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When web pages are reformatted for the screen it doesn’t always work out well, often leaving bits of text off the screen even when you’re using the ‘Column View’ smart-fit technology.
Another problem we had was selecting the right link. You can scroll to the link using the touchscreen, with each one under the finger being highlighted, but when it comes to selecting it, you can easily miss when the SurePress screen rolls under the finger when clicking.
You can zoom in by clicking on any part of the screen, but zooming out is not so easy, you need to keep pressing and pressing the reverse zoom key.
Overall, speed is important when browsing and there were too many things slowing down the experience on the Blackberry Storm 2.
The camera is simple but functional, it performs well enough in decent light and it works quickly. Shutter speed could be improved but a nice little feature allows you to stroke the screen up and down to zoom in and out – great idea!
The video is also very simple but it does do a basic job but is not effective enough for business use. Its HVGA (most decent mobile phone cameras carry at least VGA) and we’d estimate it runs at 24fps, as the footage taken is actually fairly smooth.
The Storm 2 is not designed as a media player but the music we listened to on it came out well (once we used some decent headphones) but it is fine for every day use as it comes in the box.
The feature in the contacts where you can hold down a contacts name to see all of the messages associated with them is replicated in the music player – you