New Storm User First Impression
- Hey folks,
After reading all your comments good and bad on the Storm, I took the plunge and purchased one for myself. I never intend to leave Verizon, so it didn't make much sense to try and compare it to an iPhone. What I did compare it to was the "Top Of The Line" WM phone that Verizon has right now and the phone I used for 2 months, the HTC Touch Pro. For all of you that hate your BlackBerry Storm, go ahead and buy a Touch Pro. Within one day, you will be reconnecting that Storm and returning the Touch Pro. I hear about people having to do battery pulls twice a day. Sounds great to me. Try once an hour with the Touch Pro, no lie. That thing spent more time frozen up then operating. I work overnight and sleep during the day. I would charge my phone while I was sleeping, and every morning, it would be frozen. Any messages I received during the day were gone. Bad battery life with the Storm? Think again! Here is my schedule: Up at 4pm, leave for work at 10pm, home at 7am. When I took the phone off the charger when I got up at 4pm and didn't recharge it before leaving for work, I would have to turn the phone off when I got there just to have it for the drive home. And keep in mind, that was only for normal, occasional use. If I was using it heavily to send messages, surf the web, or listen to music, 3 hours of battery life tops.
I have only had the Storm for 3 days and I am using .75, but let me tell you, Compared to the WM touchscreen phones I have had (Treo 700W, Treo 700WX, XV6800, and HTC Touch Pro), this device is by far the best I have ever had. So if you want to love the Storm, buy a Touch Pro. It's like comparing Danica Patrick to Kathy Bates.04-02-09 02:52 AMLike 0 - Hahaha, great post. Glad you like your Storm, it is an awesome phone in my opinion as well.
I went from a Curve to a Treo 700wx to a HTC 6800 back to the Treo and then to the Storm. Best yet!04-02-09 02:56 AMLike 0 - Hey HillbillyTrav
Welcome to the Blackberry Community!. Congrats on your storm. Just figure I tell you. If you coping with the .75 OS version, you should definitely check out the .113 beta version. "just a thought" you will be pleasantly surprise at the difference. literally night and day.
Enjoy your new phone
Mike04-02-09 02:58 AMLike 0 - Very true! shouldn't be just a thought, you really should just do it. It will improve your phone quite noticeably...04-02-09 03:03 AMLike 0
- Hey HillbillyTrav
Welcome to the Blackberry Community!. Congrats on your storm. Just figure I tell you. If you coping with the .75 OS version, you should definitely check out the .113 beta version. "just a thought" you will be pleasantly surprise at the difference. literally night and day.
Enjoy your new phone
Mike
Congrats on your new Storm.04-02-09 03:05 AMLike 0 - Well, these rumors have been going on and on and on for a while.
I wouldnt hold your breathe on the official release build and date at all. Just take the leap and use one of the leaked OS's instead of waiting around on .75.04-02-09 03:07 AMLike 0 - I actually have both the storm and the FUZE (AT&T's version of the touch pro) the storm is a excellent phone which I have expressed in other posts, and if you load custom roms on the touch pro (via xda developers site) the touch pro improves too. I happen to like both of these phones but like the storm better still.04-02-09 05:19 AMLike 0
- All you've gotta do now is upgrade to .113. I've been running .109 for the past few weeks and it's been great. Waited a little before updating to .113 to see what others had to report. Well I did the update 10 minutes ago and so far so good. Only incremental improvements but improvements all the same. You'll love the Storm if you invest a little time learning and tweaking it. Congrats.04-02-09 06:09 AMLike 0
- I am a new user and I have purchased the new storm and I have been reading and am wondering about this 113 everybody is talking about. Where can I find it and is it safe?
Thanks in advance.
Jason Powers04-02-09 07:46 AMLike 0
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