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Above the volume controls is a port for a standard 3. My shipping test unit powered on with the same good-looking analog-style that is, with hour and minute hands clock seen on the BlackBerry Flip you can even use it as an alarm clock. The touch-screen interface differentiates the Storm from its RIM brethren—and there I was disappointed. At times it was difficult to figure out what action was required: In setting up the free, downloadable AOL Instant Messaging application, I had difficulty selecting radio buttons to show that I had read and agreed to the user agreement, resulting in my having to scroll through the agreement several times to try again.

Scrolling was generally slow, too. When looking through contacts, I had no way to get quickly to the general area of the alphabet I wanted to check a nice iPhone feature —and then scroll quickly to the appropriate entry with a fingertip swipe. Swiping moves you just a few entries in either direction, making it too time consuming to be practical with an address book the size of mine plus entries.

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