The Competition: BlackBerry Storm 2 — Do Over?
BlackBerry Storm2, RIM’s second bite at Apple’s multi-touch, black slab iPhone form factor, is just about ready for prime time, and as always, our sibling site CrackBerry.com has the complete Storm2 review. Kevin sums it up thusly:
The Storm2 fixes many of the BlackBerry Storm’s outstanding issues and makes a ton of incremental improvements, all of which add up to something that feels noticeably better. In a way that never quite applied to the original Storm, the Storm2 could legitimately be called the flagship BlackBerry.
Sounds fair to us! The Storm too got little-to-no love for RIM, even from RIM, but Storm 2 sounds like it fixes a lot of what went wrong the first time around. The build quality is better and that monstrous single-button screen of carpal tunnel has been replaced by a more sophisticated, and natural-typing friendly multi-press technology.
Sure, it’s still got that trusty, rusty BlackBerry J2ME OS and middling browser (for now) but with App World this time around, and Verizon’s network power (hey, it’s better than their chart-making power!) behind it, those users whose venn-diagram intersects CDMA with BlackBerry with touchscreen might finally have a usable option.
Check out the full review, then let us know if Apple has anything to worry about, berry-wise…
October 14th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
First
October 14th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
I wanted to be first
October 14th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
So cool, I’d prefer to have one! It looks so cool . And pushmail..bbm5.0…
October 14th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Woa! Cool! JavaScript comes turned on by default! Way2go RIM!! Rene you MUST invite Kevin onto tipb live. You must. And you MUST bring up JavaScript being turned on.
October 14th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
@colyon
i hope your joking.
October 14th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
if i were rich, i’d have one of these as backup when my at&t iphone doesnt have signal. =D itd be fun to mess with from time to time.
October 15th, 2009 at 1:08 am
I’d pick it over Android. But iPhone is a long way ahead now!
October 15th, 2009 at 1:25 am
last time I checked the iPhone 3G[s] wasn’t a big improvement from the iPhone 3G. the 3.0 OS was more anticipated than anything else…
October 15th, 2009 at 1:46 am
NO WAY!!!!.. JavaScript turned on by Default? HOLY ****… THAT’S TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!
Blackberry fan-boy’s are clutching at straws with this phone.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Jon it’s a way different iPhone. Lots of improvements. Biggest one being when they roll out the 7.2 the old 3G won’t do it. Then there’s the video camera. And 3mp still camera. Voice control. Compass. And it’s got a 600 MHz processor. Compared to 400. And 256 mega of ram vs 128. Augmented reality. There are a tin of things is does over the older one.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:54 am
Seen a few video demonstrations of this not impressed at all. When will Rim get the message, it’s all about the software stupid!
October 15th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Still have to press down…
Fail.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:18 am
@fastlane click to confirm is genius. S2 screen doesn’t move.
October 15th, 2009 at 8:23 am
fastlane is too weak to press the screen…lol
October 15th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Don’t have to press… I have an iPhone (touch to confirm).
October 15th, 2009 at 8:40 am
It looks like a nice phone. I will have to mess with one myself when they come out. I think it will be a nice improvement over the first Storm. In terms of iPhone competitiveness, however, too little too late. RIM has failed on this concept here and they are way too far behind the iPhone at this point in time to produce a legitimate contender to take away market share from Apple.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:52 am
I bought the Storm 1 the day it cam out. The Storm 2 is the reason I switched to the iphone (best decision I have ever made!!!) It pissed me off that they were going to release another phone without fixing the MANY MANY problems the first one had. The Storm is still an inferior phone by far!!! I will never look back!!!
October 15th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Storm 2 > iPhone 3GS
October 15th, 2009 at 11:03 am
the surepress idea just really isnt catchy..it would have meant alot more if it would have worked the first time around but i cant see anybody grasp the idea that its a cool feature anymore…if there was someway, like an option in settings, to turn the clicking off and just use the touchscreen…maybe that might sell a few more storm2’s…idk..as a storm owner, i dont feel like they did enough improvements to trick me into a new 2 year contract. i have 2 more lines i can add and the iphone for verizon is going on one of them
needless to say, i very doubt it will happen with the latest, “theres a map for that” commercial and the android merge…
October 15th, 2009 at 11:32 am
I waited in line for 3 hours for storm 1 had it for 5 days TRIED to like and returned it and now i am officially iPhone for life!!!