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hey guys john r Ettinger here some comparisons for you of the blackberry storm2 versus its older brother the blackberry storm 1 so before we get deep into the hardware let's talk about some of the more aesthetic changes that you're going to notice between the two devices well first the storm 2 has its lock and power button on the upper left-hand corner whereas a storm 1 had just a lock button power was done through the end sign the storm 1 actually the storm 2 in particular it uses a new iconography it actually says 3G in the upper right hand corner with a little blackberry icon that you know you're connected to BlackBerry's fantastic push email system the storm 1 uses the more traditional one times evie to let you know you're connected to Verizon Wireless as a video network not a big change definitely something worth noting both devices here are running the newest versions other operating systems 5.0 so this should least be as fair comparison as possible so I think that anytime you talk about the storm and the storm 2 you have to really lead in with the keyboards so let's start with the keyboard on the storm 1 was the first phone to introduce technology called sure press it's a capacitive touchscreen so running similar to what's found on the iPhone the t-mobile g1 but underneath that was a sensor it actually created a clicking feel so anytime that you've pushed it on the screen you're actually registering a click and felt like a click under your finger with the storm 1 there was only one sensor right in the middle so anytime that you clicked off the middle so the bottom left or the bottom right I almost felt like you were on a seesaw and if you were trying to type and type letters that word right in the middle definitely led to a lot of increase in accuracy blackberry is known for its fantastic mobile email services so most people who are using a blackberry email and text communication is important to them especially having an accurate keyboard was one of the things that I think sunk the initial storm another thing to mention is that since the whole screen actually recessed anywhere you want there was ton of dust that was getting caught all along the bridge of the screen so eventually you have to pick it out with a paperclip or take it back to the store have the screen pulled off because it would just stop working now the storm 2 also uses sure press technology however they use a different implementation of it they use something that's called PCO technology which is from tech mumbo jumbo I'm not going to bore it with but just know that they now have four sensors underneath the capacitive touchscreen one in each corner making for a much much improved accuracy so hitting things in the corners is now much more accurate than it was hello does a little bit feel a little bit harder to press you have to press a little bit more but you get a very satisfying click and I think that the improvements is found right when you're using the keyboard so speaking of the keyboard let me show you how that works on the storm to be prepared to the storm one I think that again this is where the storm 2 really shines so I'm gonna open up a new message here ok so I've got a new message open and I'm greeted here with a shirt tag keyboard similar to what's found on the blackberry pearl series and the pearl flip I'm actually a big fan this your press I used a pearl for years and I really liked it essentially what it is is two words port a letter now if you turn this you get a full landscape keyboard as well so let's do a keyboard demonstration on both and I should mention that I'm not a blackberry storm user so I've only gotten to use these keyboards for the past few days but I will demonstrate their accuracy for you and then compare that accuracy to how well things go on the storm one for a comparison so how much better typing is on the storm 2 so we'll type a simple message this is a test so I got egos is our rear so me it wasn't head accurate but it was quick try that one more time so this is a test I think it just took a little while to get used to but definitely became a bit more accurate as I used it let's rotate it over to landscape and let's try the same thing and see how this works now one of the knocks that I had on there storms keyboard was as you put your finger up you got that blue glow it's hard to tell which letter that blue glow was coming from well it's not so difficult with the storm - it seems to actually be relatively clear let's try that again and I'll go as fast as I can this is a test perfectly accurate much much easier to use much easier to navigate and you don't wait as long for the keys to pop back up so if that was holding you off from buying a storm - don't let the keyboard be a deterrent it's actually very good and really easy to use this time around so seeing how good the keyboard is on the storm - makes me remember how bad the keyboard was on the storm 1 let's go ahead and take a look at that you can see how far things have come and this is even with the newest form or update that supposedly increases accuracy I'm going to go into messages once again and we will create a new one okay so here we go our messages and you've got that same sure type keyboard that we saw on the storm - and let's see how I create this one is so this is a test type tat no problem and definitely feel a much more squish and you have to wait a little bit longer for the keys to pop back up but not much to a problem in portrait let's try it in landscape and we'll do the same thing I'll go as fast as I can so not entirely accurate screwed up on one word but it can it can be fixed I suppose keyboard has been improved with a software update 5.0 on the storm one but it still worlds better on the storm 2 and speaking of text one of the things now that you've got on the storm 2 it's also they move over to the storm one is cut copy and paste although it's sometimes a little bit of a sloppy implementation so let me zoom in and show you how cut copy and paste works we'll use that same message that I just typed it I'm going to demonstrate this right now of course on the storm 1 so while the both devices to necessarily have multi-touch to way think of it multi-touch like pinched and zoom like you can do on on an iPhone does support multi-touch in a way that you can actually use two fingers on the device so to cut copy and paste you take those two fingers that we're talking about tap on the screen and you get those two little notifications that let you move anywhere you want if you have a couple lines it can be a little bit squirrely seems to be working well right now by the text that you want hit cut and do the same thing when you want to paste it let's take a look at that same functionality on the storm to go ahead and open up an email message so here's a soliciting email to go ahead and say I want to copy some of this text take my two fingers it doesn't always function the way you'd like it to there we go and I can start selecting text as you see as I move around it follows with me and it tends to jump around a bit but you can get it to these accurate as you'd like with just a little bit of time and patience and go ahead and just hit copy and you are all done so one of the big complaints that people had with the initial storm was that the screen rotation speed was quite slow and I had that too when I had the first storm that since been fixed with the software updates let's compare how fast screen rotation now works on both devices so let's start with the storm - quick quick it's actually recognizing them when the storm one first came out the very first built-in software it would hardly ever recognize a screen rotation so that is pretty quick on the storm - let's see how quick it is on the storm one no not bad at all and definitely is accurate so let's try and put those two heads ahead and we can see and again in some cases even the storm one it was a little bit faster except for there so overall if you're deciding which one to get storm two just does everything storm one did except a little bit better just a little bit better typing is a little bit better speeds a little bit better internet browsing is just a little bit better things are just a little bit improved and speaking of internet browsing the last thing I want to show you is the internet browser how this works and speed wise on each so I've got three G bars on the same I've got four three G bars on the storm one I've got three on the storm two let's load up a web page and see how it looks well load up same web page pull the load up youtube.com slash John four Lakers and we'll see how fast they render over exactly the same 3G network the storm - by the way it does have Wi-Fi though it's turned off for this test so they're both off and the browser is just about the same on both devices you do your zooming with the zoom in and zoom out buttons and you can pan relatively quickly although you notice the increased processor speed for panning on the storm - and it looks like the storm - is much faster already loaded on the images and now it's already done and complete and you can just double tap to zoom in if you'd like and double tap to zoom in if you'd like browser wise you're not looking anything major that changes what you had with the storm one so guys hope you enjoyed for exclusive content check me out on Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and to learn more about TechnoBuffalo check out TechnoBuffalo com see you the next video buh-bye