Friday, December 19, 2008

Day one review of Storm

Overall I really like the phone.  I still would like a week to give it my offical review but here are some quick day one notes:

Pros
  • I have the typing down (I'm still faster on my pearl)
  • Touch screen with click is nice
  • Screen is wonderful and video podcasts look great
  • Facebook reinstall fixed menu problem (I blame stupid appstore)
  • Voice quality is good and my old Bluetooth headset connected quickly
  • Easy to move icons around and customize it to your preferences

Cons
  • Still haven't got the browser down (zoom when I want to click or click on the wrong thing)
  • I miss the scroll ball
  • Takes to long to reboot (if you install something)
  • Flips to landscape to quick (Maybe I hold my BB to flat)
  • Same with my last blackberry - I feel like the mute button should also be a Silent or vibrate button that switches to configurable profile (top left)
  • I have answered the phone upside down when I'm using it in landscape mode (strange feeling)

Still need to figure out
  • Google maps still doesn't use GPS (works with NAV4ALL and BB Maps)
  • Need an app to easily upload video

Wish list
  • e-mail/messages in conversation (like g-mail or IM messages)
  • More app to work with new OS (bbPlaces and Qik don't work)
  • An application store that works and is up to date (version looks to control it 9)

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

BlackBerry Storm 1 hour review

Well, I can't really say that I got to do much in the first hour.  I basically played with it for 10 min and then upgraded it to v4.7 of the OS that wasn't a quick process.  I'm not sure what was on it before but  4.7 works pretty well.  So, first hour was basically set up and that's it.  My first hour review:

Pros
  • I like the luck button (on my old BB I remaped the 
  • Love the auto focus camera: you can push the button (or touch the screen) and it focuses so when you take the picture it's a quick process (about a second)
  • Transfer of contact and settings was seamless from other BB

They need to fix
  • Sporadic menu drawing errors (ex, Facebook's submenu never looks quite right)
  • Browser isn't quite there yet (maybe I just need to get used to it)
  • Landscape suretype keyboard option
  • Stop letting applications control the type of keyboard (ex, Opra Mini doesn't use suretype)
  • Application store is down right embarrassing
  • A little disappointed my mail accounts didn't port over but that's due to switching providers

ToDo
  • Figure out why Goggle Maps isn't using the GPS (BB Maps does)
  • Move around icons (not a fan of default folders)
  • Look for some new applications
  • Make some calls on it