Dear BlackBerry! There's still time to fix the Passport keyboard.
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Posted via CB1007-07-14 05:32 PMLike 0 - I hope BlackBerry does read these forums and realizes how polarized people are about this device. And this is a BlackBerry fan site!! If the people on this site are so divided, then just imagine how the general public (who for the most part doesn't like BlackBerry) is going to react to this device.
I hope BlackBerry comes out with a state of the art awesome looking all touch device soon. In the mean time, The Z3 is pretty nice and if it gets LTE I will be getting one just for the heck of it.07-07-14 07:59 PMLike 0 - I hope they do. How hard is it to just print the first and second level symbols on the physical key?! Nothing needs to be change on the SW side...just print them on the physical keys.....maybe we will have to go back to the old days of putting stickers on the keyboard?! that will be so innovative of Blackberry!!!! Getting user to buy and install stickers on keyboard. LOL
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Posted via CB1007-08-14 03:41 AMLike 0 -
- ThunderbuckRetired Moderator
I have no doubt that the development of this keyboard involved dozens--maybe hundreds--of engineers and human factors specialists, and I'm sure they had all the same discussions we're having here.
I'm coming to view the Passport as having not so much a "physical keyboard" as a "virtual keyboard augmented by buttons".
Posted from CB10 running on my awesome Z30 2B6927F707-08-14 10:39 AMLike 0 - ThunderbuckRetired ModeratorI hope BlackBerry does read these forums and realizes how polarized people are about this device. And this is a BlackBerry fan site!! If the people on this site are so divided, then just imagine how the general public (who for the most part doesn't like BlackBerry) is going to react to this device.
I hope BlackBerry comes out with a state of the art awesome looking all touch device soon. In the mean time, The Z3 is pretty nice and if it gets LTE I will be getting one just for the heck of it.
The only open hostility I'm seeing displayed is here on CB.
Posted from CB10 running on my awesome Z30 2B6927F707-08-14 10:41 AMLike 0 -
Posted via CrackBerry App07-08-14 12:26 PMLike 0 - It's a little more than that. For a variety of reasons, people want the large screen, but don't want to be required to type on the glass screen.
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Let the speculation and baseless complaining commence!07-08-14 12:50 PMLike 0 -
It's my keyboard that is gone.
And by the way, the trackpad is a huge step back for the Q10, I drastically reduced the time I type on the phone.
I used to write wall of text, replying on email more from the phone even if I had the PC with Outlook open in front of me.
As you can live without it, you cannot deny the fact that is a big loss and a step down in productivity. They could have resolved all of this with the Passport, reintroducing the trackpad without the toolbelt, but they removed the keyboard.
One small step forward, one giant leap backward.07-08-14 02:28 PMLike 0 -
And the engineers only had to obey to the choice made by people whose job is to make thing look pretty.07-08-14 02:41 PMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1007-08-14 03:51 PMLike 0 - ThunderbuckRetired Moderator
BlackBerry is the "keyboard company". They'd lay off the cleaning staff before they got rid of their human factors engineers.
Posted from CB10 running on my awesome Z30 2B6927F7dejanh likes this.07-08-14 06:30 PMLike 1 - No, the Passport is not just "a huge Q10". The input system is a completely new hybrid physical/touch keyboard system that--if it works--could be revolutionary.
And it's not just the larger screen, either. The Passport's screen is large enough and dense enough to display content in 16:9 vertically or horizontally. The vertical display will eliminate the scaling problems from the Q10 (a fair number of Android apps won't work on the Q10/Q5 just because UI elements wind up outside the window and can't be reached). This is also a fairly distinctive feature; I know I'VE never seen a phone that does this.
And, finally, the Passport looks like no other phone out there right now. The style will certainly attract attention far more than the 9900-like Q10.
Posted via CB1007-08-14 08:09 PMLike 0 -
- ThunderbuckRetired Moderator
Posted from CB10 running on my awesome Z30 2B6927F707-08-14 08:19 PMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1007-08-14 08:38 PMLike 2 -
Posted via CB1007-08-14 08:50 PMLike 0 - Why should they make it "like all other BlackBerry keyboards" if they're essentially inventing a new input method?
I have no doubt that the development of this keyboard involved dozens--maybe hundreds--of engineers and human factors specialists, and I'm sure they had all the same discussions we're having here.
I'm coming to view the Passport as having not so much a "physical keyboard" as a "virtual keyboard augmented by buttons".
Posted from CB10 running on my awesome Z30 2B6927F707-08-14 08:53 PMLike 0
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