I'm finally getting more and more used to the screen on mine, but I wouldn't say I love it quite yet. LOL

I'm definitely going to download the new software for it soon, though, as the screen is way to slow reacting for my liking.

 

Help you guys out http://forums.crackberry.com/f86/

 

the Storm rocks!!!! it works perfectly with the G.

I used to not have caller ID on the car's main screen with my Treo 700p. Now i have it with the Storm!

 

Sounds good on the Storm phone- are you streaming music in your G too? I've downloaded m.moodio.fm on my storm - so far so good but haven't tried to hook this up yet in my G.

 

What OS is everyone running? Verizon released .75 last week which improves on some of the downfalls of the initial release.

RIM constantly writes new software to fix existing/new bugs and to speed up the phone. .75 was a vast improvement over .65. Last week, overseas provider Bell accidentally made available 4.7.0.76 which is the latest software update for the Storm...which was ironic because Bell isn't even selling the Storm itself yet. They quickly realized the mistake and took it down, but not before people grabbed the software upgrade for themselves. I'm running 4.7.0.76 and its a little bit faster than .75. I didn't have .75 long enough to make an accurate comparison. The most notiable difference with .75 and .76 is that the screen reacts even faster with .76 than with .75 with the screen switching from portrait to landscape pretty much immediately and taking little time at all to switch from landscape to portrait.

Overall speed in opening apps is a lot faster too. If you want it, go here:

http://rs386.rapidshare.com/files/17...l_Mobility.exe

Once you dl it, install it on your computer. Once you do that, you'll have to go to the path c:\program files\common files\research in motion\apploader
and delete the Vendor.xml file. Since we do not have Bell, if you don't delete this file, your Verizon Storm will not install or recognize the software. Deleting Vendor.xml fixes that problem.

Once you do that, plug in your BB and run Desktop Manager, it'll recognize the upgrade and prompt you to run it.

Total install time can range from 30-60 minutes, depending on how much info your phone has (whenever upgrading software, Desktop Manager will automatically backup everything you have, install the software, and restore all of your info). During this process, don't unplug the phone from the computer.

This upgrade is not a Beta release, its a final release that was given to Bell that Bell released before it was supposed to.

Just to let everyone know, since this is NOT from Verizon, should something happen to your software and you try to ask Verizon for help, they won't help you.

In the highly improbable case that something does mess up software wise, its easy to fix. Just go to Verizon or Blackberry's site and dl the 4.7.0.75 software again and install it on your phone.

Its also recommended that after you update your software to do the imfamous battery pull. In the past I used to not do it and would realize my phone would sometimes just go nuts. After doing the battery pull the phone would always run fine with 0 problems.

Overall I love the phone. I didn't like it much with the initial software, but I figured that the initial software would have more than its fair share of bugs, its normal and happened with the iPhone as well. With 4.7.0.65 I could type faster than the phone could register my keystrokes, slowing me down tremendously. Thats no longer the case and I'm as fast on here as I was on my World Edition.

Also, seems like Vodafone released or is releasing 4.7.0.78 on their Storms so I'll see if I can find that floating around somewhere.