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RIM BlackBerry Storm and its many problems

Extensive use of Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry Storm by Information Week has highlighted several severe problems with the smartphone. One being the battery life, RIM say that the Storm has 6 hours talk time but on a full charge of battery charged at 8am by midnight the Storm was flashing signals saying “Low battery”.

Typing on the BlackBerry also scored pretty low marks, its very slow and frustrating, you have to be forceful when you touch the screen and wait for it to click back before preceding to your next character the whole texting experience becomes very tiresome on the Storm.

The worse thing of all with the RIM BlackBerry Storm is that is pretty infested with bugs (not the creepy crawly kind) for instance the accelerometer hardly ever works like it is suppose to, literally it can take up to a minute for the Storm to catch up when you rotate the phone, not only that sometimes the Storm has a mind of its own and decides to switch from Horizontal viewing for no apparent reason.

Source: macdailynews

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4 thoughts on “RIM BlackBerry Storm and its many problems”

  1. Chris says:

    Well I agree with EVERYTHING Macnews said. I have all of the same problems, and now my BB Storm is slower than a 286 computer. The only good thing with the storm is the incredible screen resolution.
    The worst thing is the typing. it is hard enough to get the right letters, but you miss an error and try to go back – there are no scroll keys, so you get as close as you can and delete or backspace to get to your error, then retype what you just erased.
    I am VERY disappointed with mine!

  2. Chris B says:

    This is not as much of a rant as it sounds but my total experience over the past month, what a wonderful month it was.

    I have had all of the above problems and more. I am sending mine back today as soon as customer service opens on the east coast. I have never been so frustrated with a device in my life! Oh…and when the screen flips on its own for no apparent reason or the keyboard appears or disappears at will….I have no 3G service anywhere but someone sitting next to me with an i phone has no issues at all. The next feature I love is the addition of dropped calls for no reason. Next when tethered to my laptop the connection on broadband is 3x slower than dial up and then it will drop the connection right at the end of the DL.
    This phone may be great someday if they keep developing it after debugging the current problems but I can’t ever believe the click screen in its current form will be easy to use or even less than frustating. I would rather just carry my laptop for apps and a normal dependable cellphone for the time being. I’m in a two year contract with Verizon with 4 lines and that is probably the only thing preventing the jump to At&t, the i phone and I’m sure they know it.
    Bottom line I wouldn’t tell anyone to buy this phone for any reason unless they like to carry a heavy usless brick in their pocket just for laughs or if they are entertained by frustrating devices with limited connectivity. I think I’ll just revert to a reliable phone like the enV2. This marks the end of early tech adoption on cellphones for me as I’ve lost a month of mobile life due to this brick.

    I’ve had other smartphones and this is the the “sling Blade” of smartphones.
    I’m an IT professional used to complicated devices and new technology so a few bugs aren’t usually enough to bother me but this phone has frustrated me to no end. Goodbye Storm.

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