[Saiga]

I know freaking battery is AWESOME . I go 12 hours off charger with 55%
battery left and no wifi only LTE. I went 2 days without charging BB is no longer the king of the battery. Plus I love the wireless charger

Yep, you can use it as hard as you want and no matter what, it will last a full work day with plenty of juice to spare afterwards. My screen shot was taken admittedly after light use (I have so many smartphones that it is hard to use just one of them constanty), but one day my kids played hours worth of Minecraft and barely moved the battery gauge. Motorola's claims of 48 hours of use per charge is no lie.

[BoldPreza]

It's the end I feel as I don't see them sticking to hardware in any meaningful way anymore. I'm hopeful they find a good way to operate profitably in the future but kind of glad as well.

Oh well still love my Z10, won't be getting the Z30 and now I'm open to any number of other options.

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[louzer]

I really like my Droid MAXX as well.

Here is something any smartphone fan should be able to appreciate:

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That's amazing. I'm all about battery life. You can't play Angry Birds if your battery is dead. I'm seeing very impressive battery life on my Q10 (although nothing like your image is showing).

[irweezyy]

Actually they have announced things are going to change, they've announced they're trying to sell the company, have exited the consumer market, have cancelled future hardware development... that's change, it's just not good change.

"Exited the consumer market"? Not sure where you read that, unless your assuming that this is what they meant when they wrote "refocusing on enterprise"

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[katiepea]

"Exited the consumer market"? Not sure where you read that, unless your assuming that this is what they meant when they wrote "refocusing on enterprise"

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Here's how this plays out. BlackBerry scales phone production back so that there isn't an excess on shelves, they chop the price to sell the inventory they have, the "refocusing" out of the consumer market completely depletes any future developers from developing apps for the platform as that is a consumer market. Inventory is nearly gone, the platform is at a total standstill, maybe occasional updates to the software. The sales die down, there's only a market for 1-3 million phones a quarter hardware wise, it no longer becomes a viable business for BlackBerry to continue making hardware (already at that point). This makes them more appealing to purchase, they've shed excess inventory, they've shed a large amount of staff, they're left with mostly a software operation and legacy enterprise solutions (mostly IP). As for whatever positives there are, BlackBerry expects to pull in second quarter revenue of $1.6 billion (about �998m/AU$1.7b) and sales of 3.7 million smartphones. Sadly, most of the smartphones recognized in that figure run the older BlackBerry 7 OS. Did you get that? The platform that BlackBerry said they needed to survive has failed, in a few months it will have been out for a year and the legacy OS is currently outselling the new one, despite the new one having 3 new handsets currently, millions of them sitting on shelves unsold, and the legacy having 1 new handset in the past 3 years. They played their hand and they lost the bet.

Everything I just described is what is in motion, it's also what every single company would do if they're selling the company, which they are. There really just isn't an angle where they keep making phones. If they don't sell they'll be a niche market for enterprise, if they do sell, whoever buys them will not continue the hardware division as it is not profitable whatsoever. It's a lose lose for the consumer period.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackb...191514060.html

http://www.neowin.net/news/blackberr...onsumer-market

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/20/47...and-enterprise

http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/20/bl...nsumer-market/

http://www.androidauthority.com/blac...market-271640/

http://wmpoweruser.com/the-end-of-no...nsumer-market/

Every single source reporting on this reads it the same way, that blackberry is leaving the consumer market and conceding that it is over.

[damien kupuku]

Long live BB!
I am getting the z30!

BB Z10 Rocks!

I Will pick one too, even press,people bashing bbry all the Day, i like the phone, i Will get for sure the powerfull Z30

My Q10 rocks

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[chr1sny]

I honestly expected the original post to simply say "you were right".

Between the longs and the shorts aka"trolls", one camp was clearly right more often than the other.