody else said for every one that complains about it ten more fall in love...