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Best Buy US:
Verizon: Z10 is 18th and 27th (white and black)
AT & T: Z10 is 11th
T-Mobile: Z10 is 11th
The Q10 shows up nowhere with the carriers. It only shows up on the unlocked. The Z10 and Q10, unlocked, are 6th and 20th, respectively, out of 192 phones.
Are none of the US carriers offering Q10 on contract?
Why does the Z10 rank so much higher as an unlocked device vs on contract?
Edit: But the shops have the Z10 and Q10 for sale.08-01-13 03:50 PMLike 0 -
Sent from my XT890 using Tapatalk 208-01-13 03:51 PMLike 0 - Just thinking a bit more about those Verizon sales:
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BBRY at 0.1%. One sale per thousand. I can't see how any management team could justify continuing to expend shelf space on these products. Do you? Honestly, it makes no financial sense, and in business, that is ultimately the only sense that counts.
Here's what I think will happen. As soon as contractually possible, Verizon will cease selling BBRY products. Until that time these products will be dead phones walking. No marketing beyond what is mandated by contract. No staff training or incentives. No software updates.08-01-13 04:00 PMLike 0 -
- No need to hack BB OS10 it hack itself... Thor call it a Feature that APPL don't have... ---->
BlackBerry BB10 update reportedly deleting text messages at random
BlackBerry BB10 update reportedly deleting text messages at random - Edge Runner | Edge Runner
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Android 4.3 update causing problems with Nexus 4 handsets, rendering some unusablenew_me222 likes this.08-01-13 04:06 PMLike 1 - Just thinking a bit more about those Verizon sales:
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BBRY at 0.1%. One sale per thousand. I can't see how any management team could justify continuing to expend shelf space on these products. Do you? Honestly, it makes no financial sense, and in business, that is ultimately the only sense that counts.
Here's what I think will happen. As soon as contractually possible, Verizon will cease selling BBRY products. Until that time these products will be dead phones walking. No marketing beyond what is mandated by contract. No staff training or incentives. No software updates.
As Verizon is the largest smartphone carrier in the US by current sales (36.9%) discontinuation would, in my opinion, kick the stool out from under BBRY stock. Remember Mr Heins said the following on March 22:
CEO Thorsten Heins said the company has to regain market share in the U.S. for BlackBerry to be successful. 'You got to win here to win everywhere else,' he said. 'That's just the way it is. We've lost market share quite a bit, to put it mildly, and we absolutely need BlackBerry 10 to turn us around.'08-01-13 04:11 PMLike 0 - Is it this one?
KB34478-Received SMS text messages do not appear within BlackBerry Hub on a BlackBerry 10 smartphone
Received SMS text messages do not appear within BlackBerry Hub on a BlackBerry 10 smartphone
Overview
Received SMS text messages do not appear within the BlackBerry Hub on a BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Sent items appear and in some cases may force the appearance of received SMS messages.
Resolution
This is a previously reported issue that is being investigated by our development team. No resolution time frame is currently available.
Workaround
Restart the BlackBerry 10 smartphone:
Hold down the power button until the option to Restart appears.
Tap Restart.
Don't be so harsh if this is the issue. We all remember the 3 finger salute to reboot from the Windows 95 days don't we? This is much easier.08-01-13 04:13 PMLike 0 - It depends if analysts are anticipating bbry to grow 1% per year then by year three bbry should have 4% market share. If Verizon says no to bbry then in year three it will hypothetically be zero'ish and the stock will tumble.08-01-13 04:15 PMLike 0
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- Fairfax earning are out:
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (TSX:FFH)(TSX:FFH.U) announces a net loss of $157.8 million in the second quarter of 2013 ($8.55 net loss per diluted share after payment of preferred share dividends) compared to net earnings of $93.7 million in the second quarter of 2012 ($3.79 net earnings per diluted share after payment of preferred share dividends), primarily reflecting unrealized losses on its bond portfolio, partially offset by strong underwriting results. Book value per basic share decreased to $361.87 at June 30, 2013 from $378.10 at December 31, 2012 (a decrease of 1.6% adjusted for the $10 per common share dividend paid in the first quarter of 2013).
