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RIM Would have known well ahead of time the dimensions / room inside these phones. I guess they designed them on computers months before they saw a tangible Bold. I doubt they scribbled the design up on the corner of a news paper.
I suppose just cos they had non focus camera's laying around (in the back) they just used them.
As you said the Bold is a premium phone. RIM are trying to claw back market share so they would'nt have cut corners.
Theres my two cents
09-08-11 02:17 PM - Right
Let me know when it is a standard. Let me know when the other Blackberries have it. Also let me know what that has to do with what I wrote. NFC adds to the cost of the phone.
The WiFi adapter on the 9900 is better than the adapters on the other Blackberry's. This adds to the cost of the phone.
So you know what the cost of the bezel is and how it relates to the total cost of the phone? Whatever the cost of the bezel is it adds to the cost of the phone.
Samsung, HTC, etc. don't develop mobile phone software. Google does that for them. The phones end up costing less, having more features, and less to distinguish them from each other because of it too. They also use their own manufacturing plants that make RIM's manufacturing facilities look like weekend cabins.
Apple phones cost more to own so Apple makes more money even though they don't provide services like BIS that do cost money. Apple cheats every single person who ever bought an Apple accessory because they force anyone who produces or sells an Apple related product to pay a licensing fee. That fee is then passed onto the customer. This is why they have things like the stupid dock connector. They have their hands in AT&T's pockets above and beyond the other brands. They have their hands in the customers pockets above and beyond any other brand. They have their hands in the pockets of every accessory maker above and beyond every other brand. They have their hands in the pockets of the hardware manufactures above and beyond any other brand. Then multiply that by the number of products they sell since they sell iPods and Computers as well. They make more friggin money and they should be putting more into their friggin phones.
RIM is not Apple. It's quite simple really. If manufacturing cost for the 9900 is equal to or greater than an iPhone, it could even be less, and RIM has to develop the software to run that phone, and provide BIS services for everyone who has a 9900 and allow lesser profit on standardized accessories and apps,,,... Then that 9900 cost more,,,... AF or no AF,,,... Than the iPhone. OK?
Fitting the camera in was never the issue, one look at the Samsung Nexus will tell you that. Its about margin.
I absolutly despise the way those to Chimpanzees run RIM. It's my beleif that RIM has some very talented people and some fantastic ideas because of those people, but the leadership always takes the cheap way out and chops their noses off to spite their face. Had they advertized the PB and used the increased income to get 2.0 and all the OS7 devices out sooner then they would have taken a nice bite out of Apple's Buttocks.
They decided not spending money on advertizing, and aquiring companies that they cannot support with product was the way to go. They could have been No.2 in the tablet market and they blew it. Now they are talking about an OS update IN 2012 for furious customers on a product that has been rendered unsellable by top end management debacles,,,????????????????????????
So anyway, its really about money and mismanagement, but yeah, they could be offering the customers more, RIM just needs to realize that giving us more requires that more of us exist.
Don't go takin all this personal, I am 100% with you on loving the Blackberry's, and because of that, I too share your frustration when I see missed opportunities on RIM's part.Last edited by olblueyez; 10-26-11 at 01:34 PM.
10-26-11 12:53 PM
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