blackberry 10

Finally bought a Z10 for myself and the wife this weekend. No regerts going keyboardless. Great phone.
 
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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?
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For the same reason people jail break iphones?
 
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Anyone know what's going on with the BB10 update for the Playbook? Is it still supposed to come out or did BB bail on it?
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This is one of those mysteries like Apple TV. Its coming, its not coming. When? How? Whats taking so long?
 
On Lang and Oleary tonight....mobile devices in the US that run Google OS: 49%, Apple OS: 41%, BB: 1% (down from 5% last year).

Still think QNX is the future?
 
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On Lang and Oleary tonight....mobile devices in the US that run Google OS: 49%, Apple OS: 41%, BB: 1% (down from 5% last year).

Still think QNX is the future?
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Ok, I'll bite.

The rollout in the US isn't finished yet as the Q10 isn't fully released. They are focusing on their core markets such as UK, Canada and Middle East where they are enjoying tremendous success. Smart, very smart.

Remember, we aren't dealing with a 5th generation iphone, or 4th generation Samsung here..... but a 6 month old, first generation brand spanking new platform.

For 6 months old platform from a reborn company, and starting from scratch, not too shabby.......

BlackBerry 10 still going strong, expected to ship 14 million devices this year



When Samsung can impress us with their lame in-house Bada OS instead of borrowing off of Google, then come and post back.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23097579

Looks bleak. $84mil in loses the last quarter with projected loses into the next quarter. And they wont release the sold unit stats for the Z10. Looks reeeeal bleak. A lot of make-up on this pig to make it look pretty for sale.

So who made out like a bandit shorting this through the last mini hype rally?

BB at $11.10 !!!!!! Breaking $20 has become the dream too far for them, forget about recovering to $70 or even their $150 high.
 
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http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/06/28/rim-short-sellers-are-happy-campers/

Get this 33 percent of BB shares are borrowed (by shorters) and of the shares available for borrowing 75 percent are already borrowed. Are we done with shorters piling into BB? Is there more to squeeze out of the company?

Either way this fall wasn't the doing of shorters. The stock may have been hyped but if you remove that from the equation BB is exactly where it was in terms of stock as BEFORE BB10 / Z10 launch!!!! There is no substantiated hype based on the product or company itself! BB can do nothing to turn itself around now. It's over. No tricks left. The rest of the year might see a slow sombre rise to $15 but more for the purpose of valuing assets for sale than anything BB can offer in terms of new products. Now that the shorters will move on, we may see some true value and some solid posturing for a buy out.

I gave it 6 months to a year in my January prediction.....here we are.....buy out time.

PS where is my Playbook BB10 update? Yeah thought so!
 
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awyala said:
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/06/28/rim-short-sellers-are-happy-campers/

Get this 33 percent of BB shares are borrowed (by shorters) and of the shares available for borrowing 75 percent are already borrowed. Are we done with shorters piling into BB? Is there more to squeeze out of the company?

Either way this fall wasn't the doing of shorters. The stock may have been hyped but if you remove that from the equation BB is exactly where it was in terms of stock as BEFORE BB10 / Z10 launch!!!! There is no substantiated hype based on the product or company itself! BB can do nothing to turn itself around now. It's over. No tricks left. The rest of the year might see a slow sombre rise to $15 but more for the purpose of valuing assets for sale than anything BB can offer in terms of new products. Now that the shorters will move on, we may see some true value and some solid posturing for a buy out.

I gave it 6 months to a year in my January prediction.....here we are.....buy out time.

PS where is my Playbook BB10 update? Yeah thought so!
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see post 801 re short positions.
They aren't even bothering to buy shares back, even with the 25% hit Betty is taking today. Go figure.
The Playbook and any updates have been kicked to the curb. Might be the best move they've made in 6 yrs?
Back to being a 1 trick pony (a ****ing phone), with a large "For Sale" sign on the back of the cart. :rolleyes:
Unlike Samsung, Betty is UNABLE to produce other fantastic products, such a fridges. (I owned one - sadly I sold it with the house - would buy one again in a heartbeat).
Just a matter of time & money until Qualcomm sinks their teeth into Betty. (IMO)
 
Disappointing, fo shure.

However, this proves just how competitive and tough this market space is. HTC, Nokia, Windows phone and even Apple (in some markets, and their stock dipped below $400 again) are taking a beating.

Windows phone has been on the market for about 3.5years and still hasn't gained much traction. BB has only been released since March 2013! Todays Q1 results are strictly Z10 sales (as the Q10 and Q5 numbers aren't in this quarter), and note the Z10 still isn't fully launched in every country yet (just released in Mexico yesterday!)

Ditching BB10 for the PlayBook is absolutely brilliant.

Samsung makes good hardware. But when they can make an equally impressive in house OS (a la BB and Apple, then I will start paying more attention. But for now, their home Bada OS is garbage, and they have to rely on Android.

As for BB, these are still early days..... 3 more devices still yet to be released, 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies have ordered, downloaded or installed BES10, and just yesterday, it was announced that Whirlpool Corp and BDO are now counted among the companies now deploying BB10.

At best, BB will remain a niche player in the market, or get swallowed up by potentials (Lenovo and increasingly, Sony is being mentioned).

BB10 is a great platform. If people want to keep using outdated and boring iOS, or malware riddled Android, who am I to stop them?
 
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I think my z10 just **** itself. Not reading sim card, installed sim card into the ole faithful Iphone and it works :(
 
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Jayv said:
I think my z10 just **** itself. Not reading sim card, installed sim card into the ole faithful Iphone and it works :(
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And this is a great reason why everyone should back up their phone regularly using BB Link with a PC or Mac.

I had a dead pixel on my Z10, carrier gave me a brand new loaner Z, and I simply redownloaded all my OS, contacts, email in its most current form back to the loaner Z and carried on as if nothing ever changed until I got my Z back.
 
I just tried Sideloading some Android apps on my Z10..... works reasonably well.

So far Chrome, Google Maps and some Android games. Unfortunately, it won't work with the ones that demand an update or download from the start, but there's a lot of trial and error. Some work, most don't.

http://crackberry.com/how-put-android-apps-your-blackberry-10-device got me started.

There's a link in there somewhere that brings you to a APK to BAR converter.... but I'm still trying to find which apps I want to convert and which will work. Netflix sort of works, it's just really laggy and takes forever to load. But some standard games (Angry Birds, Cut The Rope, Canabalt, Emulators) do work fine.
 
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