Pre-release Storm 2 Gets Hands-on Review! Looks Like SurePress is Dead

by the BerryReview Team on May 21st, 2009 at 3:18 pm EST

That was quick! Sean Cooper over at Engadget managed to get his hands on a pre-release Storm 2 and walks us through it. Sadly the review is a bit limited since the touchscreen has a fault where they cannot accept RIM’s user agreement so they could not review the new OS.

It looks like SurePress is now confirmed dead. There were some rumors of a haptic (vibrating feedback) feature but Engadget did not see it since they could not get into the OS. Its kind of crazy that RIM is dropping their SurePress feature since they were touting their horn all year about how “revolutionary” it was. Supposedly the device is sleeker and has a nice heft and the touchscreen does not move. As rumored before the bottom keys are now soft keys instead of actual buttons. Engadget says it has metal trim which sounds nice.

Check out the rest of the pics in the Engadget gallery

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Tags: Hands-On, Review, Storm 2, Verizon

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4 Comments to “Pre-release Storm 2 Gets Hands-on Review! Looks Like SurePress is Dead”

Posted by: Luis Merlos
May 21, 2009 at 3:24 pm EST

Probably a good thing they did away with the clickable screen hope this one is way better, too bad is a verizon phone, not about to switch for it.

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Posted by: DavidB
May 21, 2009 at 11:15 pm EST

I LIKE the clickable screen. Makes for a far more positive feedback typing experience than that other touch screen smartphone. I just wish they would/could fix the generally laggy feel of the OS. I’m running the .148 and still it goes off into some “twilight zone” totally unresponsive far too often.

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Posted by: aden
May 25, 2009 at 1:15 pm EST

is really gonna be over for surepress technology? so there wont be any improvements in surepress ??

thats ridiculous..

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