Originally Posted by
Bbnivende Why go all in on a phone with no track record ? Why buy a BlackBerry DTEK when there are phones available that are a known quantity and have a larger battery ? Why not spend $15 on a case ?
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Ok, we tested many phones in the same price range and got feedbacks of those regarding mainly usability. What is like, no decent email client which offers resize of attached photos, no contacts sub-folder sync, no notification LED, they used bb10 before so they missed the hub. From our perspective activating another brand with BES is a nightmare, complicated, long and risky if for some reason the activation got interrupted, you can start from scratch the activation process after the phone wiped itself automatically. Plus the activation require a long additional step, which is encrypting the phone. After ordering a few of the DTEK50 and giving to the same test group, they were happy with the phone, because it fulfilled all their previously mentioned wishes. They also liked that after the heavy Classic this phone is lighter, slimmer. They only mentioned the battery life. For us it was also advantageous that come already encrypted and the activation takes lot less, than any other non BB Android phones. As there isn't any other option out as alternative in the same BB Classic/DTEK50 price range, we had to accept and move forward with the deployment of the phones. Don't forget BlackBerry stopped selling the Classic in many countries, forcing you to change, once again. Like with the end of OS7 devices. If you'd mention the additional £0.89 per month subscription of BB HUB, it is nice if you are a home user and not much, but if you manage your devices with BES and you already pay around £20 per year per device you don't want to pay again nearly £12 per year per device. Regarding the case, not everyone likes the cases, the one which doesn't cover the screen, won't protect the screen, which covers the screen is not practical and also looks less professional. I don't like neither those cases, which covers the screen. Dropped a few times all my phones, but non of them got cracked this easily. Don't get me wrong I know another type of device which has more screen crack accidents than the DTEK50 or any other phone and also in use by some high profile users in our company, is the iPhone 6-6S-7, plus and non-plus versions. Those have an even worse design.
Ok, we tested many phones in the same price range and got feedbacks of those regarding mainly usability. What is like, no decent email client which offers resize of attached photos, no contacts sub-folder sync, no notification LED, they used bb10 before so they missed the hub. From our perspective activating another brand with BES is a nightmare, complicated, long and risky if for some reason the activation got interrupted, you can start from scratch the activation process after the phone wiped itself automatically. Plus the activation require a long additional step, which is encrypting the phone. After ordering a few of the DTEK50 and giving to the same test group, they were happy with the phone, because it fulfilled all their previously mentioned wishes. They also liked that after the heavy Classic this phone is lighter, slimmer. They only mentioned the battery life. For us it was also advantageous that come already encrypted and the activation takes lot less, than any other non BB Android phones. As there isn't any other option out as alternative in the same BB Classic/DTEK50 price range, we had to accept and move forward with the deployment of the phones. Don't forget BlackBerry stopped selling the Classic in many countries, forcing you to change, once again. Like with the end of OS7 devices. If you'd mention the additional £0.89 per month subscription of BB HUB, it is nice if you are a home user and not much, but if you manage your devices with BES and you already pay around £20 per year per device you don't want to pay again nearly £12 per year per device. Regarding the case, not everyone likes the cases, the one which doesn't cover the screen, won't protect the screen, which covers the screen is not practical and also looks less professional. I don't like neither those cases, which covers the screen. Dropped a few times all my phones, but non of them got cracked this easily. Don't get me wrong I know another type of device which has more screen crack accidents than the DTEK50 or any other phone and also in use by some high profile users in our company, is the iPhone 6-6S-7, plus and non-plus versions. Those have an even worse design.
If this phone was being released by Blackberry or TCL, people will be bashing them like crazy!
03-21-17 07:02 AM
