PIM functions
BlackBerry is considered to be top-notch in these, including the contact list, the calendar and of course messaging. Our contacts can of course be synchronized, but the software can copy them easily from the SIM card as well, and in case we add a new contact we will face a never before seen amount of extra details that can be attached to contacts. We can scroll the contact list, and if we’d like to search we get a SureType keyboard, which filters results lightning fast. Opening a contact we can see when and for how long have we been chatting with the person.
The essence of Storm is messaging. SMS/MMS and email have dedicated menus, as RIM emphasizes mailing much more than any other company. We have previously seen what can the system do and the handset is perfectly adapted to this. In case of SMS/MMS messages we can see them in a chat-like view all our conversations with the selected contact, sorted by date. The sent messages are also displayed here.
Text entry is the most important part. It’s a daring move to put a touchscreen on a model designed for messaging, but they gave it a shot. As the phone has a gyroscope the whole menu is rotated as we tilt the phone. The same thing is true for text entry as well. When in the portrait view we have two options: besides the normal phone keypad we have SureType too, which assigns two letters to a virtual key and the prediction system guesses what we would like to write, but this is good only if we want to type in a supported language. If we rotate the picture we get a full QWERTY keyboard and here the special touchscreen has its part again. Some say that this is not very good in this case, but I think it’s great, you can feel exactly when you have pressed the screen, there is a pressure point, I could type surprisingly fast, but unfortunately we still have the old problem that the virtual keys are sometimes too small for a larger hand, we might mistype. The software even displays a small blue halo around the selected key when we touch it, but this is still not enough.
I cannot say anything negative about the calendar, it just knows everything in all kinds of views, with tons of information and of course it’s compatible with Outlook. The calculator is simple, the voice recorder has no length limitation and the phone can display Office documents without a problem, but by default we cannot edit them. The alarm clock is quite simple, it can store only a single alarm time. Since this is a smartphone we can install additional programs, but these usually have to be bought. RIM has been using a model similar to Apple’s for a long time, we can only install those applications that have been checked by the Canadian company.
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