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Stephen Fry Slams the BlackBerry Storm [Ouch]

Source: Gizmodo

Nov 28, 2008

Summary

We have a soft spot for genius comedian-actor-writer-gadget-juggler Stephen Fry here at the Giz. He speaks things as he sees them, as an end user, with his usual wit. Lately he has been playing with a BlackBerry Storm and, like our review, he thinks that it's no you-know-who killer. In fact, he completely smashes it in his condensed Twitter review:

Been playing with the BB Storm. Shockingly bad. I mean embarrassingly awful. Such a disappointment. Rushed out unfinished. What a pity.

Yes, I blame n'works more than RIM. Problems are terrible lag: inaccurate t'screen, awful, slow and fiddly text input. I SO wanted to like it.

Plus the GPS maps won't work - issue with BIS connections. I see from forums postings this is widespread in the UK. iPhone killer? Ha!

Apparently, his views are so respected among gadget lovers in the Perfidious Albion that BBC's dot.life Rory Cellan-Jones thinks he may crush Vodafone's Storm marketing efforts on his own. Stephen has a different view, but agrees he may have an influence and reiterates his "throw it out the window" revi

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Comments (5)

Philipcalvert,

Nov 30, 2008

Completely agree. VERY poor battery life too, the touch screen is slow to respond and there was no sound in the arpiece when making and receiving calls. Apparantly it's a 'known issue'.

I'm now having problems getting a SIM card to work with it.

Jenniferl,

Nov 30, 2008

I grew up with Stephen Fry he is funny but so serious in his role as comedian and actor. Perfect as an actor more so than a comedian

Aureliusmaximus,

Dec 01, 2008

sorry to hear this about the storm but also glad to hear it before i pulled the trigger on getting one

Thomaspower,

Dec 01, 2008

my nephew 15 says battery lasts half a day useless

Mugzy,

Dec 01, 2008

It looks neat, but I was a bit from reading the reviews in endgadget and gizmodo. I had actually thought that the Storm will be a competition with the iPhone. But from what I read, the biggest innovation does seem to be a nifty screen, the typing assistant and a 3.2 MegaPix camera. Not really a huge reason why I would shift from my current network to get one.
Also any idea what the pricing is?