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janhsmn I am in the UK and I have had blackberrys now for a number of years, recently two bolds and foolishly went out and bought a blackberry z10 sim free for rather a lot of money as I was still in contract for my bold. The foolish part being shortly afterwards the phone stores started giving them away almost. I love the Z10, and OS10 the hub is brilliant, as always the messaging facilities are excellent. Battery life is not so good and I knew about the problems with apps but am generally not an app person.
My dilemma is my contract is now up for renewal, I could drop to sim only and save quite a bit of cash keeping the Z10 or I could upgrade to the Z30 mainly for the better battery life which would cost me an extra �3 a month to my current contract. Or finally leave blackberry and look elsewhere.
I suppose the issue is am I going to drop another clanger if I go for the Z30 as that could drop like a rocket again in price or worse end up not being supported given blackberrys uncertain future and I am left with an expensive contact and a worthless phone. But I don't know what is out there that I would like.
I did try a nokia lumia and took it back after two days. I like the flashing notification led on a blackberry, the ease at which it handles emails text and bbm. The new swipe method of navigation is excellent. I use an ipad as a tablet and find navigation is not as good. Also the screen on an iphone is small. I have concerns about security with Android and again don't know if any work in a similar way to a blackberry. Also the resale value of blackberrys is appalling compared to some android phones and definitely iphones so once you commit you are potentially not going to recoup your losses is something happens.
I know I can load android apps onto blackberry now but again understand not all of them work.
Alternatively I could just wait for another 6 months and see what happens. Aaaaghh decisions. Anyone else facing this dilemma and what have you done.
Janet