I don't have personal experience with the Storm, but David Pogue of the New York Times pretty much slammed the Storm when he reviewed it back in November:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html Maria On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Michael Micheletti <michael.michele...@gmail.com> wrote: > I stopped by the Verizon booth in the mall the other day to try out a > Blackberry Storm, the new one with the touchscreen. I'm a current Verizon > customer, and my antique Moto Razor is about to do the El Croako. I'd heard > the Storm had a good browser and a great screen for viewing media. Since > Verizon has treated me pretty well and I've no complaints about their > service, I was curious about their new phone. > > The guy at the booth let me play with theirs. I tried typing on it, and was > not very successful. The Storm's touch screen acts like a button, so you > have to press it down to enter a character. But it also acts like a > touchscreen, so there's obviously no indent for your finger to know when > you're over a button. I mistyped many characters, sometimes more than once, > and got frustrated after a few minutes of fiddling with it. > > Perhaps this is just me. I'm curious to know if others on this list have > successfully adapted to the Storm's unique touchscreen/button controls. Or > if anyone here helped test or develop it and would like to share something > of their experiences. Some million or so people have eagerly purchased this > handset; I'd like to know how it's worked out for you. Thanks, > > Michael Micheletti > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
