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I'm in the same boat as you. If they had released the Q10 first, I would have dismissed the Z. Glad I didn't. Best virtual keyboard. Period. And love the extra screen real estate.
In all fairness though, in my business circles, a couple with the Z just "couldn't get used to typing on glass", and so traded for a Q. Different strokes for different folks.
I got my name for an A10, or whatever they'll call it. A bigger screen would give me the perfect device. Barely use my tablet anymore currently, and a 5" device will put the final nail in the coffin.
I'm actually not sure about the A10.. keeping an open mind, I like to always have the latest and greatest and I want to buy one.. but I think it might be too big for me. I actually think the 4.2 is perfect. I tend to laugh when I see guys holding giant samsung phablets to their heads..
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Dumped my q10. First time with no blackberry since 1999. It was annoying and stupid. As well google does not support the device and I had nothing but problems with email. Got an HTC one and was able to figure it all out immediately. Super user friendly and lots of cool features . The spam marker right from email and the call blocking apps are very cool. I'm getting used to a virtual keyboard but that is my only complaint
You must have good eyesight still, i started my andriod time with a nexus one that had a 3.? screen, at the time is was amazing, then my ability to read the text started to go down hill, had a galaxy nexus 4.7 screen that died, got a galaxy note 5.3 screen and it felt too big, traded it back to rogers within the time limit and got a htc one x 4.7 again, realized my eyesight for reading was getting worse and the note was looking like a good option again
traded it back for a note.Have the note 2 now and am super happy with it, i can read anything on the screen and it fits in any pocket (that i own at least)
as long as i only need glasses for reading, the phablet is the only phone for me, maybe it will be different if i end up with bifocals, but till then
I wasn't a big fan of the Q10 either. I was used to the Bold 9900 and kept going to hit the back button or BB Buttons and it didn't work for me. I switched back to a Z10 pretty quickly. There are a few guys who sit around me that like it a lot, but I haven't had anyone (family, friends) complain about their Z10 yet.
Disclaimer: I'm a BlackBerry employee.
So are you out looking for a new job?
Maybe Sunny S can get you in where he is. It's usually a position for a highschool kid looking to make some money over the summer and an option to working in a call center but it requires no skill and they will take just about anyone. All you have to do is show up.
Sunny S:
You just got finished saying the A10 will be another clone phone or cheap knock off of whatever the Apple or Samsung is and I totally agree. The Z10 was a poor copy of the outdated S3 and old iPhone so it only makes sense that the A10 will be a poor copy of the S4 and new iPhone but, wouldn't it be smarter to sell it for next to nothing?
I mean, a "Chinese knock off" product isn't purchased for it's quality, dependability or really any other reason than it's cheap and third world income types can afford it.
Wouldn't it be better for BBRY to ask next to nothing for next to nothing?
Serious question.
No shame in admitting they can't get a product to market until the have bought the competitions phones and reverse engineered them.
The S4 sold 10 million phones in 27 days and is only going up. BBRY had two phones (one of them coming out with no competition) and still failed to deliver to it's supposed international market. It's now being told by the "experts" to cut it's production or end up with a warehouse full of useless junk.
Why not try to salvage whats left by giving them away?
At least then they might be able to move some product.
awyala
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So are you out looking for a new job?
Maybe Sunny S can get you in where he is. It's usually a position for a highschool kid looking to make some money over the summer and an option to working in a call center but it requires no skill and they will take just about anyone. All you have to do is show up.
Sunny S:
You just got finished saying the A10 will be another clone phone or cheap knock off of whatever the Apple or Samsung is and I totally agree. The Z10 was a poor copy of the outdated S3 and old iPhone so it only makes sense that the A10 will be a poor copy of the S4 and new iPhone but, wouldn't it be smarter to sell it for next to nothing?
I mean, a "Chinese knock off" product isn't purchased for it's quality, dependability or really any other reason than it's cheap and third world income types can afford it.
Wouldn't it be better for BBRY to ask next to nothing for next to nothing?
Serious question.
No shame in admitting they can't get a product to market until the have bought the competitions phones and reverse engineered them.
