[bobmartin25]

I have been using the Blackberry Storm since December 5, 2008. My background is that I have not owned a Blackberry before. I did own a smart phone, without touch screen before upgrading to the Storm. I have owned a Windows CE HP 545, touch screen PDA. I am an old geek who loves technology.

How do I use the Storm?
Telephone
Web Browser
Occasional Email
Book Reader
GPS with Garmin and Google Maps
Auto Tracker
News Readers
Banking
Notes
Bible
Occasionally Listen to Music
Occasionally Listen to Radio using Moodio
Contact list
Todo List
Calendar
Alarm Clock
VIIGO
Occasionally use the Camera
Tetherberry

Overall I really like the Storm and would probably have a hard time going back to a smaller less brilliant screen. As a phone the voice quality is second to none and the Verizon network hasn�t failed me anywhere in the US yet.

I find reading to be easy on the eyes and a nice way to pass time, like at the airport or in the air plane, I use Mobipocket. The Garmin GPS application works almost as well as a stand alone Garmin and certainly well enough to get me where I want to go.

There are a couple of things about the touch screen that perplex me from time to time. When you pull the Storm from the case it seems to take it a while to orient itself and decide whether it wants to be portrait or landscape, all the while I�m trying to see who is calling. When placing a call I sometimes forget that it doesn�t have a keypad so when I get an answering service asking for input I have to scramble to bring up the keypad then hit a key. Sometimes when a yes or no dialog box pops up it seems to be difficult to hit the Yes or No, even though the Yes may be selected it doesn�t respond the first or second time I click the screen. I also find that sometimes I have selected a function but as I press to click the screen it selects the function next to the one I want. Perhaps I have one of the bad screens, I don�t know.

Other than these little annoyances the storm works for me and I wouldn�t trade it for anything else out there, including the iphone.

[kinggeoff]

I couldnt agree more with almost every single thing you've said.

Does it have hiccups? sure. Are they a dealbreaker? not by any stretch in my opinion