Blackberry Storm - Page 2

B-Line · #11 10-07-2008, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by JCL

LOL, exactly what I was going to post before I read down to your response. Quit slamming the engineers B-Line

Yeah

well

so what

Just further proves that engineers have no cajones and refuse to stand up to the marketing department.
Don't you engineers know why we give you sooo many tools on your swiss army contraption..

One or two of those tools is a knife... Go slash the tires of some marketing guys and show them whose boss.

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MrLabGuy · #12 10-07-2008, 05:51 PM

I like the keyboard in landscape mode. The iPhone only allows the larger keyboard for internet but not texting, email or notes. The keys are way too small in the upright position.

rayxi · #13 10-07-2008, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by B-Line

Yeah

well

so what

Just further proves that engineers have no cajones and refuse to stand up to the marketing department.
Don't you engineers know why we give you sooo many tools on your swiss army contraption..

One or two of those tools is a knife... Go slash the tires of some marketing guys and show them whose boss.

Budget! In many companies if you don't get buy-in from marketing you don't get a budget. Fact of life.

B-Line · #14 10-07-2008, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rayxi

Budget! In many companies if you don't get buy-in from marketing you don't get a budget. Fact of life.

Well that's because if we let the engineers run the place, everything would look like a PC.. Marketing people know that guys like us love our MAC's.. LOL.

noncom23 · #15 10-07-2008, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Meiac09

The whole "no keyboard" thing---
I can't type on a real qwerty keyboard to save my life on a phone, the keys are just too small.
The iPhone, I can't do it as easily without thinking about it... which doesn't work when texting when you aren't supposed to be (in class, driving...)
my old pearl I liked, but like the iPhone, it won't let you cuss in a text. I can't tell you many people think im "ducking" insane

I just need a phone with BIGGERletters so I can see it...

cmyX6go · #16 10-07-2008, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by noncom23

I just need a phone with BIGGERletters so I can see it...

Don't feel bad Mikey. My arms aren't long enough to see the fookin keys either

Thunder22 · #17 10-07-2008, 09:06 PM

They're making another version that has a qwerty keyboard.

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Originally Posted by B-Line

Ok,

So let me get this straight, RIM (Blackberry) in an effort to win Apple Iphone type customers, takes the one feature that most everyone I have spoken to hates about their iphone (lack of a qwerty keyboard) and copies it.

See this is why we live in the world we live in. Engineering departments just don't get it. Don't give us the same thing we already have and repackage it with lesser branding. If you want to win our business, figure out what it is that the customer base is not happy and improve it, rather than replicate it.

And while there may be a small percentage of people that like having an Iphone without a keypad, based on my conversations of Iphone owners and potential iPhone owners, they are the minority not the majority.

The best of both worlds is a PDA that looks like an Iphone, browses like an Iphone, has apps and integration like an Iphone, syncs with a MAC like an iPhone.. But has a decent keyboard and better functions like SEARCH, COMBINED EMAIL, CUT AND PASTE, etc.

B-Line · #18 10-07-2008, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by gresch

They're making another version that has a qwerty keyboard.

I heard that also...

But shhh (don't let the engineers know.. I'm having too much fun getting them razzed up.)

Kewl X5 · #19 10-08-2008, 04:04 AM

Well, later today, we'll get more info re: VZW Blackberry Storm and apparently, the touch screen is tactile which is different from the iPhone....whether that improves on the virtual touchscreen keyboard idea remains to be seen. I can type really fast text messages and email with a traditional keyboard on Treos, Blackberries, and even on the Centro.

E61Silver · #20 10-08-2008, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by B-Line

Ok,

So let me get this straight, RIM (Blackberry) in an effort to win Apple Iphone type customers, takes the one feature that most everyone I have spoken to hates about their iphone (lack of a qwerty keyboard) and copies it.

See this is why we live in the world we live in. Engineering departments just don't get it. Don't give us the same thing we already have and repackage it with lesser branding. If you want to win our business, figure out what it is that the customer base is not happy and improve it, rather than replicate it.

And while there may be a small percentage of people that like having an Iphone without a keypad, based on my conversations of Iphone owners and potential iPhone owners, they are the minority not the majority.

The best of both worlds is a PDA that looks like an Iphone, browses like an Iphone, has apps and integration like an Iphone, syncs with a MAC like an iPhone.. But has a decent keyboard and better functions like SEARCH, COMBINED EMAIL, CUT AND PASTE, etc.

The dedicate keys are much beter than tough screen.

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