BlackBerry Storm vs. the Curve - a quickie
Sunday, December 14, 2008 at 8:34PM You will no doubt forgive me for the lack of specificity here. Time is limited right now, so I just want to capture things at a high leve.
Prolog: I have been a Palm/Treo user since the Pilot 1000, dabbling in WinCE/PPC/WinMob briefly over that time. In 2007 I decided for several reasons to try a BlackBerry - first a Pearl and then a Curve.
I was like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting for the Storm to come out. I pre-ordered one at Best Buy. I picked it up on Day One.
It is really quite an impressive device in many ways.
However, at a high level, I have to say that it, like the iPhone, is more of a "look and listen" device than a "do" device. I'll no doubt explain that later, but here's the summary:
Look and Listen
- Screen is breathtaking
- Email is as easy to read/use as a laptop
- Web is very usable on that big, bright screen
- Flip scroll is better than the iPhone, even.
- Media player is much improved.
- Camera is 3mp.
Do
- Overall ease of use - logistics and typing
- Performance and responsiveness
- Battery life
- Accomodation of legacy applications
- Entering data on the touch/click screen is better than just a touch screen, but not as quick/responsive as a real keyboard.
In addition, here in my locale, Verizon's coverage is just not as good as Sprint's. So, back to the Curve and hoping that the next touchscreen BlackBerry will address these issues. I like Look and Listen too, but "Do" is the reason I carry these things. If I weren't comparing this to the Treo and the Curve, I might have been happy to keep it (Verizon's higher price for unlimited service notwithstanding).
More detail when I have time.
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