Is It Me or this Storm 2??? (not having fun)
i lurk on here so don't think I'm a troll... i learn by listening..
I bought a storm 2 upgraded from a curve (all verizon).. b4 that it was an lg env with the type keyboard (best darned keyboard on a phone i ever used)...
the curve was great.. keyboard small for my fingers so everyone laughed at my typing sometimes... trackball gets dirty.. can have it out and cleaned and back in at a stop light... ( yes.. i got it down pat)..
got my storm 2.. played with it for a day b4 even transferring the lines over.
The more i use it the more frustrating and aggravating it is . it is a major PITA to even answer a quick text message... constant wrong keys input.. and the darned thing ends up replacing my words... ( i tried to turn that off).. menu key presses sometimes.( seems like does not work in landscape mode...)..
pressure to work keys is way all over the map...
location to activate keys is hit and miss...
top of the letter for some.. not for others...
This i looked at the droid and said... oh GOD.. a keyboard and i could actually type on it.. i have big fingers..
Now the Tour.... theres a big maybe
i love the blackberry system even though i do not travel the globe,,,
emails.. interface.. just a nice piece of gear.. but the storm...
the more i use it the more i use the term POS...
OK.. is it me... anyone else willing to be honest in their gripes about this thing?..
should i send it back and demand a new one???
the pressure to activate a key is such that its a crap shoot if its that key or any other the neighbors that will go down.. and then it changes my words.. ( even goes back to the first letter... DARN IT..... im fighting it all the way...
i even sent RIM an email telling them they need to have some kind of pressure adjustment on the keyboard...
tried the idea of a stylus... guess what,,,that wont work at all... i could deal with that because my thumbs cover several keys at once and even though the one i want is "lit up",, who knows if thats the one that will activate..
been a week now and ive been giving it a real try but i am so disgusted with this thing...
some times the keyboard goes away in portrait ,,, sometimes not... ( that drag thing to remove keyboard and see entire menu...
OK... im done ranting and please dont call me a troll...
i have gone through the help menus over and over.. tried all kinds of stuff..
cant seem to find out where to turn all that auto stuff of for the landscape mode.. let me make my own typos... at least i can figure out what im saying., rather than this thing inventing random words.
Ok Blackberry Gurus... I'm all ears.. or is this one of those that should be taken back.. do i take it to store or mail it back.(purchased online). i can imagine store going yadayada at me telling them this storm is just not what everyone else is bragging about. but i would like to get another one right away and see if its the same...
there a lot to like and a lot to wish for on this phone...or is this like microsoft where it takes 3 or 4 versions to get it right???
Anyone have any real world opinions on this vs the tour??? ( other than the obvious,,, memory.. bigger screen.. ( with a big keyboard taking up most of it in landscape mode and then BB software giving me this little tiny one line window to see what im saying... ( what 3 lines of text to read...)... very lame.. skip the black bar with the return phone number and lets see more of the darned message!!!!
sorry..do i sound very frustrated... well.. yes..i am..
WOW.. one thing i do like... is that my SMS messages stay in a tread....
now that is nice!!!! wish is could say more... ok.. beautiful screen... nice feel... beautiful phone ( to look at)...
Many thanks!!!
Wayne