"We had strong and much improved underwriting performance in the second quarter and first half of 2013. Our net loss in the second quarter was only due to net mark-to-market bond losses of $500 million as a result of higher interest rates, including $400 million on our state and muni bond portfolio, a majority of which is insured by Berkshire Hathaway. Our muni bond portfolio was mainly acquired in the last quarter of 2008 at an after-tax yield of 5.79%," said Prem Watsa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax, who further commented, "we are maintaining our defensive equity hedges due to our concern about the financial markets and the economic outlook. We continue to be soundly financed, with quarter-end cash and marketable securities at the holding company in excess of $1.2 billion."
Also an old investor presentation... AprilAttached Files08-01-13 04:16 PMLike 4 - 08-01-13 04:16 PMLike 0
- If the comment section is any indication, the phone is DOA. The *only* saving grace might be massive ad spend Google plans to commit to the phone...08-01-13 04:22 PMLike 0
- True, 0.1% of phones doesn't translate to a lot of dollars. However if Verizon were to stop carrying BlackBerry's altogether, this would be a bad thing perception wise, and perception can affect the stock far more than those 0.1% phones ever could. "Kicking the stool out," whatever that means in terms of stock price, is probably an exaggeration though.kfh227 likes this.08-01-13 04:26 PMLike 1
- People might not be happy with the pricing of the Moto X but at the end of the day, it's a lot more appealing because:
- It's Android
- It's STOCK Android
- It has Apps
- It isn't BlackBerry
- Highly customizable
Add that all up with the whole "The US is against BlackBerry" and well..08-01-13 04:26 PMLike 0 - More from Fairfax's Q2 earnings:
"Fairfax holds significant investments in equity and equity-related securities. In response to the significant appreciation in equity market valuations and uncertainty in the economy, the company has hedged its equity investment exposure. At June 30, 2013, equity hedges temporarily represented approximately 109.2% of the company's equity and equity-related holdings (in excess of the company's target ratio of 100%) because of quarter-end equity fluctuations. The market value and the liquidity of these hedges are volatile and may vary dramatically either up or down in short periods, and their ultimate value will therefore only be known over the long term."08-01-13 04:33 PMLike 0 - Understands!! Maybe you have been hacked! I am not an enterprise customer either but I got hacked 5 times in 2 years when I had an I-phone, 4 out of the 5, I was able with the credit card company to reverse the charges but couldn't do it with the five, and these are big $ amounts to make some peoples head spin, so security is really realy IMPORTANT to me!!!
08-01-13 04:38 PMLike 4 -
"You got to win here to win everywhere else yada yada"
According to Mr. Heins:
Failure in US -->losing everywhere else.
I didn't directly comment on AT&T since BBRY is 1.4% of their sales (1400% better than Verizon relatively speaking), but I could see how a more bearish poster than me might consider AT&T a less than guaranteed source of BBRY products in the near future as well.
No way AT&T would think that they could limp by with the other 98.6% of their sales, could they?08-01-13 04:38 PMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1008-01-13 04:39 PMLike 0 - Serious question, have you ever been to an adult party where you felt that people wanted you to bugger off, but not really saying it directly?
I have a feeling that this might be happening to you here.
Posted via CB1008-01-13 04:52 PMLike 17 -
The eh... X about this phone is that the younger generation might be willing to pay for the colour choices but I have no real clue about that sort of thing...Last edited by cgk; 08-01-13 at 05:16 PM.
plasmid_boy likes this.08-01-13 04:57 PMLike 1 - Came across this on another thread and love what I read. It may not be a money maker, but it is a great thing for a global company to be doing, and on an ongoing basis. Good for BlackBerry and the kids who qualified for the program.
BlackBerry and Free The Children Inspire Canadian Youth to Build-A-Village - Press Releases08-01-13 05:00 PMLike 9 - Moto X article.
Don't read it. But look at hte hardware specs ..... then go to the comments.
AnandTech | A Quick Look at the Moto X - Motorola's New Flagship08-01-13 05:02 PMLike 3
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