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hey guys John renter here and welcome to round one of a head-to-head comparison there's arguably the two hottest smartphones out right now AT&T iPhone 3GS and Verizon Wireless is blackberry storm2 this round is gonna cover screen it's gonna cover scrolling it's gonna cover browser it's gonna cover cut copy and paste and it's gonna cover keyboard let's go ahead and get started with the screens the screen on the iPhone 3GS is a capacitive screen it doesn't have any sort of haptic feedback and the screen doesn't do anything fancy other than just accept the input from your fingers so what it does have is multi-touch capabilities meaning you can pinch and zoom with two fingers I'm sure you've seen with photos and pictures when you put your finger on it the screen doesn't move at all it feels static when you click through on the other hand the blackberry storm2 has a sure press screen it actually has four sensors in each corner and as you click you actually feel the screen go ahead and click through it also has a capacitive screen but it does not have multi-touch so all your zooming is going to be done either through a series of taps or hitting proper zoom and zoom out buttons now the shirt press is a very interesting implementation I think that it was done perhaps a little bit poorly and hastily on the storm one but on the storm 2 it's a fantastic implementation you did the impression of actually feeling like you're hitting a button and you'll see how that comes into play when we discussed the keyboard so I think that if you have to discuss sort of head to head and put these next to each other it's gonna come down to what you prefer whether you want the multi-touch capabilities of the iPhone or whether you like the clicky pseudo button feel of the blackberry storm2 it's gonna come down to personal preference and before I get any further with this hat debt comparison let me preface this was saying that I am an iPhone user I've used an iPhone since the first one came out but I definitely see the merits of DeStorm - so I'm going to try and this is impartial a comparison as possible so next let's cover scrolling scrolling on the storm one was not necessarily the smoothest process didn't have the most advanced physics engine so you flick your finger to scroll through it wouldn't keep going it would stop at a finite amount so let's see if that has been fixed on the storm to go into contact is probably the best way to do that right here and as you see now when you scroll it is quite smooth and keeps moving depending on how quickly you scroll very smooth and very easy to select and as you put your finger over something you can select it and then you push in to actually open it up take a look at the same contact screen on the iPhone 3GS it is also sort of very smooth affair it's different looking menu system but both go very quickly and nice and easy this one's got to be a drop between the two it's going to depend again on what you prefer so next let's check out browser and a lot of people are going to want to use these obviously for their browsers the storm 2 is equipped with Wi-Fi as is the iPhone 3GS both our 3G devices the iPhone riding on AT&T it's a HSDPA network and the storm tubes running on Verizon's EVDO Rev a 3G network so let's test the browser speeds of both of these so the first round of tests is going to be conducted over Wi-Fi so we're gonna see the speed over a pretty strong Wi-Fi network we're gonna load my YouTube page youtube.com slash John poor Lakers this has been loaded on both devices before so to simulate visiting a page that you go to on a regular basis let's go ahead and try and hit go at the same time on both of these which is harder than it looks ok and both of them are off it's like the iphone 3gs loaded a little bit quicker but the storm - storm back so to speak I think both are the iPhone is just about it is done now and the storm is just finishing up so while the storm is still finishing let's talk about navigation and how the iPhone handles browsing so you can scroll through with one finger and you get a very smooth scrolling as you go through you don't get that checkerboard pattern with the page loading it's very quick zooming is accomplished via one of two ways either you can double tap it'll zoom in on particular area you can double tap to zoom out or you can use the multi-touch capabilities and take two fingers and zoom in anywhere you like both don't support flash and as of right now neither have browsers that are going to support flash so you can see it's relatively smooth let's say elegant experience on the Mobile Safari on the iPhone 3GS moving over to the storm - if I scroll along also I don't get that checkerboard pattern it's got a very quick load speed and the processor seems to be handling things nicely if I want to zoom in I can do it one of two ways I can also double tap and the screen flash from zoomed in I do not have to actually click the screen in it just a quick double tap and I can double tap again to zoom in a little bit more now zooming is also done via these two magnifying glasses either in or out and you just sort of hit it and you zoom in or out you don't have any multi-touch capabilities on the browser you can move it around but you're not going to be able to sort of pinch and zoom unfortunately I do wish that these storm 2 hadn't touched capabilities I think that's one area where the iPhone really shines I think that this round definite has to go to the iPhone all the storm 2 has a very capable browser which does seem to be world's better than what was found on the first storm so browsing is about most importance too I think the iPhone is definitely going to be a better way to go let's go ahead and exit Havanese and let's continue with cut copy and paste it was a big sticking point the first iPhone that it didn't have to cut copy and paste blackberry is sort of always had it but there's a new implementation that's in place with the storm - let me show you how both this works we're going to open up notes application on the