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As a sprint user, I went to a Verizon store to test the Storm. An employee there set me up so I can play with it, and I got caught in an incessant circle of bugs and error messages. It was insanely frustrating, and I'm shocked they'd leave a phone out to test if it were this quirky. They must do work before I'd consider jumping ship to Verizon.

Tom of PA @ Feb 15, 2009 16:01:21 PM

Verizon Plummets in Customer Satisfaction by Denying Problems

Well, this is where Verizon will be heading when it becomes more well known the company was fully aware of releasing the Storm with the flaws it had. There's also a real possibility the Storms made in Mexico might be the ones which have buggy issues for some odd reason. Whatever the case, Verizon and its denial of "We've never heard of any problems" with this phone and telling me "You're the first one to complain and calling it a piece of crap!" Well, I was only telling them how I felt after opening it and after a lengthy install with the slowest software (especially Roxio) on the BB Desktop. If a customer tells you a product they purchased is flawed, next time Verizon needs to listen or suffer the consequences!!!! RIM is another embarassment, truly unprofessional for a company that deep in my mind should have their act together since so many companies rely on their enterprise servers and cell phones. What a joke! Not a single apology or public statement about what happened, and basically has no ethics! All they and Verizon want are the numbers for holiday sales, instead they got a public bashing that is truly deserved.

bullie dog of CA @ Dec 10, 2008 22:55:57 PM

Have a Storm, Lot's to love and hate

Switching from a Treo, here's what I miss: QWERTY keyboard and automatic application/memory management.

Here's what I love: slick OS, very nice browser, perfect Bluetooth (phone and audio/video), phone quality, GPS on Maps, Visual Voice Mail, camera/video...great quality.

Here's what I don't love: No WiFi (I do not get good Verizon coverage, click-screen..I'm on the fence with this.

Lot's more to read if you want: http://blog.JavaDevelop.com

Shawn of MA @ Dec 04, 2008 10:01:08 AM

Trailing badly....

Bill, loved your humorous subject line. Mine is more accurate.

Greg of CT @ Dec 04, 2008 04:56:42 AM

On the leading edge

RIM offers a range of products. Most people will buy the slightly older products because they are cheaper and because RIM has had 6 months or a year to smooth out the bugs. Early adopters will buy Storm now, but millions will buy it in 6 months or later. Don't forget - iphone had even more glitches at launch (people forget). The newest products on the leading edge have bugs. It's been true with PCs for the last 20 years and it's still true with other computer-like products.

Bill of CA @ Dec 03, 2008 18:45:18 PM

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