Comments on: Surprise! BlackBerry Storm costs more to build than the iPhone 3G

By: Marc M.

Marc M. — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:59:48 +0000

Aww thank you, your words of encouragement will allow me to carry on. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do without dark cobra’s approval!

By: Dark Cobra

Dark Cobra — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:10:22 +0000

Awe . . . sowy little Markie . . . didn’t mean to hurt your wittle feelings or bruise your ego. You’ll be ok. LOL!

By: Marc M.

Marc M. — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:48:48 +0000

Stop hugging trees you damn righteous self loathing hippie!

I may grow up someday, but hopefully at that point you’ll also grow a sense of humor. It’s the internet! Get over it!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:46:21 +0000

The cost becomes irrelavent if the product doesn't do what it's supposed to. Personally, my Pearl has lived up to my expectations 98%. My only issue is I'm still a little hesitant about storing confidential client data on it for long periods of time due to theft, security vulnerabilities, etc. I do use this new digital security site though and have tried to learn more.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:49:28 +0000

I think the cost does not matters much. The actual thing that matters is the features and services, and according to me BB wins here.

By: Dark Cobra

Dark Cobra — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:07:47 +0000

@ Marc M

Well I’m not Mexican but even I gotta admit the racial slander your spewed was a bit over the top and had little to do with the phone and contributed nothing. Then again you’re only a 21 year old (according to your web site) and in time you will grow up . . . someday . . . but that day is not today.

By: Marc M.

Marc M. — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:12:45 +0000

Aww, Peter loves me!

Hmmm some of my points I brought up in the last post about the Blackberry Storm were mentioned there…That’s a copyright infringement! I’m suing Crunch gear. I wonder what I can do with $7.33.

Anyways, to be a little serious. I agree with Derrick 100%. I’ve said this many times and I’ll say it again, the iPhone was horrible when it first came out! A lot of hiccups, tons of crashing, it was worse then the Storm. This phone just needs maybe one or two more software updates for it to come into it’s own. For god sakes RIM is pooping out updates like Mexicans give birth, so you have to give them a little bit of credit.

Peter, I’m glad you’re giving the Storm another chance, I really think if you give it a week or two you’ll come to really like it.

Thanks again Peter for caring about my sanity. The blogger world couldn’t contain my comments if I were insane!

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:53:33 +0000

Don’t break a nail? We all want a hybrid BB so let’s hope that’s what RIM plans to do with the Storm 2 or whatever they’re going to call it. I hate on the Storm because it’s not productive compared to its physical keyboard brethren. That’s all it is. I don’t like touch-screen devices for e-mailing and texting.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:48:34 +0000

“The touch-screen just hurts my thumbs.”
Don’t break a nail Peter.
I was an instant BB fanboy when I first got my hands on a Pearl, so I am not gonna pretend to be unbiased when it comes to the Storm but its really not that bad of a phone. I personally can’t give up a physical keyboard so I am generally not a fan of touch screens, but if I was forced to choose between the Storm and the iPhone I would go Storm. I like the click screen, it helps my fat fingers type. What I am waiting for is a touch screen hybrid, shaped like the Curve 2 with a touch screen for icons and menu buttons, but a keyboard for typing. That is the holy grail.

Yeah the Storm has had its growing pains but so did the iPhone, remember when the iPhone 3g came out, with the only major change being the 3g compatibility? Remember how the 3g network was basically trash for the first month or so? Remember how when the original iPhone came out and people were stuck with expensive paperweights because the registration network was down for a few weeks?

Every bit of expensive electronic equipment will have its growing pains. Not fair to expect BB Storm to jump all these growing pains, especially because its a first gen touch screen from RIM.

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:39:48 +0000

And if I like something then what?

PS- I’m not a fan of holding my breath.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:35:53 +0000

Mine stays on 24/7 (no house phone).

My complain..only the camera is slow. everything else works just fine and yes I use most features.

I don’t know Peter,but it’s getting to the point when he doesn’t like something I take that as a clue for me to try it because we disagree 80% of the time

By: murph

murph — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:03:01 +0000

i actually like the whole click-screen aspect of typing. that works pretty well. it’s the whole rest of the OS, accelerometer, and sluggishness that sucks.

OS .90 is decent step in the right direction. RIM needs to fix a couple of show stopper bugs and VZW needs to release that update ASAP.