You can also switch to a virtual cellphone-style keypad that requires you to hit each key multiple times.įrom left, BlackBerry Storm, Google G1, and iPhone 3G
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This keyboard design relies on software to guess which letter you meant to press. When you hold the Storm vertically, you get a mashed-up keyboard, like the one on the narrower BlackBerry Pearl, which has multiple letters on each key.
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It presents you with a full virtual keyboard only when you are holding it horizontally. The Storm also has a keyboard oddity that I found annoying, and that may put off others. I found that I could type quite well on the Storm after awhile, but that a greater adjustment, and more practice, were required than with a physical keyboard. In my opinion, using the Storm’s keyboard is much more like using the iPhone’s keyboard than a traditional BlackBerry’s. But neither I, nor any of the several BlackBerry addicts I asked to try it out, considered typing on the Storm’s keyboard to be very similar to using the keyboard of a traditional full-sized BlackBerry. The feature does provide a more reassuring confirmation that a key has been struck or an icon has been clicked than the mere visual feedback one receives from the iPhone. This push-down screen also replaces the side-mounted scroll wheel or track ball on other BlackBerrys for activating menu choices and icons.īut, in my tests, this physical feedback feature, which RIM calls SurePress, didn’t magically turn the Storm’s touch interface and virtual keyboard into their physical counterparts. The idea behind this feature is to make typing on glass feel much more like typing on a real keyboard, and thus to make the virtual keyboard, and the touch interface, more acceptable to people used to physical keyboards and buttons. The entire glass display is one large button, mounted on a mechanical substructure that allows it to be depressed when pressure is applied. That’s because you are, in fact, pressing a real button. When you strike a key or icon on the Storm’s screen, you feel a physical sensation, as if you were pressing down on a real key or button.
However, the biggest innovation in the Storm is a clever feature RIM hopes will give it a big advantage over the iPhone. BlackBerry Storm’s touch screen switches from portrait to landscape mode when turned, and aims to make typing on glass feel more like typing on a real keyboard.
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