Not that useful.  At first I thought it was really cool being able to see BBMs, emails, and texts on the screen, but it gets kind of frustrating.  There’s times where you get so comfortable scrolling form the outside through new messages and find yourself wanting to reply right away, forgetting you have to flip the device, wait for the specific message you had open from the front face screen to show up, then you’re good.  Too many steps involved there.

It had me wondering if I was going to have the same feeling for the Allerta inPulse smartphone watch once released.  After thinking about it, I strongly believe the watch ends up being used differently than that front face screen.  The watch is on your wrist and your BlackBerry could be in your pocket, so it’s a convenient quick glance tool.  The BlackBerry Style 9670 could be right in front of you closed where any indicator that handicaps you from getting onto it right away in a reply, forward, or edit (assuming it’s email) just seems useless to me.

So what do I like the front face for? Music! It’s great scrolling through albums and songs, adjusting the volume as I please.  There’s no actual animation on the screen when flipping through albums, which I’m not so fond of.  Everybody else has it.  In fact the BlackBerry does too, just not on the front face screen.

How could the front face screen be more useful? If it had a camera on it perhaps.  That calls for a long and in-depth discussion we won’t get into, but you can just imagine how nice it would be to have a camera out on the front.  Also I think touch screen would be cool on the outside to scroll through notifications.

So some of  you may disagree with me, but it’s all a personal preference. I am a fan of the BlackBerry Style 9670 and am not saying that the screen on the outside should not be there, but it’s just not that useful for me with the capabilities and attributes it has.  Doesn’t suffice for me.  What do you guys think?

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