basically, the phone is full of win. its the first touchscreen blackberry. the 4 buttons on the bottom are real buttons, rest of the phone is all touchscreen, and you also get a STFU and lock buttons on top of the phone.
calling
its just like any other cell phone, sound quality is good like it is on all the new phones. to call you click the call button and it brings up the phone keyboard on the touchscreen
texting
this phone, along with pretty much every other phone in the past few years has been designed with a heavy texter in mind. it has a full qwerty keyboard that renders multitap completely obsolete the first time you use it. when the phone is held horizontally you get the full keyboard, when you hold it vertical, you get a 2 letters per button multitap like the old blackberrys with button keyboards. why anyone would do taht over a qwerty keyboard i dont know. accelerometer is quick and precise, and if you dont know, its the thing that senses which way your holding the phone and rotates the screen
for other blackberrys, and maybe other phones, but blackberrys for sure, you can pin text. basically instead of sending a text to their number, you are sending it their pin. when you know each others pins, you can use your phones as an instant messenger and you can send files and stuff. i thought this was pretty cool. then you can send emails and shit too.
interwebz
you get full real internet on this phone, none of that retarded phone version of internet. you can store bookmarks and stuff, you scroll by dragging your finger on the touchscreen, and you can either be in regualr mode where you scroll by dragging, or you can go into a cursor mode where you can click on stuff. alternatively, if your in regular mode, you can click on whatever it is you are clicking on and it will zoom in a few times to where it can clearly see what your clicking on and it will register it as a regular mouse click and will go there. but cursor mode is useful for stuff like going to the last page of a multipage thread because with my big thumbs, clicking on the little number is clumsy. internet is fast. obviously not real computer fast, but very fast for a phone. compared to the older crackberrys, storm is way faster
quality
its a sharp looking phone, theres no denying that. buttons feel solid and clicking feels positive like a good clicker torque wrench. the click down screen feels solid as well, it doesnt feel like pushing down onto a sponge, the whole screen clicks down, it doesnt bend down where you are pushing. only thing i dont like is the screen moves around a little bit, but i assume thats for thermal expansion.
music
this is also an mp3 player and it has a regular headphone jack on it, and it comes with headphones
camera
its a 3.2 megapixel with zoom. picture quality is obviously not great, its a phone camera afterall, but its good. probably on par with a few years back PNSs, when they had 3-4 megapixel PNSs
it also has a video camera, but i havent messed with that yet
other stuff
this phone is just like most other handhelds, its a small mobile computer. pretty much everything you use on a daily basis on your computer you have on the phone or you can get for this phone. this is better way of putting it instead of listing all the shit it can do and forgetting half of it
here are the official blackberry specs
http://www.blackberry.com/blackberrysto ... ions.shtml
overall
i love the phone. plain and simple. its awesome.
price
wait for your contract to expire and get one, it will be around 200 dollars with a 2 year plan. or ditch your company and switch to verizon. IIRC they retail for 600 dollars if you feel like buying one.
I use my phone in any weather conditions and it's never a problem.
