Comments on: Verizon Storm ship-by date pushed up to December 8th

By: david

david — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:22:47 +0000

i havent got my storm yet but i’m looking to have fun with it the iphone wasnt pefert when it first came out but just give them a chance to get it right like the iphone did! I think it will be a great pnone.

By: jim wood

jim wood — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:30:28 +0000

well…got my storm. Ill have to agree it is no Iphone killer. So here is my 2 cents….

1. If email and messageing, and BES synced with outlook is your number 1 priority I would pick the storm.

If it is not and surfing the web and watching movies is they get the Iphone.

I am guessing that most people dont even have this phone that are on here… My opinion is there are bugs…they will get fixed with a software update. I dont like the click screen it slows down the typeing which is a key reason you would have a blackberry. I like everything else minis the bugs….

By: Unhappy Verizon Customer

Unhappy Verizon Customer — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:13:22 +0000

I called Verizon when the phone lines opened Friday morning. Was told that I would get overnight shipping and should have my phone between 8 to 12 Saturday morning. No phone. Called back and was told I would have it on the 25th. No phone. Now Ive been told I will get it on the 5th of December. Customer Service and Telesales act like they dont understand why everyone is upset. I was told they had 1 million phones before launch and just simply “sold out”. Not to mention the “systems” went down on friday around 10 in the morning so many orders placed before then didnt get placed until after 2. Which means if you have been talking to verizon you wont get your phone until the 5th, the 8th, or the 15th. I feel with as much money as I pay to Verizon every month (I have multiple lines with them) they could have handled the release of one of the most anticipated phones a lot better. There is no way they could honestly tell me that they didnt know how high the demand would be. To this date I still dont know exactly when I will get my phone and to be honest Im not even sure if I want it anymore.

By: EFrank

EFrank — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:30:17 +0000

I have now met 3 people with Storms. 2 of them are college students and independently showed me their complaints; lag, either doesn’t move at all when turned or does so slowly, difficulty with typing with too much pressure needed and/or difficulty hitting the right keys, somewhat slow browser. All have firmware 65. Interestingly, none of them new of this website and were unaware that their problems were inherent with the current Storm. I told them to come here for settings concerning the responsiveness of the keyboard and for an overview of what is going on. I think that if Rimm doesn’t get a good firmware upgrade withing the 30 day return period these phones will be going back. I am waiting for mine to be delivered by mid December and hoping that it will have a better firmware. At least my 30 day clock will be ticking later. Yes, I know that the Iphone had problems, but some of us will take dropped calls over having to fight with the phone. I wish Verizon had the Bold or equivalent as this will be ( or won’t ) my first Blackberry. I currently have a Palm and I have waited long enough to be rid of that, also with promises it would get better through firmware. It didn’t.

By: BB_Storm4me

BB_Storm4me — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:06:00 +0000

Wow…I’m just blown away with all the hatred of the some Storm comments. The most common being slow response issues.

Okay, lets agree that the Storm probably wasn’t “done.” Is any phone really done on launch? Come on, the iPhone has lots of “issues” and shortcomings too. The reality is that very view products are released that are perfect.

With the Storm 1.0 now on the streets, I’ll bet that well over 80% of the people who have one are happy enough with it to keep it and are willing to wait for some updates to make it smoother, faster, and better.

The iPhone has been out for a lot longer and is the only phone that Apple makes. It better be butter smooth, but it has plenty of flaws and shortcomings of it’s own.

The majority of people who use cell phones everyday do not frequent blogs like BGR. I bet they would welcome and enjoy a Storm. If you don’t like yours, take it back so someone else can enjoy it. Then go find a perfect phone for you. Please feel free to let us know what it is, because I don’t think there is one perfect phone for everyone.

At the end of the day, if the phone you have does what you need it to do, then you’ve got the right phone. The slowness and most of the other bugs in the Storm will be worked out.

