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Re: New Blackberry
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chupid names 
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chupid names let me go edit
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Re: New Blackberry
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
not that I quite get the water-boarding comment
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Bush preferred way of torture. Inducing an illusion of drowning by repeatedly submerging or inducing water into the victim. I was making it reference to the water death of your phone.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">u can still give me a review of it anyways.
I am sure it can do things that I havent discovered yet. </div></div>I don't own one right now. In fact I don't even have a handset right now. The last and only BB I had was a Pearl. I loved the build quality and the reliability, but I wanted more than a mono speaker a larger screen and more onboard memory.
I suspect that if BB carried out the best aspects of the Pearl to all its subsequent iterations they would have been good handsets already with plenty of added bells and whistles.Comment
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No Keyboard?-You Call This a BlackBerry?
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">No Keyboard? And You Call This a BlackBerry? </span>
<span style="font-style: italic">By DAVID POGUE
Published: November 26, 2008 </span>
Research in Motion (R.I.M.), the company that brought us the BlackBerry, has been on a roll lately. For a couple of years now, it’s delivered a series of gorgeous, functional, supremely reliable smartphones that, to this day, outsell even the much-adored iPhone.
The Storm can display a touch-screen Qwerty keyboard, above, or SureType keys.
Here’s a great example of the intelligence that drives R.I.M.: The phones all have simple, memorable, logical names instead of incomprehensible model numbers. There’s the BlackBerry Pearl (with a translucent trackball). The BlackBerry Flip (with a folding design). The BlackBerry Bold (with a stunning design and faux-leather back).
Well, there’s a new one, just out ($200 after rebate, with two-year Verizon contract), officially called the BlackBerry Storm.
But I’ve got a better name for it: the BlackBerry Dud.
The first sign of trouble was the concept: a touch-screen BlackBerry. That’s right — in its zeal to cash in on some of that iPhone touch-screen mania, R.I.M. has created a BlackBerry without a physical keyboard.
Hello? Isn’t the thumb keyboard the defining feature of a BlackBerry? A BlackBerry without a keyboard is like an iPod without a scroll wheel. A Prius with terrible mileage. Cracker Jack without a prize inside.
R.I.M. hoped to soften the blow by endowing its touch screen with something extra: clickiness. The entire screen acts like a mouse button. Press hard enough, and it actually responds with a little plastic click.
As a result, the Storm offers two degrees of touchiness. You can tap the screen lightly, or you can press firmly to register the palpable click.
It’s not a bad idea. In fact, it ought to make the on-screen keyboard feel more like actual keys. In principle, you could design a brilliant operating system where the two kinds of taps do two different things. Tap lightly to type a letter — click fully to get a pop-up menu of accented characters (é, è, ë and so on). Tap lightly to open something, click fully to open a shortcut menu of options. And so on.
Unfortunately, R.I.M.’s execution is inconsistent and confusing.
Where to begin? Maybe with e-mail, the most important function of a BlackBerry. On the Storm, a light touch highlights the key but doesn’t type anything. It accomplishes nothing — a wasted software-design opportunity. Only by clicking fully do you produce a typed letter.
It’s too much work, like using a manual typewriter. (“I couldn’t send two e-mails on this thing,” said one disappointed veteran.)
It’s no help that the Storm shows you two different keyboards, depending on how you’re holding it (it has a tilt sensor like the iPhone’s).
When you hold it horizontally, you get the full, familiar Qwerty keyboard layout. But when you turn it upright, you get the less accurate SureType keyboard, where two letters appear on each “key,” and the software tries to figure out which word you’re typing.
For example, to type “get,” you press the GH, ER and TY keys. Unfortunately, that’s also “hey.” You can see the problem. And trying to enter Web addresses or unusual last names is utterly hopeless.
Furthermore, despite having had more than a year to study the iPhone, R.I.M. has failed to exploit the virtues of an on-screen keyboard. A virtual keyboard’s keys can change, permitting you to switch languages or even alphabet systems within a single sentence. A virtual keyboard can offer canned blobs of text like “.com” and “.org” when it senses that you’re entering a Web address, or offer an @ key when addressing e-mail.
But not on the Storm.
Incredibly, the Storm even muffs simple navigation tasks. When you open a menu, the commands are too close together; even if your finger seems to be squarely on the proper item, your click often winds up activating something else in the list.
