The kind people from Maxis invited a group of enthusiasts consisting of people from the media to experience the BlackBerry Storm, the world’s first “clickable†touch-screen which enables efficient application navigation. It comes with a 3.2 inch wide screen, the largest high resolution display ever of a BlackBerry device, enabling enhanced current BlackBerry applications such as browsing and multimedia and the BlackBerry Storm offers more convenient access to download a range of practical and entertaining applications via the new BlackBerry Application Centre.
The Event
The attendees gathered as the representatives did a detailed presentation on Blackberry.
After the presentation, all of us were given a unit (not to be taken home) of the Blackberry Storm to try out while we have dinner and mingle around, Q&A with the people handling BlackBerry in Malaysia. 🙂
My Thoughts
It took me quite a while to get used to it, I’m pretty much a BUTTON person than touch-screen even though I have no problems with it.
The interesting thing about the Storm was that it’s CLICKABLE, which I actually like very much. The screen senses your selection, and after that it takes a CLICK to activate the selected button.
Here the Storm loads goldfries.com – apparently I can’t get it to show the site in actual 1:1 pixel on screen. I have no idea why, neither did the assistant for the product know why was it such. That’s something I hope to discover, even my Nokia N81 8GB could show it as 1:1 and it does that right away!
Anyway, I’ll spare my thoughts about this device until I get to spend more time with it. The initial impression was that it’s a great device, for work and play. Now it’s just a matter of getting people to use it. Seems like it’ll be great for mobile blogging, way better than using stupid buttons just to move cursor around.
Haha! It’s funny to see that almost every 1 busy taking pictures of the speaker! Including you, goldfries!
But can people really blog on such a small device? I think a netbook would have been a better blogging tool though…
just my 2 cents
🙂 clearly the photo was to show what’s going there, it’s on ultra-wide laaaa 😛 (ok well i did took a few pic of him)
yes, can blog. i could blog through my Nokia N81 8GB and from what i tested, i think the BB would be even better. Of course the Netbook would be better but from what I’ve used, a full-sized notebook is even better than Netbook. 😛
again it’s down to size and convenience. small devices are easier to carry around but in many ways harder to use.
The Storm possibly doesn’t have a browser which supports 1:1 ratio? 😛