By: Bill Brooks

Bill Brooks — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:02:07 +0000

I have never been a cellphone or text-messaging treky. I have only used my cellphone for travel emergencies. I use my laptop at home for personal IMs and emails. Likewise, I use my office computer for business communications.
I never saw the need for a BlackBerry until the “WOW” factor of the Storm impressed me.
My point and inquiry…
What is the difference between the BB Thunder 9500 and the BB Storm 9530? Have early issues been resolved?
I just hope that they send me the right phone on 12/6!
Thanks!!!
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By: Tim Lincecum

Tim Lincecum — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:58:54 +0000

Berry, Why don’t you stick to pitching? Like your fastball, your review leaves much to be desired. Watch out. Now that I have the Cy Young, I’m coming for your big fat contract. LOL

By: JP

JP — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:57:14 +0000

Returned mine today. Others in line to do the same….it’s a dog. First time Bberry tripped over itself!

By: the manzo

the manzo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:25:52 +0000

i love the storm…keyboard/touch screen is hands down better then the iphones, i can’t even believe its being debated

By: Smooth

Smooth — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:04:47 +0000

Totally. I’ve used 3 BlackBerries over the past few years and the Storm just doesn’t live up to my expectations. The Storm is neither here nor there; it isn’t nearly as fast as the Bold or even Curve in normal operations and it isn’t as polished or fun to use as the iPhone. I think it’ll take a couple more iterations before it’s ready for prime time.

By: 1 Bold Opinion

1 Bold Opinion — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:25:15 +0000

How come the only issues being reported is with Verizon version of the Storm?? Is this really a RIM issue???

By: frankie

frankie — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:55:43 +0000

they got more stock, probably by taking Telus’ units – since they’ve now delayed their launch.

By: JUlio

JUlio — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:45:21 +0000

man….you said it well…..very very well said!!!!!!!!

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:40:24 +0000

Spelled “device”

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:38:18 +0000

Blackberry fucked up

By: smittyffcfd

smittyffcfd — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:23:32 +0000

This is the part that gets me. Why so poorly planned, I ordered mine within an hour of the store being opened and sold out and they tell me that I have to wait for it to be shipped by the 6th of December.

By: mikebeau

mikebeau — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:10:59 +0000

i generally hate the storm right now because it has not shown up on my doorstep.

and also because no one can tell me when it is coming.

By: Joseph Mama

Joseph Mama — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:04:03 +0000

I’m actually reading this on my storm now and I don’t understand the general hatred of the web browser. I came from a Curve and this browser is by far easier to read and use. The Storm utilizes both taps and clicks – tap lightly to hide and show navigation, click to zoom once. My biggest complaint is the slowness of locking and unlocking the phone. It seems unreasonably long. Other than that I’ve been jamming along just fine. I’m not a hardcore blackberry user but I can type out stuff pretty fast on this phone.

By: tommy's mom

tommy's mom — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:57:23 +0000

Tommy you are not being nice. Tell them how Tue, Nov 25, 2008 you are.

By: tommy's mom

tommy's mom — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:55:38 +0000

Tommy come home now. Your dad wants to beat you.

By: tory

tory — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:39:55 +0000

I walked into a verizon store this weekend to play with the phone. I was pleasantly suprised that the sales people knew not to bother me while I tried out the one live demo they had in the store. I am a fan of this site and have been keeping up with all the reports. I wanted to play with it myself and form my opinion. I loved the coolness factor. Touch screen, sleek, responsive to touch but trying to navigate through the menus was painful. I tried to send myself an SMS message to see how long it would take me and I was fustrated by the process. Hell this whole comment is being typed on my curve and based on the time it took me to write this, I still had yet to complete a full sentence on the storm.

I would say I am not an Iphone supporter as I see it as more of a musical phone device but I remember when I walked into the Apple store to try out the Iphone when it first came out. I was immediately impressed, to the point where I almost bought one. Learning curve was almost non existant. I was flying through screens and testing functionality. I was hoping for a similar experience with the storm. Sadly I was disaappointed. Iphone won that round – Dammit!!!

