blackberry 10

Good new BB10.2 feature: Priority Hub. The Hub was always a good thing, but now it parses the notifications (based on your usage patterns) and separates the important ones (that I have to respond to) from the general (and mostly useless) facebook notifications, text messages, pointless emails,etc. And it distills the messages down to the essence. Today it converted a lengthy voicemail into "Serge wants you to call him back" and gave me the phone number (which is clickable).

For a business user (me) ... this is a great feature.
 
Brian P said:
Good new BB10.2 feature: Priority Hub. The Hub was always a good thing, but now it parses the notifications (based on your usage patterns) and separates the important ones (that I have to respond to) from the general (and mostly useless) facebook notifications, text messages, pointless emails,etc. And it distills the messages down to the essence. Today it converted a lengthy voicemail into "Serge wants you to call him back" and gave me the phone number (which is clickable).

For a business user (me) ... this is a great feature.
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Give it a month when it learns your habits. Similar to how the keyboard learns 'how you type and how you speak', the priority hub will 'learn' what is important. (so says a knowledgeable friend of mine that knows BB)
 
Brian P said:
Good new BB10.2 feature: Priority Hub. The Hub was always a good thing, but now it parses the notifications (based on your usage patterns) and separates the important ones (that I have to respond to) from the general (and mostly useless) facebook notifications, text messages, pointless emails,etc. And it distills the messages down to the essence. Today it converted a lengthy voicemail into "Serge wants you to call him back" and gave me the phone number (which is clickable).

For a business user (me) ... this is a great feature.
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BB10 has tonnes of great features (hub feature, second to none keyboard, snappy browser, and so on)

Its a shame the marketing dept is asleep at the wheel.
 
meme said:
Yup, how dare he!

Interesting to see all the BBM requests from the iPhone users. I giggled when I saw a few, just because they bashed BlackBerry so hard.

It's a phone, I will buy mine, you buy yours and life goes on.
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exactly, I had considered blackberry just for BBM at one point but decided I don't like the interface. if the phone doesn't work the way you like it why should you buy it because it works how some one else likes it? that would be like taking it the butt because some one else likes it in the butt.
 
SunnY S said:
BB10 has tonnes of great features (hub feature, second to none keyboard, snappy browser, and so on)

Its a shame the marketing dept is asleep at the wheel.
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In this day and age, you can build the best OS, but if you don't have quality third party apps, you're not going anywhere. Look at Windows Phone, don't think I've read one bad review about the actual OS, the Nokia phones are definitely nice enough. At the end of the day though, they have an almost zero app marketplace which eliminates them as an option for the majority of interested buyers. The obvious Catch 22, if you don't have enough users, most companies won't bother paying attention to your platform.
 
CruisnGrrl said:
exactly, I had considered blackberry just for BBM at one point but decided I don't like the interface. if the phone doesn't work the way you like it why should you buy it because it works how some one else likes it? that would be like taking it the butt because some one else likes it in the butt.
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Brian P said:
Good new BB10.2 feature: Priority Hub. The Hub was always a good thing, but now it parses the notifications (based on your usage patterns) and separates the important ones (that I have to respond to) from the general (and mostly useless) facebook notifications, text messages, pointless emails,etc. And it distills the messages down to the essence. Today it converted a lengthy voicemail into "Serge wants you to call him back" and gave me the phone number (which is clickable).

For a business user (me) ... this is a great feature.
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From my experience, it doesn't work that well. I rarely used it as a result.
 
regder said:
In this day and age, you can build the best OS, but if you don't have quality third party apps, you're not going anywhere. .
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Sad but true, and seems to be the case.

Having said that, I have 8 pages of apps on my phone, and once the novelty of trying a new app wears off, it rarely if ever gets used again. I rarely get past page 2 on my phone anymore.

Whatever the case, seems despite BB's current plight, some big name apps are still coming. Flipboard was just officially released, TSN app, Reddit app was just released and others arrive weekly.

There are two different guys working on an instagram app for BB10 by using reverse engineering. They should be out soon. And will be fun to compare the two.
 
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SunnY S said:
Sad but true, and seems to be the case.

Having said that, I have 8 pages of apps on my phone, and once the novelty of trying a new app wears off, it rarely if ever gets used again. I rarely get past page 2 on my phone anymore.

Whatever the case, seems despite BB's current plight, some big name apps are still coming. Flipboard was just officially released, TSN app, Reddit app was just released and others arrive weekly.

There are two different guys working on an instagram app for BB10 by using reverse engineering. They should be out soon. And will be fun to compare the two.
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Who says BB marketing department is asleep? :rolleyes:

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SunnY S said:
Sad but true, and seems to be the case.

Having said that, I have 8 pages of apps on my phone, and once the novelty of trying a new app wears off, it rarely if ever gets used again. I rarely get past page 2 on my phone anymore.

Whatever the case, seems despite BB's current plight, some big name apps are still coming. Flipboard was just officially released, TSN app, Reddit app was just released and others arrive weekly.

There are two different guys working on an instagram app for BB10 by using reverse engineering. They should be out soon. And will be fun to compare the two.
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Can't you just "side load" the Android apps? I don't own any BB devices so I have no idea how that works but all my friends at Blackberry keep insisting the BB OS can run pretty much anything under the sun. Surprised I haven't heard you can put Windows on it yet, if you want. lol
 
Well it's not available for me at work, and certainly not in the area I live. So for me to go hang out somewhere for wi-fi when I have unlimited data is a bit of an issue for me.
 
meme said:
Well it's not available for me at work, and certainly not in the area I live. So for me to go hang out somewhere for wi-fi when I have unlimited data is a bit of an issue for me.
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I'd be annoyed, too. If I can't do literally EVERYTHING on my phone without wifi or needing to connect it to a PC, I'm not interested.
 
meme said:
Well it's not available for me at work, and certainly not in the area I live. So for me to go hang out somewhere for wi-fi when I have unlimited data is a bit of an issue for me.
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Come hang out at my house:)

Bring coffee.
 
Jayv said:
Come hang out at my house:)

Bring coffee.
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Or he could get a 2nd phone, set up a wifi hot spot on it, and use that to update the first phone. Do the opposite to update the other one. That's assuming BB supports wifi hot spots.
 
unL33T said:
Or he could get a 2nd phone, set up a wifi hot spot on it, and use that to update the first phone. Do the opposite to update the other one. That's assuming BB supports wifi hot spots.
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It does. And that could work. It will let you update the OS without a SIM inside the phone.
 
nfq said:
It does. And that could work. It will let you update the OS without a SIM inside the phone.
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Pretty silly way to go about it though, heh.
 
unL33T said:
Pretty silly way to go about it though, heh.
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It's unfortunate that they have to play to the lowest common denominator. It's easier to ban large file downloads over cellular instead of getting complaints how everyone gets overage charges when they download a 500+MB game or update.

In their app store (BB world) you can turn off the wifi only feature so it allows you to download files larger than 50MB. Looks like with the OTA updates though it's restricted (but for some reason isn't on Rogers).

Edit: If you take it in to any carrier store (Rogers, Bell, Telus) they can do the software update for you in store.
 
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