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- I beg to differ and would actually say that it would require more pressure for selection. With only 1 button all of the force is focused on a small point. By adding buttons, say to a total of 6, the screen is now supported by a significantly larger surface area and would actually require even more force to engage.
Think of it like a bed of nails... if you lay on 1 nail your entire body weight is focused on that one tiny point - you get impaled. But you if you add hundreds of nails, your body weight can be supported.
The only way that clicking would require less pressure than the current gen Storm would be if they used buttons that required less pressure to engage.05-28-09 11:40 PMLike 0 - Wrong. No one said that it would be the same button/switch. You can't believe that there is not a more sensitive button on the market. Also, having more than one button does not mean that all of them have to be pressed. It is possible that one or two would be pressed at a time to activate.05-28-09 11:50 PMLike 0
- I don't know why it didn't fit flush, perhaps it been tossed around so much thats it's wonky... i don't know..
But I do know, that is not a Storm 1 cover. How could it be? The storm 1 cover has latches on the side and an opening for the speaker port. That clearly does not.
Why scratch off the sticker.. again.. I don't know. But if you look at the first leaked pics with the dude in the car with the jeans.. it showed the standard "property of rim" sticker in that exact location.
That sticker was scratched off alright.. but why? I don't know.05-28-09 11:56 PMLike 0 - Time to call in the UFO investigators on this one.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-29-09 12:11 AMLike 0 - As for the buttons, the only way it would require more force if it were close together. For example:
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05-29-09 12:43 AMLike 0 - So, if I take a VZW BlackBerry, and activate it on AT&T, and try to load on an OS from the AT&T website, it will still boot up as VZW?05-29-09 07:09 AMLike 0
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And there is no way thats the battery door from the storm 1. its totally different.05-29-09 07:24 AMLike 0 -
So what does the vendor file do anyways?05-29-09 07:39 AMLike 0 -
Basically its an XML file that says the software is for xxxx device on xxx vendor... Take a look at it, it's pretty obvious...
The "Splash Screen" must be burned into the device in an area that is NOT changed with the software update...
When you update the software you are NOT changing everything on the device...
So the device shown was a Verizon branded device of some form or another... no questions about it.
Let's try and stick with reality here on this thread...
Things know:
1.) The "Storm 2" shown was a Verizon branded storm... it probably came from someone at Verizon that got a demo unit...
2.) The "Storm 2" shown was not fully functional... why was this? I'm guessing it had hardware missing... since the "click" would be handled at a hardware level and would more than likely be seen the same at the software level...
3.) CX, who has one or has used one and knows his stuff, has said there is "more than one button"... he has also said the screen gap is much smaller than it was before...
So let's all just take a deep breath, step back... stay calm... and get excited about a new Storm that will replace an already pretty decent phone...
I use my Storm hard and heavy all day long, for both business and personal usage... and I love it...
Cheers.
Lee.05-29-09 07:59 AMLike 0 - I've decoded the mystery. If you break down Crucials sentence he has been talking to us in code.
Breaking down the sentence structure and inflection reveals an obvious hint that when held underneath a blacklight it says........
TRACKBALL.
There you have it. Straight science and a little decoding has solved this discussion once and for all.
All this speculating could go on for years bringing more diagrams, slideshows, engineering experts, proctologists and urologists.
We were all wrong.
It will have a trackball.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-29-09 09:19 AMLike 0 - Exactly ! , im tlaking verizon branding on the phone its self not the splash screen, there is no verizon logo on the phone ( other then the boot up of 4.7.x.xxx , other than that this "VERIZON BRANDED DEVICE " is really just storm 2 with a forced load of 4.7 on there , and for whoever said the guts are so differnet , i disagree, its going to be the same with a different click(S) thats it. so i would assume 4.7 would boot, i mean **** WE GOT 5.0 FOR BOLD TO LOAD ON THE STORM , thoes internals are like crap and flowers.
Anyway, this has all been covered SEVERAL times before for ANY and ALL Blackberries. It's like noob 101 at Summer School at that. Why do you think that when you upgrade your OS you DON'T change Branding Version on the phones? Anyway, listen to what I'm saying about this whole splash screen stuff... I'm not making it up, but it seems that for some reason (in this thread), unless CX backs up something, it's not true.... even if it's been known for a billion years. (i.e. I'm willing to bet sooks would probably tell me I'm wrong if I told him the sun rises from the East as well. )05-29-09 09:39 AMLike 0 - Thanks for the clarification from you and britishturbo. I was actually not aware that VZW and AT&T didn't share any BB models... but I do know about the difference between GSM and CDMA (worked for VZW in college).
Now the whole flexible screen idea makes a lot more sense... you could then have something like 9 buttons under the screen working. That way, the click feels more consistant yet you don't have the combined pressure needed to click all at once when selecting something from the center of the screen.
My only question about that, is how flexible are these screens? How good is the resolution? Will there be a drop off from the current model? If so, I'll pass..05-29-09 10:24 AMLike 0 - Actually, the whole flexible screen idea would be great. Instead of multiple buttons, you could use an array of button contacts like the one under normal keyboards (as mentioned earlier). The array could be under the entire screen and then the screen wouldn't need a lot of clearance on the edges to function. I actually thought this is how they were going to do it on the first Storm, but they didn't. No doubt the costs would be slightly higher going this route and the main board would have to be redesigned to house the entire array or they'd need another board for this in place of the current backplate for the screen design. One thing is for sure, this type of design would get rid of the chance that screen clicking could diminish over time. Something the current Storm is plagued with.
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Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com05-29-09 02:03 PMLike 0 - As long as they keep supporting the one we've got (which previous model history shows they probably will) with updates, this doesn't bother me much.05-29-09 03:55 PMLike 0
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