Captiol Hill Neglected to Read Blackberry Storm Reviews

There were a lot of buzz surrounding the BlackBerry Storm when it was first unveiled. After all, the concept seems destined to be a winner. RIM the maker of the very popular BlackBerry devices wanted to combine a touchscreen with the patented features and look of their Smartphones. However, when the Blackberry Storm reviews doubts began to appear.

This appears to be the case with many of the folks at Capitol Hill. Many of them ditched their old Smartphones to try out RIM's touchscreen BlackBerry. If they have read Blackberry Storm reviews then they might have reconsidered. Unfortunately, it appears that our lawmakers are too busy to read Blackberry Storm reviews or any other cellphone review.

The folks at Capitol Hill who jumped into the Storm bandwagon now want to crucify the touchscreen BlackBerry. They have realized that they mostly used their BlackBerries for heavy email and a touchscreen is not ideal for text entry. They could have known that if they read the Blackberry Storm reviews that point out the difficulty of text entry with the device's touchscreen.

Here's a quote from Rodell Mollineau, a communications staff director, describing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's reaction to his BlackBerry Storm:

Three days later. I literally walk in and he's cursing with four-letter words, and he was slamming it down, saying, ‘I can't get e-mail to work all right.' It just is not for people here who mainly use their BlackBerrys for that.

Well, if they have read Blackberry Storm reviews then they would have realized that the device is not suited for email. However, these people are very busy especially wiht the current economic mess sop I don't expect them to have the time to read Blackberry Storm reviews.

But what do the Blackberry Storm reviews say about doing email and other tasks on RIM's touchscreen Smartphone? Well, part of the problem is the clickable touchscreen which requires more work than other touch sensitive handsets. A user needs to click fully to produce a typed letter because a light touch will merely highlight the keys.

Some Blackberry Storm reviews also say that doing simple navigation tasks is difficult due to cramped commands. This means that users often wind up activating something else in the list even if their finger appears to be squarely on the proper item.

These are just a two of the problems highlighted by Blackberry Storm reviews. You'll know more about the troubles of RIM's touchscreen Smartphone by looking at a few Blackberry Storm reviews.