On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:58:47 -0500, Stan Horwitz >
fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

>Yup. Two or three of my colleagues ran out and bought a Blackberry
>Storm. After a few weeks, they returned it. A friend of mine bought one
>too. I tried it for about 20 minutes to play with the apps on it. The
>touch screen keyboard is horrible and the user experience is nowhere
>near as easy as with an iPhone 3G. My friend who bought a Storm returned
>it and he now has an iPhone 3G, which he raves about. For me though,
>like I said in a previous message, I won't get an iPhone 3G until
>Verizon is allowed to sell them on its network.

Well, I'm glad to see this, Stan. I researched the Blackberry Storm
before I finally bought the iPhone 3G. The only thing the Storm had
that was tempting me away from the iPhone was the keyboard "feel."
According to my research, the Storm keyboard was better b/c it had a
keyboard feel to it, whereas the iPhone is just flat no-touch qwerty.
I don't much like the keyboard even now - it is soooo hard to avoid
misspellings and my fingers aren't THAT fat - but everything else
works great. It didn't have voice recognition, which I really, really
wanted, but I found a $10 app that works just *perfectly* called Fonix
iSpeak. In fact, it works better than perfectly. It ran through my
contact list and figured out how each contact was pronounced and I
never even had to train it. Had very few mis-spoken contact hits, I
might add. The first time I used iSpeak, it went right to the desired
contact. Awesome. In now-hands-free California, voice recognition is
really helpful.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

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