excellent!! i like i like.. its good to see its right there with the Iphone.. with all the other advantages over the Iphone this is good to see. BB has made some great strides in the browser area!

Ah, if you disable JS on the Storm, shouldn't you disable it in Mobile Safari as well? I certainly do on my iPhone 3G and it loads pages a ton faster.

Is it me or did both phones seem really slow....is there a bad signal in the airport??

I use to have an iphone, loved verizon's service more so i came back...but still both phones take AT LEAST 25-30 seconds to load a site. Horrible unless you have wifi of coarse.

but i dont know...probably going to end up with a storm anyway I need a new toy

Guys I love Blackberry as much as the next guy (my love dates back to the 7510 through Nextel) but the iPhone's browser is leaps and bounds above that which is included on the Blackberry Bold. And if the Storm has the same browser then I will take this review with a grain of salt.

I own a Blackberry Bold and an iPod touch. I'm all for hyping up the Storm but let's be real...there is no comparison.

I know you were just testing the network/browser speed, but why wouldnt you have them both oriented the same way?

That seems rather one sided.. Usually a fair reviewer, but this is rather comical.

Now do the test of, talking on the phone and browsing the web or sending emails... *waits* Oh that’s right, its on Verizon, you cant! doh!!!!

Very nice, Kevin!

TheiPhoneblog.com will, of course, run our own tests, using a cardboard cut out of the iPhone #G vs. your video of the Storm. We predict Safari will crash less!

What's up with the lack of WiFi, though? Is RIM going all Battlestar Galactica on wireless? I know WiFi on the iPhone leaves me open to the frakken Cylons, but with warp speed, exchanging files via Zero Config, sweet, sweet remote desktop over 802.11g, and otherwise integrating with home automation and virtually every other WiFi equipped device on the planet... at least I'll have fun before I'm nuked.

Any chance the GSM Storm will get WiFi?

Waiting on your review. Be kinder than Time. Please :)

Just visited WSJ.com. I used goto and hit enter at the same time you did and my curve loaded the page WAY before either of those phones. The storm screen was still white once mine finished loading.

Iphone 3G browser sucks. I gave up the Iphone to get a blackberry bold because I was sick and tired of the browser crashing all the time as well as the crappy battery life with 3G enabled. I couldn't surf the full myspace website without it crashing. It would work fine with the mobile version but its limited.

You need to update your iphone to 2.1 and then run the tests again (your 3G symbol is the old one). Talk about bias; but i guess that's what I expect from crackberry.

I really don't care how fast or slow, i just need to get this lovely storm and i don't care how fast Iphone is..
even if they have built superdubbber fast browser to iphone i will be still getting the BB storm.

Many airports have complementary wi-fi and had this been a true real world test the iphone wouldve been using it... and why would anyone turn javascript off?!? unless of course, its too much to handle for the storm... i mean i know this is crackberry.com but try to be at least a little less biased.

Hi Folks! Thanks for the great feedback. As part of my job I do a lot of testing using various cell phones to test carrier systems and thought I would throw a few things out there for consideration during your testing process.

First thing is to consider how cell phones might interfere with each other. Depending on how well you can receive the tower site and it can receive your signal will depend on how much power the mobile will be putting out. If the uplink signal is really crappy due to distance to the tower or high noise, your mobile will quite likely be running at full uplink power. While generally mobiles in ideal conditions don't generally interfere with each other, under poor signal conditions they often do. Essentially you have a receiver that is capable of picking up a signal that is millionths of a watt that is right next to a transmitter of the other phone that is putting out up to a tenth of a watt. Its’ receiver is getting hammered even if it technically an out of band signal (cell/PCS phones TX and RX and different frequencies but under the right conditions they will and do interfere). In layman’s terms, this is like you trying to see the plant Mercury in broad daylight competing with the light of the sun. The fix for this problem is easy, just keep them apart at least 10 feet or so minimum.

Second to consider is antenna orientation. FYI, on most communications today we use vertical polarization (unlike for example TV systems that use horizontal polarization). In the good ole days it was easy to tell which way the mobile antenna was oriented since it stuck up out the top. This means when the antenna of the mobile is vertically oriented with the tower antenna which is vertically polarized, signal transmission is generally best. I set up in tethered mode on my computer, used a continuous stream of video and watched the video buffer indicator moving along as an indication of data rate (informal testing we can all do) to test with. I don’t know for sure which way the antenna in a Blackberry Storm is mounted since I’m not brave enough to crack one open (at least yet) but I found when it is on its back facing the ceiling it doesn’t work so well. Holding it up in portrait was just a little better, but holding it in landscape position and then rotating about a little I found it absolutely screams when it gets lined up with the tower site. To say there is directivity is an understatement. Rotating in the landscape from optimal download rate to just about nothing you go about 90 degrees of rotation. I don’t have an iPhone to test with but I would suspect it has similar qualities.

Third, time of day. During certain times of day cellular/PCS traffic is much heavier than other times. To maximize the tower resource (their BTS equipment, switches, and network connectivity, etc.) the carriers run their systems only to the point they can accommodate the average daily peak traffic. This keeps their networks affordable and supposedly the cost of their service as far as we are concerned (although I have a hard time believing that each month when I get my phone bill). The real proof of a carriers system is during typical traffic peaks around 8 to 10AM and 4 to 6 PM each day. Testing at other times, such as in the middle of the night you will probably have much better results so be sure to document what time you performed your test too.

Things I’m still curious about are the resets. Back in the 90’s BellSouth, and IBM developed a touch screen cell phone called the Simon. I was a beta tester and found it to be really cool but would often lock up in poor signal coverage conditions due to the mobile transmitter ramping up to full power and the signal overloading the internal microprocessor. The only way that problem could be fixed was to remove the battery. I’m guessing either it was considered too far ahead of its time, too expensive or had too many problems to see the light of day in the market place. I’m wondering if some of these odd lockup/resets etc. are truly software problems or due to RF overloading. It is just something to think about while you are testing.

Well good luck, and I look forwarding to seeing your test results.

Best Regards,

Jim

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HELP PLEASE!!! I have the storm and it is unlocked and being used on T-Mobile. Email and everything works great BUT I have no browser. The Blackberry people say it is not possible to have a browser on the T-Mobile network. Can anyone tell me something different??? PLEASE I love this phone.

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