South Afria Youths name Blackberry the coolest brand!

**henryco** · 06-18-2012, 03:35 AM

This emerged in the latest SA Sunday Times Generation Next Brand Survey, which polls over 5000 youths aged 8 to 22 on what they think are the coolest brands across a range of categories.

BlackBerry was voted the coolest brand to have overall. It was also rated the coolest cellphone, followed by Nokia, Apple iPhone, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

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**DJ Reyes** · 06-18-2012, 05:48 AM

Yep. Looks like the youth of South Africa know a quality brand when they see one.

We posted it in the blogs a couple of weeks ago.

**anthogag** · 06-20-2012, 07:29 PM

I vote South Africa as the coolest country

**Mr.Conviviality** · 06-21-2012, 11:45 AM

For the sake of all the other fruit fans out there, I hope the same article didn't say that African Youth vote JORDACHE as the coolest jeans either...

**anjali_jain** · 06-22-2012, 01:41 AM

Glad to see the news. US youth need to learn from South African youth.

**tchocky77** · 06-22-2012, 02:18 AM

Just curious. Does South Africa have any 3G (or faster) data infrastructure? RIM and Nokia seem to do well in places where the networks are mostly EDGE.

**leftypepper716** · 06-24-2012, 07:19 AM

Pretty sure if they gave the same poll to the USSR of the mid-80's who could get thier hands on ANY smartphone device, BlackBerry would poll#1...bigger and MOST important question is, where will BlackBerry be IF? the USA did a similar poll, say this December? Let's not worry about the loose change in grandmas sofa, and foucus on making RIM a viable device that takes on iphone, HTC and Samsung and the Droid in the US shall we?