Re: Blackberry Storm - Oh my god!


"Larry" <noone@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"kman22" <kman22@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Yep, using the latest OS. Also, I'm very tech savvy (MS in IT and
teach at community college). Yes, I've tried the IE and Firefox
emulations. Still, the OS is very buggy.



I'm interested in "buggy". Buggy how do you find? Does it crash or do
things unexpected?

As to the delay (lag), these devices have users that demand a device
that will run all day on a charge no matter what they do with them. To
achieve this with today's technology, a much slower processor at lower
voltage is used, as well as much slower memory, including flash memory
which is very slow, indeed, in comparison to your 4Ghz desktop with the
latest DDRx wide memory on it. All the "smooth" graphics demanded by
the users and motion graphics for even the simplest of things to make it
cutesy just eat into the available processor time on a 400 Mhz ARM
processor. So, commands from the cutesy touchscreen interface go
ignored or stack up until the processor can take time out from its
cutesy graphics load to process your commands. If the command
processing were first, locking the cutesy graphics processing as soon as
you clicked, users would simply pitch a fit as it ate into the "style"
and "coolness" to make it fast. It's a real hard decision for designers
trying to keep everybody happy on a low-speed environment.

My Nokia N800 Linux internet tablet also uses an overrun 400 Mhz ARM
processor. We have an app the hackers wrote to let us see how much
memory commit and CPU loading anything running uses unless the app is in
full screen mode. I'm amazed at how many usages we just take for
granted on the much faster desktop computers force the little ARM
processor into 100% loads that just hang their while the heavy
processing goes on and on...eventually dropping back and responding to
touchscreen or button inputs.

I don't think any busy mobile device will give you the kind of response
you want. Iphone reduces loading by simply eliminating many hard usage
stuff like Flash, multitasking, and other common uses that require lots
of CPU cycles. Running only one program, other than its core system
programs at a time makes it look much faster, until you take into
account what it's not doing for you.

If you don't call up 8 apps simultaneously, you'll find it more
responsive, of course. Try to keep that in mind before you take it
back. I don't find Storm any different in response from any of the
other little mobile devices....It's not a dual core 8Ghz 64-bit Intel on
a 2 Ghz motherboard, ya know...(c;]



Sometimes, it locks up. At times, the touch screen does not even respond. As
for using multiple apps at once, I've not attempted. When I turn from a
vertical to a horizonal view, it can take anywhere from 2-8 seconds for the
display to respond. A few times, it never responded. Maybe I'm still
orienting to this device, but my old Blackberry 8830 was much better.
Hopefully, some future OS/firmware releases will address the issues.



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