The S4 sold 10 million phones in 27 days and is only going up. BBRY had two phones (one of them coming out with no competition) and still failed to deliver to it's supposed international market. It's now being told by the "experts" to cut it's production or end up with a warehouse full of useless junk.
Why not try to salvage whats left by giving them away?
At least then they might be able to move some product.
Moving a ton of cow pies for next to nothing did nothing for the Playbook. They had no choice but to hedge all their bets on reverse engineered copy cat phones to buy them time to then innovate. They have 6 months to come out with an improvement on the S4, Note 3 or iPhones new itteration. My guess is if they can reverse engineer inside 3 months of either of their releases they stand a chance of a slooooooooooooow slogged out recovery to becoming a player again. But then again, who is kidding who, it will take no less than a year to copy what the competition releases. Their only hope is that iPhone fizzles, and the S4 and Note3 are only minor improvements. The S4 was no game changer but it did consolidate Samsung's market share further which is still bad news for BB. But it does give BB a little more time to copy existing tech and then innovate.
If BB can innovate in 6 months they stand a chance.
If BB innovate in a year with only minor tweaks the market won't take much notice.
With the stagnation of Apple, the market is waiting for the next big thing, all the while Samsung slowly creeps ahead in both tech and market share on sheer exposure.
Glass and the new Apple watch may be the gateway to that new innvoation or may be niche flops...but at least they are pushing boundaries while BB struggles to tread water.
It's almost a parallel to the TV market at the moment. No one is breaking through with any new tech, just inching ahead with (literally) inches (thinner and wider screens). The 3D tech seems to have been a diversion, and Bluray is not blasting ahead in the format wars, especially with talk of 4k resolution. Everything seems to be coming to a holding pattern while useful tech is either appreciated by the public, or someone breaks through with a clear game changer.
Personally I think the next tech innovating is car intergration and transparent 3d screen interfaces that Samsung and Windows are currently developing. Transparent 3D interfaces could theoretically make any palm sized screen appear to the be the size of your entire field of vision. Couple that with Glass tech and 4k resolution on small screens and you have the future game changer.....but judging by the prototypes and Glass' recent reviews that is 10 years away.
BB need to have 2 streams of product lines: 1) the immediate copy and innovate, churn them out every 6 months, line, and 2) the long game R&D line similar to Google Glass and Samsung transparent and bendable screens.
blah, blah blah, blah blah blah......
At least then they might be able to move some product.
:lol: BlackBerry comeback continues on reports of strong sales.
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awyala
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Read Sunny's posted report.
4 million units of the Z10 and 1 million of the Q10 sold in the last quarter. That's the entire BB stable and it took a quarter to match ONLY HLAF of what 1 Samsung product made in less than a month. If the physical keyboard is the bread and butter of BB than we have seen that core portion of their business almost entirely eroded. Now they face the uphill battle of being a better touch screen phone than Samsung or Apple. BB essentially has no unique characteristic or defining property left, no niche. They simply HAVE TO BE BETTER than the competition.
And they aren't. They update slower, copy slower, don't innovate, and have no style cache less of course in the eyes of some Mid Easters, who (speaking as an Arab myself) lead the word in ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEERO product innovations or trends....aside from shipping in foreign brains and brawn to purchase a few towers and infrastructure.
However this does all look pretty decent for a buy out. Perhaps MS could still buy them and sell the NSA a backdoor to BBM...there is some value in spying in on some Wallstreet and Arab oil sheikh types.
NSA spend $80 billion per year on spying, why not subsidize MS to gobble up BB the way they did for Skype.
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I dislike Apple for various reasons, but that doesn't make any sense. They are the ones who completely changed the market with the iphone.
As for your link, if you really want to run android apps, you can just buy an android phone rather than jump through hoops (see link you posted) and achieve something that may have various issues due to it not being a native app anyway.
Why would you do that to yourself?
Well enough. It's a short term pump and dump stock. It gets hyped by it's fanboys, rises a bit, then falls back to nothing.
Drop it on the twats that think it's going to suddenly rocket into space.
I have my expectations for mid summer and I'll act on them accordingly.
other than that I don't GAF.
My phone is going on 4 years old and I couldn't care less what's trending amoungst hipsters or people that buy dad phones.
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:lol: Samsung
:lol: Samsung