iPhone I'll go ahead and go into a new note here so now I've got some text on an iPhone application this will work in SMS it will work on a web page it'll really work anywhere where this text if you want to cut copy face you take one finger select the text that you want that little magnified glass pops up you let go I could hit select select all or paste let's select and I get these two little blue bars that I can move along to select the text that I want once I have it selected I can hit copy try to paste it you just select again and you hit the paste button very quick and very easy we'll move over here to the blackberry storm2 and I'll show you how cut copy and paste works for this I'm gonna open up a message and here's a message from blackberry telling me about my registration we'll use this one for demonstration purposes so what you do here is you actually take two fingers and you click down on the device and you get these two or very similar-looking notification icons and you can move it around to just where you want hit the button down below hit cut and I wanted to paste it I would just hit the paste button same implementation and I'd go to where I want and the icon on the Left would be different I might be surprised at how easy it is to cut copy and paste on the blackberry that was something that was very difficult to do I think that they really put in a successful implementation of it so I think that this is definitely a draw depending on which one you are going to prefer so the next and final round of the stack Tech comparison our keyboards now both first-generation devices had drawbacks to their keyboards the iPhone first and actually accepted generation didn't have a landscape keyboard and the storm once keyboard was looking for he used it not very accurate the sure press technology that was there on the first generation it wasn't very good it only had one sensor in the middle he had to wait quite a while for the screen to reset and then come back up and if you're trying to type numbers that or letters are in the corners of the screen really weren't gonna have any accuracy whatsoever but that's the rectified on both of us isn't let's see how it works we're gonna open up a notepad and I'll open up a new note now again I am an iPhone user and I have been one for three years so I'm probably gonna be a little bit more proficient at the iPhones keyboard than I am at the storms but I will again keep this impartial so I've got a portrait keyboard which of course is simulated on the screen and I can say move my finger around I can see what each character is and if I turn the device I get a landscape keyboard so let's test the keyboard so you can see how well it works and I'm just gonna type very simply this is a test this is the tests rotated over you can see that there are some errors look out a correction feature fix that so I think that the keyboard on the iPhone is very quick and pretty easy to use let's go and take a look at the storm and now with this new screen technology with the four sensors see if it's more accurate to type on so I'm going to go ahead and open up a new message okay I've got a new email notification here and I've got the sort of shirt press keyboard that you've seen on the pearl and pearl flip it's got two letters perky and it does a sort of autocorrect functionality and also we'll learn as you type and as with the last generating device generation device if you turn it you also get a full landscape keyboard now if you move your finger over this you don't get the letter that pops up but you get sort of a blue glow lets you know where you are and if you flip it back to the shirt type keyboard you also get that same sort of blue glow so let's do a test and see how this works let's test the landscape keyboard for first and in my review of the storm one I really limited about it how poor I thought the keyboard was and almost unusable let's see if that's been fixed on the storm - and again I've only had this device for a few days so your speed is that they're going increase as you use it it's getting wet come back hit the button on the side I always do that let's try that again three go this is a test and I did that with 100% accuracy although it did have to correct with the keyboard and the phone recognize what I wanted to say and it came through very quick and I typed just as fast I have it on the iPhone that I've had it for three years so I'm very happy to report that the keyboard on the storm 2 has been fixed if you're holding out for a storm because you couldn't stand the keyboard on the first one put your fears to rest it is hundreds of times better on the second generation device let's take a look at the shirt type key word and I actually used to use a Perl and I was a fan of the keyboard so let's try that out so that was again still pretty quick and for not being a blackberry storm user I picked it up relatively easily and I think that as I used it I would only get faster so keyboard to keyboard here I'm almost inclined to give the keyboard to the storm too because it's got that clicking feeling to get the feeling of pressing a button however I am gonna call it a draw because I like the fact that I know what letter I'm typing on the iPhone how it pops up and it give me a little bit more accuracy but this is very very very close and is gonna come down to personal preference but fools do that again use a storm one you're gonna know that this is so much better than what you might be used to so stick around a new future rounds we're gonna cover email functionality and a ton of other things but I wanted to sort of give you a overview of how these two devices stacked up and I think they matched head-to-head very closely now much closer than they did with the last generation of hardware so that baby iPhone 3G and the blackberry storm one hope you guys enjoy for exclusive content share check me out on Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and to learn more about TechnoBuffalo check out TechnoBuffalo comm links to everything will be in the sidebar I'll see you guys in the next video bye-bye