BlackBerry Storm 9530
My screen broke
After just one day of use the click screen on my Storm stopped responding. I can select items on the screen but I cannot activate them. When I push on the screen nothing happens.
I took it back but was told that the first run of phone had alot of issues and many had to be pulled from distribution so the stores got only a small fraction of the phones they should have. I cannot get a replacement until dec.20th at the earliest. That is bunk!!!
I took it back but was told that the first run of phone had alot of issues and many had to be pulled from distribution so the stores got only a small fraction of the phones they should have. I cannot get a replacement until dec.20th at the earliest. That is bunk!!!
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This is the first case I have heard of this but it is something that worries me as well.
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i havent heard this either, wonder if it could have been user caused, dropping or what not. if its a defect then i feel for you and i hope mine doesnt do that.
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because its not a real touch screen phone.....you're still physically pushing buttons to launch applications......really intuitive!
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still arguing what is real and not real? Yes, the whole screen acts like a button when pushed, but saying it's not a real touch screen phone is misleading
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In some ways it is not a true touch screen. It is merely and adaption of their rollerball function. Your finger serves the same purpose as the roller ball by scrolling around the screen and you still have to mechanically depress the button (just as you did the ball) to select something.
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PlayboyPenguin said:
In some ways it is not a true touch screen. It is merely and adaption of their rollerball function. Your finger serves the same purpose as the roller ball by scrolling around the screen and you still have to mechanically depress the button (just as you did the ball) to select something.
In all ways its a touch screen. BB calls it a touch screen, everyone calls it a touch screen. Integrated under the touch screen is a button activated by pressing on the touch screen. You should know all this. You have claimed to have had one and returned it.
Your finger does serve the same purpose as the roller ball which serves the same purpose as the wheel before it, but that doesn't allow you and ...
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Sorry, but you are completely wrong. You have no understanding of how this device works.
The screen is actually two separate parts. The actual screen and a transparent tactile sensitive cover...the full screen button if you will. The cover receives the input and relays that information to the screen in the same manner the tracker ball relayed information to the screen in previous incarnations of the Blackberry. Like I said before it is easiest to understand if you think of it like the old track pads. Just imagine a see-thru track pad the exact size of the screen which is mounted directly over the screen.
Now, you have to realize that all touch screens receive their information in this same way...via a piece of glass or plastic over top...
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The screen is actually two separate parts. The actual screen and a transparent tactile sensitive cover...the full screen button if you will. The cover receives the input and relays that information to the screen in the same manner the tracker ball relayed information to the screen in previous incarnations of the Blackberry. Like I said before it is easiest to understand if you think of it like the old track pads. Just imagine a see-thru track pad the exact size of the screen which is mounted directly over the screen.
Now, you have to realize that all touch screens receive their information in this same way...via a piece of glass or plastic over top...
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I guess you learn something new every day, but you will probably have to get used to the world knowing it as a touch screen phone.
Amazing technology, mine is supposed to ship by black Friday. I'll write a review on it as soon as I get up to speed with the device.
Anything will be better than the Palm 700p I have. Palm threw little support towards that phone (1 major update a year after its release)
Amazing technology, mine is supposed to ship by black Friday. I'll write a review on it as soon as I get up to speed with the device.
Anything will be better than the Palm 700p I have. Palm threw little support towards that phone (1 major update a year after its release)
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I used to have a Treo and I loved it...but what did I know. I had no idea at the time how far smart phones would come. I think the Storm will be an awesome device if they can get the firmware sorted out. I kind of like the click screen. It is a bit limiting as far as typing goes but I spend a lot of my time browsing the web and the click screen is superb for that feature.
I think that people will start realizing the difference between touch screens and sure press screens once this device is tweeked and really takes off.
The only other thing I hope for on this phone is for them to get a good version of opera mini on it for web browsing. The blackberry browser is lacking.
I think that people will start realizing the difference between touch screens and sure press screens once this device is tweeked and really takes off.
The only other thing I hope for on this phone is for them to get a good version of opera mini on it for web browsing. The blackberry browser is lacking.
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Are you not required to 'touch' the screen for most functions? Isn't a touchscreen device simply one that let's you interact by touching the screen? So what if you have to push the screen as well...you're still touching it!
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This topic has been beat to death. Not by the people pointing out the mechanical differences between the storm and other true touch screens, but instead by the people that for some reason keep refusing to (or are incapable of) understand the differences.
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I've been laughing as I read some of these touchscreen debates. I think it's hilarious that people really care that much to go on and on about it! 🤣
As for me, it seems like a touchscreen to me, so I guess until a better name for it 'sticks', I personally will be calling it a touchscreen...what else am I suppose to call it?
As for me, it seems like a touchscreen to me, so I guess until a better name for it 'sticks', I personally will be calling it a touchscreen...what else am I suppose to call it?
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