Originally Posted by
kbz1960 Wow, they joined the touch screen market way back with the Storm then the torch and now the Z. So which one was late?
And the answer is...
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ALL OF THEM!!!
The BlackBerry Storm was half baked, late to market, and offered a solution that no one asked for to the problem of accidentally causing an unintended action with a misplaced tap. The Storm 2 improved the screens click mechanism slightly, but still no one wanted it.
The Torch came out when big touchscreen phones had already taken over the market with a pitifully poor quality, teeny little screen on a big, bulky, underpowered phone. Again, half baked. The torch 2 had a dramatically better quality screen, though still way to small, a much better processor and dedicated graphics chip, but in the exact same big bulky body.
Then there was the Torch 9860 just to confuse people who thought they knew what a Torch was but here comes this other phone called Torch that while had really good ergonomics, had this bizarre plastic screen, no NFC and half the memory of other BBOS 7 phones. This thing would have to survive nearly two years in the market before the Z10 would launch.
No one can argue that the Z10 was on time. BlackBerry themselves admitted to several delays on the Z10. A phone that launched with a 4.2" screen that is the same size as the original Samsung Galaxy S and internals slightly older then the Samsung Galaxy S III in the same year Samsung launched the Galaxy S 4.
So yeah, it's been an ongoing issue at BlackBerry for many years now that the company has been late to the game with devices that we not in line with what the market is looking for.
For the bonus point....
Who was the COO of Research in Motion in charge of devices for all of these failed phones except the Z10 as this same individual had been given a new title within the company by the time of it's launch?
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Thorsten Heins!
