Heather Foeh

For the past month I’ve been getting tantalizing emails from Verizon about the new Blackberry Storm with a touchscreen. I’ve been salivating over the videos and online tours of its functions, so on Friday when it was released I stopped by the Verizon store to check one out. Sadly, I found a fatal flaw with it. The on-screen keyboard is very cool but it won’t work my fingernails. You have to touch the ‘buttons’ with skin, but when you have long nails, it’s impossible to touch the right one! I tried to type several sentences and it was painful - I was only able to get a few letters right.

So, I’ll be keeping my Blackberry 8830 for now, which has served me well and works with my nails.