Originally Posted by
benmhall I just got a Sony Z3 Compact as a backup. It's waterproof, so should hold up well at the beach with the summer approaching. It runs Android 6.0 and reminds me a lot of the Z10 once I loaded up Cobalt's BlackBerry APKs from the Priv.
Things I miss so far from the Passport:
- Keyboard
- Play/Pause button when listening to music or podcasts
- The Passport camera (no fooling. I'm get amazing shots out of the Passport)
- Reliable Bluetooth pairing (BlackBerry OS 10 rocks at this)
- BlackBerry OS 10 built-in, native apps
- Some BlackBerry apps. I'm sure there are Android equivalents, but finding anything decent is like looking for a needle in a haystack
I was thinking that I might move to the Z3 for the summer. It's only been a day or two, but I suspect that I'll be using the Passport as my main phone for quite a while yet. The Z3 makes a decent backup, though.
Boy, Cobalt's packaging of BlackBerry's fantastic Android apps make all the difference for making Android usable for me. I sure wish BlackBerry sold their apps separately from the Priv. I think they'd do well if they opened them up to the broader Android device market. I certainly think there would be demand from corporate clients. Of course, it wouldn't help to keep the device business afloat.
Kudos to the BlackBerry programmers, though.
Posted via CB10