BlackBerry Storm vs iPhone 3G, Part 2 - Messaging & Keyboard

Noah Kravitz
Posted on Monday, November 24, 2008
by Noah Kravitz, Senior Editor, Consumer Products and Services
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It's the battle of the touchscreen heavyweights: The Apple iPhone 3G takes on the first touchscreen BlackBerry, the Storm. In part two, Noah looks at messaging on both phones, including two very different touchscreen keyboards.

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alfexs
Monday, December 29, 2008DUDE COME ON U KNOW THT THE BLACKBERRYSTORM HAS A BETTER QWERTY KEYBOARD!!! IPHONE IS A GOOD PHONE BUT I THINK THT THE BLACKBERRYSTORM IS MORE INTERESTING
Larry Anderson
Sunday, December 14, 2008Noah, I dont know if you found this out already about the Storm. I know this revieis about a month old. When looking at your video, I saw you trying to move the cursor on the Storm to make corrections to the text. You where trying to click in just the rightspot to make the corrections. Did you know that all you need to do to move the cursor around is hover your finger ANYWHERE in the text box and you will see the cursor change. Once it changes you can slide your finger to where you need. A bit easier than trying to hit it on the first shot with a click.
bblover253
Thursday, November 27, 2008you probably had so many problems with you personal iphone because it ran on tmobile... that network SUCKS!!!!
debo7debo
Wednesday, November 26, 2008hey wats up? when do you think they will release the updates for the storm? i tried it in the store initially and didnt like it but when i went back another day it seemed as though they updated it and worked much better which is not perfect but barable. Its pretty cool to me. When do you think they will release the updates? and when do you think they will have it available? like say black friday?
lake
Tuesday, November 25, 2008ok so I'm an iPhone user and I also have a blackberry curve for work. What I have to say is the magnifying glass on my iPhone is great but on my curve if I make a mistake while writing an email it doesn't matter because I have spell check turned on. Does the storm not have this feature?
mariob
Tuesday, November 25, 2008OK i am in no way a fan boy at all but i am a Little disappointed in the phone dog for not downing his homework on the device there where a lot of things that he just didn't no how to do one most of all was the going back to fix text that was already type all you have to do is just touch the screen and hold your finger in place and the indicator will turn clear and you can scroll all threw the text very easy and i think better then the iphone but there are bugs it is a new device with a lot of potential i just would of thought you would of no a Little more about the device be for doing a review
sanchoman4
1/8/2009 11:05:56 PMi completely understand! for me i am a very fast texter and if i cant jus click a couple of letters without having lag then its perfect but it seems the Blackberry Storm really is lagging some good potential
scarfacex7
1/8/2009 8:27:37 PMthe one thing that you can do to edit documents is to hold your finger (don't click) on a letter near the one that you want to fix then a cursor like thing appears and then you can move it around to the letter of your choice. you can see it so it's not like under your finger
dobiggy
1/6/2009 10:09:35 PMthats what i thought, but it wont let me keep typing, i have to send it and write a new one if i want a long message...
tyleraddison17
1/6/2009 9:21:26 PMthe iphone's keybord sucks.....i think
mckeelie
1/6/2009 12:08:24 PMmy mom has one and I was going to get one to but when I was trying to text on hers I had the sam problem the clicking screen was hard to work with so I am going to get an old blackbeery
seanrobinsonjr
1/6/2009 1:16:30 AMcould you do a G1 vs Blackberry Storm review?
SnoopNiggaDogg
1/6/2009 12:14:52 AMha, he says he doesn't want to jump through hoops but the i-phone is jail broken. i almost bricked my i-phone within a couple days of jail break.
SnoopNiggaDogg
1/6/2009 12:12:25 AMlol
jamonathin
1/5/2009 11:37:27 PMFold a small piece of paper and stick it behind the back cover to make your Storm's 'click screen' less clicky.
XavLive
1/5/2009 1:14:14 PMI tested this phone out at the mall and the iphone. I hate that the iphone has not full qwerty widescreen i did find when it cam to the bb storm that typeing was fairly easy if you were going at a mid steady paste....it just takes some time to get use to.... But the damn thing lags way to much! ima stick to qwerty psp typeing!
SnOwBoArDeR239
1/4/2009 11:06:55 PMdude your an idiot cmon
Juliojolon1
1/3/2009 7:41:54 PMsrry... But i love my mom deeply... And i don't want to take any chances. Sorry. If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours
Neatod
1/3/2009 2:48:40 PMsrry... But i love my mom deeply... And i don't want to take any chances. Sorry. If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours
nader85021
1/3/2009 2:30:54 PMyou are prolly right. its confusing, since he confused bold and storm throughout the review for the storm, so i wasnt sure.
pandaprincess11
1/3/2009 1:56:09 PMthis helped alot! thanx i subscribed u!
PnutButterJellyTime
1/3/2009 1:33:34 PMNo, I think he meant what he said because before he mentioned that statement he was saying that he prefers physical keyboards over the touch keyboards.
nader85021
1/2/2009 9:02:07 PMlol my choice between blackberry storm and iphone is the blackberry BOLD! lol i am pretty sure he meant storm, or maybe hates both?!
ortizcky
1/2/2009 5:14:50 PMwell it's like the first version of the iphone most of the people was complaining because it was so slow and they were having problems with the firmware too.. just wait till the next version of the blackberry storm comes out or the next firmware just be patience that's why i haven't bought it jet but still both phone r good....
datdude742
1/2/2009 11:22:46 AMthe only reason I got the Storm instead of the iPhone is because I'm spending so much money on a phone and I want to be able send and receive multimedia messages.
donkthevideo
1/1/2009 7:36:11 PMo and when you want to edit on the blackberry storm, like he was saying you have to guess where you want to put in your insertation point, you hold it down, and the little cursor will go like hollow and then you can move around ur cursor
donkthevideo
1/1/2009 7:29:01 PMsame here holla06! i am used to being able to slide my fingers over the buttons, but you cant do that when you have a touch screen. i have the pantech matrix, and im quite fast on the qwerty keyboard, but wen i try to type on my friends instinct, im really slow cause i have to pick my fingers up lol
littleman06
1/1/2009 7:28:29 PMDude you're an idiot. Learn how to use the phone.
holla06
1/1/2009 4:42:32 PMi can not type on a touch screen for nothing LOL. it takes me no time to text on a button qwerty but a touchscreen qwerty...omg it takes like 30sec to a minute lol. thats just me tho.
cmikhow
12/31/2008 7:21:58 PMOn Blackberry? You send one text and if it exceeds it'll send multiples on it's own.
on1sony
12/31/2008 2:22:05 AMi'm surprised he didn't show the quality in you tube streaming the SAME video!!! the iphone has much higher quality youtube streams!

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