Typing fingers strike the edge of the space bar in the millimetres where it ends above the plastic casing of the keyboard. In the LA38G that distance doesn’t exist so you frequently miss the space bar, and the solution is to type much slower and be conscious of hitting it deliberately.

A few consumer touches like the HDMI output and touchpad-based media controls make it much more than a corporate machine, but don’t plan on traveling too far from a power point as all that data crunching drains the battery fast.

The features that make a Blackberry so good — the intuitive interface and push email that’s ridiculously easy to set up — are still present, but if the nicely spaced keyboard was one of the reasons you loved the older models, the Storm might seem a little too ‘one of the crowd’.