Pinch to zoom on Storm
- Will there be 3rd party applications that enable the pinch to zoom feature on the Storm? Is the storms hardware capable of such a feature, and why would they not implement such a great feature? If we lived in an ideal world we would have a phone as great as the Iphone on Verizon!11-09-08 05:03 PMLike 0
- Accidental PostSlayer of MisinformationApple has patented that pinch to zoom stuff. Do a quick search for the manual and you will see it uses a double tap. Also the iPhone is not as great as you would think and the storm is gearing up to be so much better.....11-09-08 05:06 PMLike 0
- Maybe for you personally the pinch feature is not great but for the 10 million Iphone users it's absolutely amazing! It is my favorite feature of the Iphone! Well the web browsing is, this is the most important for me. I hate AT&T with a passion so I had to resort carrying an Iphone and a very underachieving Lg Dare for voice! The funny thing is I read many reviews that have the Iphone an Dare at a pretty much equal! That's why you can never trust what you read! It is getting tiresome carrying 2 phones, 1 for internet and the Verizon for voice.
Edit: Also the dare has the double tap feature for zooming. Anyone who says this i scomparable to the pinch to zoom feature is flatly lying or has just never used the great pinch to zoom feature.Last edited by Faker; 11-09-08 at 05:25 PM.
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don't forget 3rd party browsers like opera and (joy) firefox mobile which is due soon.
11-09-08 05:30 PMLike 0 - Crucial_XtremeRetired ModeratorThat is/was a theme. That has nothing to do with the way the device functions. The Storm in and of itself is enough reason to switch from the Iphone. IMHO, it's a much better overall device. I believe sales will prove my opinion.11-09-08 05:30 PMLike 0
- Maybe for you personally the pinch feature is not great but for the 10 million Iphone users it's absolutely amazing! It is my favorite feature of the Iphone! Well the web browsing is, this is the most important for me. I hate AT&T with a passion so I had to resort carrying an Iphone and a very underachieving Lg Dare for voice! The funny thing is I read many reviews that have the Iphone an Dare at a pretty much equal! That's why you can never trust what you read! It is getting tiresome carrying 2 phones, 1 for internet and the Verizon for voice.
Edit: Also the dare has the double tap feature for zooming. Anyone who says this i scomparable to the pinch to zoom feature is flatly lying or has just never used the great pinch to zoom feature.11-09-08 05:32 PMLike 0 - Accidental PostSlayer of MisinformationAnybody getting the feeling this faker character is a BGR groupie?11-09-08 05:33 PMLike 0
- Crucial_XtremeRetired ModeratorPersonally, I prefer the double tap to zoom over the pinching method.11-09-08 05:34 PMLike 0
- Thanks for all the replies. I guess I will have to wait and use the storm before I can decide. I want a browsing experience that will be similar to the iphone. I feel the double tap doesnt give you as much control and precision as the pinch to zoom feature.
I already looked at operah and they have the double tap feature. Hopefully they implement it and hopefully the storms hardware is capable of executing it. I dont know enough about the blackberry community, but is there any programming buffs that sit around and make software to make such a feature work? For instance if someone figures out how to install safari on the storm will this feature work?11-09-08 05:48 PMLike 0 -
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Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com11-09-08 06:00 PMLike 0 - Think about what you just said, now think about how many corporations supply there workers with Blackberrys.11-09-08 06:01 PMLike 0
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Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com11-09-08 06:17 PMLike 0 - Pinch-to-zoom is a cool feature. I can't argue the merits of it vs. double-tap to zoom unless I have both in hand.
Still, I have to wonder why a company that creates a feature as cool as that, thinks cut-and-paste has no value.11-09-08 06:22 PMLike 0 - Maybe I am lucky since i have never used a pinch zoom device before so I have nothing to compare the double tap to. I have seen many people trying unsuccessfully to use that pinch feature before... Reminds me of a kid playing with gum
From a convenience \ usability stand point I would think the double tap is a better solution.
Like many features that both devices share I think the BB implementation is more thought out. Iphone seems to be ... look at this, wow that is cool... but after you get through the novelty of the pretty features it is a pain to use.
Again I have never used an Iphone. I am only going off other people who have relayed their experience to me.11-09-08 06:37 PMLike 0 - Crucial_XtremeRetired ModeratorPlease show me where I said it will out sell the Iphone? Or any device for that matter. Don't put words in my mouth.11-09-08 06:51 PMLike 0
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think about what YOU just said, apple recently just moved ahead of RIM in the smartphone sales department, RIM has several models that are sold worldwide. Apple has one generic device that is sold worldwide. You do the math
Apple, just a year and a half into the smartphone business, now has a higher marketshare than Canadian giant Research in Motion, and is second place only to Nokia. Apple's 17.3% share is just barely beating out RIM's 15.2%, and of course is nowhere near Nokia's 38.9%, but it's just one more sign of how important the iPhone really is.Last edited by NFLBlitze1; 11-09-08 at 07:03 PM.
11-09-08 07:00 PMLike 0 - pinch to zoom would be a nice option IMO, but i like the double tap b/c i want to have the ease and accuracy of using a phone with one hand. although u can pinch with one hand, it's not has easy/quick as double tapping where u want IMHO11-09-08 07:04 PMLike 0
- Cx or someone else posted a link a while back that went to an article about the company that made the click technology and it mentioned one of the gestures was pinch to zoom. For some reason, RIM didn't include this in the OS. I guess RIM thought double tapping was better. I wonder if RIM will allow third party apps to use pinch to zoom but i believe it does work if programmed. Correct me if i'm wrong Cx.11-09-08 07:09 PMLike 0
- The phone would be totally capable of doing it, the screen allows you to use multi touch, it was left out for some reason. Personally I find that feature neat on the iPhone, it is well executed. I dont think Apple came up with the idea first if you watch the youtube video of the microsoft surface it used the same idea. The phone would have been cool if it included it but I think it needed to be seperated from the iPhone not a copycat.11-09-08 07:24 PMLike 0
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