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I remember trying out a Storm. Webpage would render incredibly slowly because Blackberry weren't capable of putting a wifi chip in the handset (it was limited

I remember trying out a Storm. Webpage would render incredibly slowly because Blackberry weren't capable of putting a wifi chip in the handset (it was limited to edge if I recall). The whole UI was sluggish. Cherry on top? No apps. There was a way to write apps but it was pretty much a unique SDK per phone model. No app store of course. It hit the market a few months after Apple revealed the iPhone 3G and the App Store.

rchaud 6y ago
I remember the no Wi-fi. It was shocking, but made perfect sense from BB's perspective. These were work devices after all, and your precious data was expected to be routed through an encrypted BES server that would also compress packet contents to save bandwidth. But it did have apps. Just not many. I remember downloading Pandora, Shazam and Whatsapp from the Blackberry App store. Android and iOS stores obviously dwarfed it in terms of quantity though.
FooHentai 6y ago
When the Storm came out, the place I was working had placed pre-orders for the executive team. First day, they're all configured and sent out to much fanfare. Second day, many of them came back to IT, some airborne. After a month they were pretty much all returned in favor of something that actually worked, and we never placed any further orders. Remember their 'haptic' touchscreen tech, SurePress? Click Clack. Felt like a child's toy. Quite the departure from genuinely great stuff like the trackball/pearl.