Today I just happened to read my fortune and found it was only an advertisement.
So it’s been a week or so since I updated my Storm with the latest (approved) firmware (4.7.0.148).
It’s a slight improvement. The phone “feels” faster in some areas but it’s still slow overall. For instance, when rotating the screen there is still and incredible lag. Sometimes 4 to 5 seconds. Sometimes it just gets confused and displays the wrong orientation.
It’s also rebooting on it’s own more often. At least once every two or three days. That’s if I forget to reboot it myself. I’ve got an application on it called QuickPull that allows you to reboot it yourself. It has an option on it to do it at a specified time. I guess I better just set it up to do it once a day.
Overall I’m rethinking this “smart phone” option. The browser on that size screen is marginal at best. Emergency use only for me. The calender and email are OK. I guess if you really needed to get that email right now then it makes sense. The syncing with Google apps is pretty seamless. I blame that on Google though and not RIM.
As a phone it totally sucks. I really can’t emphasize that enough. Almost every call ends up getting dropped. Either that or it sounds like I’m in the bottom of a swimming pool. I’m getting to the point that when the phone rings I cringe.
Can anyone tell me why the cheap Motorola phone we have for the house gets better signal than this Blackberry?
So here is just one reason why I hate my Blackberry Storm. I saw that NBC was offering full episodes for the Storm. Just head to http://m.nbc.com/fullepisodes.shtml. Nice, except that when you finally drill down far enough to actually watch a show you get a 403 (Forbidden).
OK, so maybe this is more of a Verizon thing than a Storm thing, but it’s really hard to differentiate between the two. As far as I’m concerned it should work. If the Blackberry people don’t want me to blame them then get Verizon to fix it.
Nothing new in a while. Sorry.
I’ve been using Google Latitude for a while on my POS Blackberry Storm. I’ll try and write a post on that later.
Anyway, the fine people at Google just announced that you can use Latitude on your blog. So, I added a Google Latitude box to the right. Notice how it doesn’t move? That’s cause I stay put most of the time!
Welcome to bridleman.org. I decided to try WordPress. Why not? Everyone else is using it.
The old site is still available at http://oldsite.bridleman.org. I plan on trying to integrate the pictures here as well but I am really new to WordPress so it may take a while. Until then, you can still get to them at http://photos.bridleman.org.