Imagine if you will a video box below. That is where my short video review of the phone was going to go. But then I started reading the internets. Oh my.
Crackberry.com actually has a link to the updated software, .75, for the Storm that cures many of the issues with the accelerometer, among others. The even posted a video to show the differences. I only wish I could get it.
Then, I look over to BGR and they already have the next rev, .76. According to their report it actually improves things over .75.
Since I don’t want to install the BlackBerry stuff in Windows because my Windows is running like crap, looks like I’m waiting for OTA updates. After the updates come in, watch for a complete review.
If you have any questions about the device, let us know below.
A few more notes about the BlackBerry Storm. So it’s known, I am totally diggin’ this phone.
- In the box BlackBerry included power adapters for Europe, UK and Japan (or airplanes, not sure). Nice.
- Also in the box were a set of crappy ear buds that have a microphone on them. I might find something better. And a USB cable to hook to my computer. Yes it charges.
- The SurePress works pretty well. It’s a bit slower to respond than I would like but there are settings I can tweak for that. Being a touch screen guy I can say that it is exactly like a capacitive resistive panel. Touch to highlight, press to select.
- The media player is pretty sweet. I loaded up some songs I bought from Amazon and a few episodes of Top Gear. Audio playback is awesome! Dare I say better than my iPod Nano. Video playback is slightly jerky on fast moving things (hands clapping for example) but not so bad that’s it bothers you.
- It has a 1/8″ headphone jack. This is new to me since most other VZ media phones have that useless 1/16″ headphone jack (or whatever size it is).
- The accelerometer is a bit slow to rotate the screen. And it gets confused if you are holding the phone in your lap. I’m hoping a software update cures this.
- Sync’ing with the mac has been problematic. I’ve been trying PocketMac and so far it’s only been able to sync once. I’m going to try one more uninstall/reinstall before I pony up for Missing Sync.
- Call quality is great!
- Email/messaging is awesome. I’m sure not as elegant as the ATP, but I think it’s pretty good.
- Applications install easily. I only have a few so far. Waiting for QiK and a decent twitter client. Twitterberry is ok, but it doesn’t understand that the screen can go landscape.
- Battery life seems to be epic. Fully charged last night, watched a bit of top gear and listened to a few songs, plus left it on all night and I was only down 1 bar of battery life. Pretty sure this phone will go all day and then some on a charge.
Questions? Something you want to know? leave a comment below!
Not the greatest, but not teh suck either I don’t think.
Yep, Finally got it and have been playing with it for about 2 hours now. Lets start with a photo.
Click through for the full size if you want. 3.2MP means 2048 x 1536. Not to shabby, not too shabby at all.
Not ever using a BlackBerry or Jesus Phone before, I’m sure I will have a little bit of ‘getting used to it’ time, but so far I think it’s pretty cool.
Entering contacts is easy. Making a call is easy and call quality is as good as any other VZ phone I’ve used. Bonus making a conference call is a snap requiring 3 button presses. SWEET!
The web browser works pretty well I think. It doesn’t like some text boxes and doesn’t play flash video so far as I can tell, but every site I’ve viewed so far seems to render correctly. Navigation is a little odd, as is the zoom/unzoom/select, but again, SINTGUT.
Video is next. Watch for that shortly. Go ahead and ask any questions you might have now and I will find out the answers.
For fear of this happening.
Yeah, well that side of humanity is rearing its ugly head again, as an employee perished when legions of crazed Black Friday shoppers blazed through the doors of a Long Island Walmart. The worker was an overnight store clerk who was simply trying to hold back the crowds before the doors officially opened at 5:00AM. According to Jimmy Overby, another employee at the store: “They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me.”
A problem I, or any employee of Amazon.com, would not have any day of the week as I sit in front of my computer.
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