I recently acquired a Blackberry Storm from work and was rather excited about having this top-notch piece of electronics to show off with. iPhone was not among the options which is a pity seeing I’ve toyed around with some of my friends’ and it’s awesome. But Blackberry does have the more ‘accomplished manager’ aura which I was happy to settle for instead of the ‘cool/trendy/designer/artyfarty’ world of Apple. A month or so later I’m banging my head against the wall and almost offering my friends to trade my Blackberry for their Nokia 3310.
The software is just slow, very slow. Rebooting my BB is necessary almost every 2 days, which means taking out the battery and waiting 10 minutes for it to startup again. Answering a call is a pain seeing the green ‘answer call’ button on the screen rotates with the screen position thanks to the automatic vertical/panorama screen rotation. The number of missed calls because of this is above 75% for sure. Another loss for the BB Storm is the much criticized lack of WiFi on this ought-to-be hypermodern phone (although the BB Storm 2.0 is said to have given in to consumers complaints). Surfing only happens through the 3G-network (which is luckily rather good thanks to Belgacom/Proximus in Belgium) and thus doesn’t allow for the speed of your own Internet connection.
Coming back to the slow software of the BB Storm, it just isn’t made for fancy stuff. Get your e-mails, answer phone calls (if you can overcome the struggle with the rotating screen) and write text messages with the ‘full-size’ keyboard. But don’t try iPhone stuff, it’s just not made for it. My BB has finally pulled me out of denial; I’m a boring manager.
