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WES51 Even in the developed word, there is plenty of places out of town (actually in town as well), where signal stregth is low and compression comes pretty handy in speeding things up.
So I don't understand all this bashing.
It works great for me. I'm not seeking anything faster either than my 9900.
I know it helps right now today in areas with only a 2G signal, but BlackBerry have to plan for tomorrow and not live for today as they have been doing for too long.
NOC compression is an ever decreasing 'advantage' as each day ticks by. More and more data transmitted by smartphones is already compressed, the phones have the power to compress and decompress on the fly themselves instead of during transit.
In the UK the 4G rollout will drastically improve signal strength outside of urban areas compared to the 3G roll out of a decade ago because the carrier's have to cover 98% of the UK this time, not the laughable 80% the Government 'forced' them to cover for 3G.
Going forward BIS is a yester-decade solution to a yester-decade problem. BlackBerry are right to embrace modern technology and move on. Carrier pressure to ditch BIS and stop having to pay BlackBerry for something they don't have to pay any other phone manufacturer for keeps BlackBerry aware they have to evolve their business and modernise.
Where BlackBerry are going wrong so far is the execution of this transition and modernisation. 80% of BBOS users don't upgrade to either kind of BlackBerry phone, BBOS or BB10. That's a problem they have to fix fast.
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