24 Hour Review! (its positive)
Got my torch less than 24 hours ago I suppose. Heres my impressions from the start in the store.
Weight - similar to my old storm - so the weight to me felt good.
Build quality - amazing. It makes me kind of laugh at the comments i heard from other people on the board. Comments such as the keys were not clicking, the blackberry menu button or the return button were too squishy, the slider was too hard, too soft, wiggled.
Heres my comments about the slider. First off - mine does not wiggle open or closed more than .5 of a milimeter. That is essentialy the size of this "."
People that complained about the slider wiggling...all i have to say is was it during real daily use? Or trying to make it wiggle - ie sweeping it up and down holding it from the very bottom of the keyboard while exteneded? seriously? ....I digress.
Blackberry OS 6 - I have to say this is a giant step forward. It does definately take some time getting use to. From being a BB addict on my storm, I do love the OS. It wasn't a grown love - the first time i made a phone call, the first time i sent a msg and went on the web it was perfect and exactly how I wanted the phone to function.
The OS build is .246 - which is incredibly smooth. I have not seen this "lag" I have not had any major slow downs. One interesting cool thing and also kind of a down side - I've had the browser crash on me. Now - it crashed and all i had to do was press the "end" key and i was brough back to my normal functioning OS. However I could not launch my browser again until a battery pull. Not a huge issue - but what makes me happy about this ...error/function is it did not lock up my phone. I could still use it - less web browsing. Soo...positive/negative? I don't know.
Is this an iPhone killer? What are you stupid? The iphone is an iphone, the blackberry is a blackberry. This is a BB Storm/curve/pearl/tour and possible bold killer.
After demo'ing this phone to "non iphone users" they were very impressed with the OS, web browsing, and a few of them actually were calling stores to get their hands on it.
The WebKit browser - so far so good. I was using Opera on my storm - that was the only viable way to surf the net. WebKit does the web seemlessly. One of the demo sites I use is dun dun dunnnnn Apple.com - mainly because its a very graphical site - and heavy. And the webkit browser handled it beautifully. Pinch+zoom is usefull. The double tap on text to make it wrap - very cool (except i think it may actually slow down web browsing experience on graphic heavy sites)
Call quality- lest we forget its a phone. Huzza - it makes calls. I only had 1 dropped call - but my old storm use to drop the call in the exact same place. So 1 dropped call - big deal. Sound quality - this is a tricky one - every phone is different. The storm sound quality was great - this phone sounds "richer" if i can explain it that way...So far its a good thing.
Speaker phone - I think they need to add a few amps to the speaker phone...
Video playback - My old argument is - if i want to watch a movie i'll use the projector in my living room - if i want to watch a "porn" or youtube on my blackberry - yes it works - and its good enough quality for a phone. again - i'm not going to upload a 1080i hd movie any time soon...so this is not a sell point for me not a big deal.
Camera - was at the park with my dog last night - took some great action shots of him wrestling another dog - was very impressed. A+
Touch+track pad - wicked combo. I didn't think I'd ever use the trackpad - but **** yes - its a perfect way to use the phone. Web browsing and browsing the OS are simply amazing. The touch is wicked sensitive - and typing on it is so easy. No complaints - only positive.
Keyboard - I use suretype (let the bashing begin) - I love it - always have since the pearl days - Ive used the keyboard ...whatever - its a sell for some ...im looking for a way to remove the keyboard.
Anyways- I highly recommend this phone. questions feel free to pin me
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