It drives me nuts when I can't tell if people are serious. "" the lifestyle" which is Blackberry"???????
It drives me nuts when I can't tell if people are serious. "" the lifestyle" which is Blackberry"???????
I'm disappointed that you would piggy back on that phrase
when factually I was using the term in a general sense.
Maybe the improper word for the occasion but you get my drift mate.
BB is a brand,it's a culture, it's a lifestyle accept it or not but every
major wireless company spends hundred of thousands and even millions per year to drawn in a specific kind of consumer, as consumes we are essentially buying into a lifestyle.
It's a phone.
I generally like to agree with people but not at the cost of denying
the truth....To keep it short and sweet if it was simply a phone
we wouldn't have a forum like CB which allows us to discuss
a variety of topics. The lack of apps is a topic probably most
discussed amongst the CB forum,which in effect would tell you
these simply aren't phones. They're mini cpu's...I'm sorry for
answering you this way but I must be clear about my POV.
You can count on that... :-)
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Blackberry was a lifestyle many years ago. I would disagree that it is any more. A niche at best.
As far as productivity, to each their own. Since 99.7% of the world is being pretty productive without a Blackberry, that argument doesn't hold water. A person is productive, their choice of phone is merely one tool of many they use to meet their expectations.
Posted via CB10
As long as BlackBerry makes a PKB phone it will have me as a customer. Of course I would prefer having a choice between a Android based version and BB10 version. BB10 would more than likely win out for me.
Sent from my BlackBerry Passport.
Go hybrid and try the Passport!
: )
(silver edition? , haha)
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And maybe some or many won't.
OK so what if a business wants people to ahead a Cisco Jabber client in the phone for voice and VTC access to the mobile workforce? Is this not productivity? What about a full and capable Microsoft Office Suite (Docs to Go isn't that)? There are tons of business and productivity apps available in the other platforms that allow the users of those apps to be productive beyond email, which those other phones can do too. A $600 phone has to be able to do far more than just email and BBM in today's business environment, and BlackBerry's competition can do both of those things now anyway.
Posted via Z30
Phone, mini-CPU whatever; it isn't a lifestyle. What does lifestyle even mean in this context? The bottom line is that BB devices are missing or very limited in important productivity apps. If you define productivity as checking email, BB is okay. Much more than that and they are avery limited.
Anything else > Android + Keyboard
(And I love the keyboard)
Not I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Passport is not available at my carrier, I have never even seen one in person. And the Classic looks like a sick little puppy compared the the beautiful slab phones like the Note 4 and the LG G4.
Sorry. A keyboard is exactly what will make me LEAVE blackberry! I found a new Android phone today that I will buy if there will be no successor to my Z30.
Dam...I sure hope your drive to 100K post count will not be affected...
The keyboard is helpful. It could help the device live longer than other touchscreen devices. BB should really keep this going.
Ikr! Soooo tempted. Gorgeous device. Love my Classic tho. Darn phone is tough. Abused and used, lol.
Posted via CB10
There is certainly a market for physical KB. I believe that market is very very small. Now I could be wrong and seeing as Physical keyboard phones running BB10 have proven to not sell very well there is only one way to see if you are correct and that is make a android or IPhone with one. I just don't see how BB can survive on the physical keyboard market alone. They need to cater to both markets.
They won't last nearly that long. No cell phone that doesn't support VoLTE is going to survive the demise of 2G (scheduled for about 2017), because all call and SMS traffic will have to move to VoLTE at that time.
At one time, EVERY Android phone had a keyboard, but once all-touch (no keyboard) phones were released (really starting with the Galaxy S), customers overwhelmingly chose the all-touch over the keyboard phones, and sales of keyboard phones dried up. Today, only a tiny handful of keyboard Android phones exist, and sales for them are low, though the niche does exist.
The point, though, is that when consumers had a choice, they chose all-touch over keyboards, until keyboards were no longer financially viable. It wasn't that manufacturers stopped supporting keyboards - it was customers who did that, by voting with their wallets.
Yes, I will do!
Sent from my BlackBerry Passport
Originally Posted by Shuswap
Sorry to hijack the thread and return to the original topic, but I'm not sure I'd stay for an android phone. I'd likely just use my BlackBerries until the carriers retire 4G.
By "retire 4G" I meant LTE. As I understand it, my Q10 has voice over LTE capability, does it not? Besides that, I live in Canada, and the transition schedule is undoubtedly different.
I still very much prefer the physical keyboard, but the 9900 I'm using now has a lot of malfunctioning keys, including the lock and volume buttons. *sigh* But I will still make the big leap to full-touch screen this year. Why? The Classic looks very similar to 9900, and for now I want something different. Q10 and Q5—I just don't feel like using them; Passport is a little pricey for someone clumsy like me who frequently drops her phone (and it's too big for me). So I guess Z30 will do the trick. But if they still continue releasing phones with physical keyboards in the future, I will definitely buy them. But for now, I'll just stick to my 9900. :)
i was looking back at old posts and saw this old one. to me, blackberry is primarily defined by THE KEYBOARD
I wish my BB10 OSK lived up to the hype.
I'm constantly hitting the wrong character, it lags behind as it's slow to predict words and will often put the wrong word on the space bar to be auto-selected.
On the upside, it's great to have a keyboard where a long-press generates an upper-case letter. What other platform does that?
I can't believe I started this thread over two years ago.