I am never.
Bought a Z10 first . Then a passport and another Z10 for other purposes.
Very happy with the devices.
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I am never.
Bought a Z10 first . Then a passport and another Z10 for other purposes.
Very happy with the devices.
Indeed, I went from my Samsung S6 back to the Z30, it just such a good device, and my Android apps, while slightly slower to load some actually seem to run smoother, who knew.
Just want to know what seems to be the American habit of staying with one provider? I jump ship often to other providers if they meet my needs, but then I buy my handsets SIM free.
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There are plenty of GSM carriers that still dont carry the passport, and probably never will. and if carriers didnt matter, there wouldnt be such a big deal about tmo and bb, and att getting their own version of the passport.
Agreed! KM was more Thorsten . . . Bla1ze more like Chen. :D :yes:
I changed my carrier to get my passport and don't regret it at all. There is no reason to be carrier loyal especially now that they are all ditching the contract plans. Shop around and get the phone that you want. BTW the Z30 is a major upgrade from a Z10 still. BBOS10 still has it competitive in a sea of android even with pretty obsolete hardware. Don't let the gimmicks get to you, most of the features that matter have not improved much over the z30 in real world usage.
I'm happy with my choice of smartphone. I may want the latest thing, but I really don't actually need the latest thing. I'm not a fashion victim or a status stress puppy (it takes all sorts to make a world), so being realistic - I'm happy. Ages ago I was waiting for the rumoured Z30, but my carrier gave me a free Z10 as an upgrade from my 9860. I should have held on for the six CPU-GPU processor cores of the Z30 as compared to the three of the Z10, and all the other Z30 advantages, but no I didn't, and I will say that I'm happy now anyway. OK BB's progress in the spec race (if they are even thinking about it) was not so great as the Android guys, but as a daily tool the BB is a good piece of kit. Yes I'm sure a lot of people get sucked into comparing spec sheets, but often the daily tasks don't require a massive spec. The future of BB as a company selling things to the public, as compared to selling things to other companys, is another subject. They need to play to their strengths, and I see those strengths being areas of interest to other companies and organisations and the wealthy.
50% of the world smartphone market is Verizon, Sprint and USCellular ? Are you sure?
As of now no they won't. Only phones with their name on it. They do take a SIM for LTE. From what I understand LTE or a variant of it was supposed to eliminate the GSM CDMA thing but evidently it hasn't done that yet.
Except where I live and go no GSM carrier will provide you a working phone because there is little or no signal available. If you live in a big city and never venture off into the sticks then you'd be alright.
Did I say world? I think the link say USA, not the world.
Can anyone tell us what percentage of the world smartphone market is Verizon, Sprint and USCellular all together ?
I don't think those carriers are anywhere but in the USA.
Again, we have to look how BBRY revenue is shifting. Latest results show North America as 43.3% of BBRY's revenue. they CANNOT afford to keep ignoring the US.
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Remember when ATT had iphone exclusive? Now remember when that contract expired (2011) and Verizon started to carry the iphone? they [apple] more than doubled their sales in 2011. that means for 4 years, most people didnt switch to att because of the iphone.
I'm disappointed in the pathetic Facebook app that BlackBerry has given us :nerd:
Those make up like 50% of the US market? So that's 160 million phones out of approx 7 billion cell-phone subscriptions world-wide... so that's about 2%? The math is pretty rough but it's probably a decent guess.
Edit: Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._phones_in_use
So the chart is where they are currently at, but what about the potential market? I doubt that north america would be the biggest potential market?
Open Facebook in browser >>> hit the menu button >>> select "+Add to Homescreen" >>> Problems solved.
Why use an app for something that doesn't need an app?
CDMA has 25% share worldwide.
CDMA vs GSM - Difference and Comparison | Diffen
but again, that doesnt matter. all the effort that BBRY has already put into direct sales, has backfired...
q5, z3, leap... i mean why?!?
they should stick with Classic Passport, and Z10 Z30... and upgrade the build quality, specs, camera, etc... like every other manufacturer is doing.. instead, they are wasting money putting new shells around z10, q10 specs for last 3+ years!
I was taking a guess at the "percentage of the world smartphone market is Verizon, Sprint and USCellular all together" that Gajja requested, I have no idea how many other carriers use CDMA around the world.
Your article has a good explanation of the differences but it does confuse me a little... the first line says "GSM and CDMA are competing wireless technologies with GSM enjoying about an 82% market share globally." but then it goes on to say that GSM has 75% and CDMA has 25%...?
So if Verizon, Sprint and USCellular all together make up about 2% of the world smartphone market I can see one reason BB would not be particularly concerned about those guys. Other parts of the world marketplace are probably looking like they offer more potential as low hanging fruit.
and yet they were concerned about tmobile... lol
Same with Best Buy. When I went to buy my Z10, the salesperson at Best Buy pushed Apple so hard on my I thought we were going to end up going at it right on the sales floor. He told me Blackberry was slower (it's not), less secure (HAHAHAHAHAH), ugly (please!), and going out of business so I would have no support for my phone. Here I am, a year and a half later with my Z10 that I ended up buying online, and while yes, there are some issues, one of those issues is not walking by a fountain near Wall Street and finding out later that my iPhone has been cloned - there are actually apps for that out there that anyone can get.
I don't know when or where Blackberry lost the magic, but I for one am still a believer, even with this latest crap of an OS update. If they can get the software right, they can get back on top eventually. I've had people sitting behind me on the bus suddenly say "Whoa! What phone is that?" I'd like my next one to be the Passport and get more of the whoa's.
As someone who went from a z10 to a z30, it really is a huge upgrade
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I feel totally disregarded by BlackBerry!
I have had an 8330, a 9650, a 9930 a Z10 and a Z30. And that's where the line ends since my cdma carrier won't any anything else. I have recently picked up an Android and it has become my daily driver.
I don't want a pkb, i don't want a classic and my carrier doesn't offer a PAssport anyway.....
Guess what? The LG G4 i got is fast, smooth, does everything i want it to do and ISN'T A BLACKBERRY!
I would have looked forward to a new slab phone if there had been some news....so Yes! Yes, Blackberry has let me down and i am really sorry to have to use something else as a daily driver but I want my NFL Mobile and i couldn't get that on my Z30.....
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*until 2016, maybe, when Verizon goes all-LTE with its new phone lineup. But I have full faith in their ability to come up with some newcockamamie reasonsnetwork certification protocols to exclude devices.