To scroll a list, you’re supposed to flick your finger across the screen, just as on the iPhone. But even this simple act is head-bangingly frustrating; the phone takes far too long to figure out that you’re swiping and not just tapping. It inevitably highlights some random list item when you began to swipe, and then there’s a disorienting delay before the scrolling begins.
There’s no momentum to the scrolling, either, as on the iPhone or a Google phone; you can’t flick faster to scroll farther. Scrolling through a long list of phone numbers or messages, therefore, is exhausting.
Nor is that the Storm’s only delayed reaction. It can take two full seconds for the screen image to change when you turn it 90 degrees, three seconds for a program to appear, five seconds for a button-tap to register. (Remember: To convert seconds into BlackBerry time, multiply by seven.)
In short, trying to navigate this thing isn’t just an exercise in frustration — it’s a marathon of frustration.
I haven’t found a soul who tried this machine who wasn’t appalled, baffled or both.
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Re: No Keyboard?-You Call This a BlackBerry?
ah. I do what the water-board method is, but since I actually liked my previous phone and didnt mean to kill it, the torture reference was lost on me Forgive my slowness, I am still in mourning 
And look, you all said I should have waited for the silly Storm
Touch pad with no keyboard is dumb as hell.
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Re: No Keyboard?-You Call This a BlackBerry?
and can anyone answer why if I send a jpg photo as an attachment to my phone, it converts it to a pdf file or a windat file instead? Why doesnt it just keep the same file format that the item was orginally sent in?Comment
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Re: No Keyboard?-You Call This a BlackBerry?
lol traditional blackberry customers like their keypad so I predict weak sales for the storm, unless it is way better than the IPOD to steal customers there
I dont want anyting touch screen EVERComment
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Re: No Keyboard?-You Call This a BlackBerry?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
and can anyone answer why if I send a jpg photo as an attachment to my phone, it converts it to a pdf file or a windat file instead? Why doesnt it just keep the same file format that the item was orginally sent in? </div></div>You might have to change the file handler. Apparently you phone is set to cause PDF and w\WINDAT to handle all attachments including jpeg files. You want to set it so that a graphic program handles the graphic files.... I don't know how since I don't have a phone.
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">You can try the BB forum.....</span>
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Re: No Keyboard?-You Call This a BlackBerry?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">lol traditional blackberry customers like their keypad so I predict weak sales for the storm, unless it is way better than the IPOD to steal customers there
I dont want anyting touch screen EVER </div></div>.... He did go on to say it was a good device otherwise but I know what you mean.
My requirements in a Handset are that is replaces my Portable Multimedia Player. So Touch Screen is essential and stereo built in loudspeakers, except for the BB Pearl, which perfect as a Multimedia Device and a phone with no TS and just mono built in loudspeakers.
If BB could have made the storm with a functional hard keyboard, no touch screen and retain the same ease of use as the BB Pearl then it would be the phone for me.
Seems they went overboard and made an MMPlayer and less of a BB.Comment
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Re: No Keyboard?-You Call This a BlackBerry?
the name of the forum is sooo wrong
thanks though
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
and can anyone answer why if I send a jpg photo as an attachment to my phone, it converts it to a pdf file or a windat file instead? Why doesnt it just keep the same file format that the item was orginally sent in? </div></div>You might have to change the file handler. Apparently you phone is set to cause PDF and w\WINDAT to handle all attachments including jpeg files. You want to set it so that a graphic program handles the graphic files.... I don't know how since I don't have a phone.
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">You can try the BB forum.....</span>
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Re: New Blackberry
Nylah note re voice dialing, u dont have to call a name, u can be driving and need to call a number u can just say the number and the phone will call it and yes I am a bberry fanatic, i find the messenger on there to be quite good and the mapping system has gotten me out of sticky situations where my auto -gps has failedComment
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Re: New Blackberry
I didnt know that about the voice dailing. I have just been saying the names and didnt know reciting the # has the same effect
the only thing is I never remember ppl's actual phone numbers I have to look up my mom's cell cause I cant keep it straight
do u know how to change the file attachment issue I mentioned above? Cant find an answer in the other forum.Comment
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Re: New Blackberry
yeah i do but i'm a have to xperiment again and figure it out and come back an tell u.
BTW i dont recite numbers but i found it helpful if I am driving past a billboard and wanna call the number on there and I cant write it down I recite it the phone calls it i hang up bam, now the number is saved to the phone.Comment
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Re: New Blackberry
ohhh, I see what you are saying. That is a good idea, so u dont have to memorize a number u may want later on.Comment
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