By: Tommy

Tommy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:36:27 +0000

I just got my BOLD about 30 minutes ago, it is BEYOND smooth, fast, clean, sleek etc.. etc… etc… WOW, anyone want a storm, ha, i have a extra… JK

By: Pism

Pism — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:34:26 +0000

I ordered my storm online the day it came out, probably around 4pm. It shipped out sunday and arrived today. I’ll post the OS version once I get home tomorrow and open it up.

By: flip flop

flip flop — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:02:11 +0000

I love my storm. At first I wanted to throw it out the window because of typing difficulty alone. Then I calmed down, tweaked the keyboard settings, and hammered out a few quick brown foxes and felt much better. I had to do the same thing when I I got my curve. The tiny keys were unbearable at first. The main thing the blackberry has going for it is that the browser doesn’t crash every other page like the iphone. If rim had just added a pearl ball to this sucker it would be heaven.

By: S. Winner

S. Winner — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:47:19 +0000

Speaking from experience, I just came back from Verizon and returned the Storm…and canceled my contract (still am w/ at&t). I have an 8800 and wanted a touch screen as my next device. I wanted to love this phone but they look it out of the oven a little bit early. Major problems, the keypad is a mess, the clicks get annoying, I can’t see the blue halo on the keypad, hard to see what I type. It lags, voice quality is not the best (the 7230/90 had the best phone reception), and it was heavier than I expected. It is a beautiful looking phone, it for lots of ‘Wows’ from friends but it needs some more work, not to mention the bloody third-trimester abortion of a launch RIM/Verizon pulled off. Anyways, this is my opinion but this phone is average for me, not the superphone I…and others…were expecting.

By: ilikephonesthatwork

ilikephonesthatwork — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:44:17 +0000

@ forte… Care to share your “tweaks”? Thank you in advance!

By: bluehorseshoe

bluehorseshoe — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:39:37 +0000

Got mine yesterday, and so far so good. I’ve been hammering it, and no crashes as of yet. Used Navigator this AM, worked fine. Bluetooth syncing, bluetooth tethering, etc. all good. Running all the IM’s in the background along with Facebook. I’m sure many are pissed off because they have a different software version of the unit was/is defective, but give it time. The OS is a bit slow, and while typing is good, it’s still slow to register compared to other BB devices. As the OS upgrades come, I’m sure they’ll knock out the issues…except for the typing. The screen can only move and register so fast…

By: forte831

forte831 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:39:12 +0000

Ok the storm I’d definitely jot a disaster once I made a couple tweaks this bad boy runs awesome.
The accelerometer runs like butter flippin only when needed.
With apps and development this thing is gonna rock hard.

By: ilikephonesthatwork

ilikephonesthatwork — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:38:59 +0000

Well count me as StormFan. Love my phone. Sure there are quirks, but I have Iphone as well and it has quirks as well. Rim will be quick to release updates I am sure, they have to much riding on this. My iphone has been waiting on a MMS update for ummm over a year! Bash away as usual in here, but I love my storm.

By: jacksplat

jacksplat — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:23:30 +0000

It never continues to amaze me that amount of hate that anti-VZW and pro-apple folks have.

Pronouncing the first iteration of this phone as crap is just short sighted. I don’t doubt it needs some software tweaking…but that can be fixed.

You don’t like the click-screen..okay, I get that, sorta, but part of me thinks that will be cleaned up in software as well.

Bottom line is the first iPhone had issues as well…yes yes…you don’t think they were the same and it had a better foundation and this that. But people suffered through EDGE speeds without copy and paste, exchange support and all the other little things because they liked apple and the phone. But 1 year later…1 year, they came up a with brand new phone.

The stuff on the storm, I don’t think it’ll be one year. I think there will a software revision every few months until it’s humming like a charm.

oh, and for the record, I never buy first gen stuff anyway. That way I don’t have feel all the suffering that I see in the other posts..