Blackberry Storm Software may have issues
Oh I would really like a Blackberry Storm but when I read reports like this it’s make me wonder should I sign on the dotted line for a contract or maybe just wait a little when to see what happens….anyway…Eric Zeman reports from Information Week has been testing the Storm and has highlighted several severe problems with the phone.
The first issue “RIM claims that the Storm gets 6 hours of talk time. I completely killed the Storm’s battery in a single day. It had a full charge at 8AM, and by midnight, the Storm was flashing ‘low battery’ warnings at me.”
The second issue “The camera software and video playback software both crashed the phone completely several times, requiring me to pull the battery to reset the Storm,”
The third issue “”The Storm’s display is touch sensitive for navigating the menus, swiping up and down and back and forth. In order to actually open folders or applications, you have to press the screen forcefully. The entire screen is one big button. You’ll feel it click, giving you the physical feedback that other touch phones lack. This is fine for selecting applications and interacting with most of the Storm’s features, but it just doesn’t cut it when it comes to typing… Physically pressing the Storm’s screen down to type each letter was just tiresome.”
From reading this your wouldn’t want to touch one but I was thinking he just got an early test model and we all know that there can be bug in early models. But, Zeman requested a second phone and found all the same issues.
To sum it all up I like his line “Early adopters are going to pay a heavy price in testing what is clearly unfinished software on the Storm.”
Makes you wonder….!
Via informationweek
Tagged: Blackberry Storm
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I got one of these in early January and have since given up with it. It is absolute rubbish – it keeps dropping calls, after a full charge and leaving bluetooth on my phone was dead at 4pm! Texting and e-mailing is just so frustrating because it keeps selecting the wrong letters (and no I dont have hands the size of shovels).
Sat-nav does not appear to work…loads more issues I just cant be bothered to tell.
Vodafone have been less than helpful.
A friend also bought one at the same time and had the same and more issues – Vodafone have just agreed to replace it with a Nokia n71.
As yet I have had no success with them in trying to resolve the matter.
I will not be recommending anyone to spend there own or their companies money on this one.
ive seen this phone all over the place and i was thinking of getting it to replace my blackberry pearl, because it had been glitching 7 times a day. anyway, i thought the phone would be a good one to have nbut after reading these im thinking twice! but it has been awhile since it was put on the market so i think they could have fixed the glitches but im still sceptical about it.
I’m sure some of these issue may be fixed at this stage. I’ve not seen many reports over the past few months so hopfully that means that the problems have been fixed.