blackberry Z10 help please

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RockerGuy said:
Selling of the company & layoffs?

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The company isn't sold, and being sold is not a necessarily a measure of failure. I don't think Shoppers Drug Mart was a failure, for example. And there were more layoffs before BB10 so that hardly tells us BB10 is a flop!

Do you have anything substantial?
 
chiefswallow said:
Any way you slice it, it doesn't look good.

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I doubt it's pending sale, they've probably just gone private: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/09/bl...-dell-in-a-bid-to-refocus-with-less-scrutiny/
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Which market is that a graph of, Newmarket? I was talking worldwide.

Though I agree they are likely going private rather thab anything else.
 
fastar1 said:
The company isn't sold, and being sold is not a necessarily a measure of failure. I don't think Shoppers Drug Mart was a failure, for example. And there were more layoffs before BB10 so that hardly tells us BB10 is a flop!

Do you have anything substantial?
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Low demand for the BlackBerry Z10 has splashed cold water on the company’s hopes for a financial comeback, so Canada’s smartphone maker is now exploring “strategic alternatives” -- including its possible sale.
BlackBerry confirmed this week it was considering whether to look for a new owner, or start a joint venture, as it weighs its options.
“Essentially they’re admitting, to a certain extent, defeat,” said technology analyst Carmi Levy. “They’re not where they want to be in the market, and they need to seek an alternative path.”
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Financially struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry says it may sell itself.

Canadian-based BlackBerry said Monday it would consider a sale or joint ventures and partnerships with other companies. It recently introduced three new versions of its smartphones, but its market share has continued to decline.

BlackBerry once controlled nearly half of the smartphone market in the world, but now its share is less than 3 percent. The market is dominated by wireless companies using Google's Android operating system and Apple's iPhone.

In an effort to regain its financial footing, BlackBerry has laid off 5,000 workers and closed some of its manufacturing plants. The value of the company has declined by more than $70 billion in recent years.
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http://www.voanews.com/content/smartphone-maker-blackberry-may-sell-itself/1728175.html


I doubt there were many BlackBerry Ltd. stockholders around who believed in a return to the glory days of shares in the $140 range.

“While a change in structure could result in a higher stock price in the near term, we do not envision any changes that would help BlackBerry reverse the significant smartphone share loss or rapid decline in service revenues,” analyst Tim Long of BMO Nesbitt Burns said today as the company officially put itself on the auction block.

“BlackBerry saw its market share decline during the quarter, reaching levels not seen in the history of IDC’s Mobile Phone Tracker,” IDC said of the company’s operating system.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...r-sale-smartphone-smart-move/article13708870/

Continue hanging to your sinking ship
 
OP, depending on how you had set up Blackberry Link, you may have already backed up without knowing. You can backup wirelessly when the phone is connected to a power source and on the same wifi network as the computer with BB Link installed. Check your settings.
 
RockerGuy said:
Continue hanging to your sinking ship
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I'm not hanging onto anything, I'm just calling out this latest development as yet another meaningless market temper tantrum because investors can get better returns elsewhere, not because BB is failing. Notice that CPP and OTPP are staying invested, they don't go chasing whims.
Here's where I got the BB market share doubling; http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpcustom=BlackBerry&qpcustomb=1 though frankly I find all these stats highly questionable.

FFS I thought this was the BB10 thread. Why did you have to drag the same old argument into yet another thread?
 
JZ67 said:
OP, depending on how you had set up Blackberry Link, you may have already backed up without knowing. You can backup wirelessly when the phone is connected to a power source and on the same wifi network as the computer with BB Link installed. Check your settings.
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step by step walk through: http://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartphone_users/deliverables/49304/lym1340633979503.jsp
"By default, BlackBerry Link saves your backup files to My Documents\BlackBerry\Backup on your computer. "

worth having a look.
 
I said it before..I was a blackberry user from 99 to this year, bought every new one that came out....got the new q10 and hated it, switched to HTC ONE was much happier....switched to iPhone 5 and I'm totally happy. Everyone in my company except one guy is going from blackberry to iPhone,Samsung or HTC. Sad but the blackberry product is just bad now, first time the new one is worse than the old one. and FWIW I am not an Apple fan and resisted them for years, iPad and Apple TV reeled me in and now iPhone has sold me.
 
sonnythebull said:
I said it before..I was a blackberry user from 99 to this year, bought every new one that came out....got the new q10 and hated it, switched to HTC ONE was much happier....switched to iPhone 5 and I'm totally happy. Everyone in my company except one guy is going from blackberry to iPhone,Samsung or HTC. Sad but the blackberry product is just bad now, first time the new one is worse than the old one. and FWIW I am not an Apple fan and resisted them for years, iPad and Apple TV reeled me in and now iPhone has sold me.
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miss the physical keyboard?


That's the only reason I still carry a 9900.
 
nfq said:
miss the physical keyboard?


That's the only reason I still carry a 9900.
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Man, I'm convinced that the 9900 is still the best phone that I've ever had. I personally think it's better than the q10, but I'm sure that's debatable.

On the topic of OSes and market shares. I went with the Lumia 920 and while the phone itself is amazing, I think Nokia shot themselves in the foot by pairing it with Windows. the windows OS is so much worse than the OS10 that everyone's complaining about. I would understand if it weren't business-user friendly, but it's not even intuitive for non-business use.
 
knowledge said:
Man, I'm convinced that the 9900 is still the best phone that I've ever had. I personally think it's better than the q10, but I'm sure that's debatable.

On the topic of OSes and market shares. I went with the Lumia 920 and while the phone itself is amazing, I think Nokia shot themselves in the foot by pairing it with Windows. the windows OS is so much worse than the OS10 that everyone's complaining about. I would understand if it weren't business-user friendly, but it's not even intuitive for non-business use.
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The hardware keeps them in it, and a lot of people that loved their Symbian devices, can fore-go the Windows OS for things like the Carl Zeiss lensed Camera, unibody construction and Nokia antenna (pentaband, solid and reliable).

If Android was on a Nokia device, that would give samsung a run for it's money and then some.
 
My Z f'n 10 is awesome! As awesome as your <insertFanBoyDevice>!!! Taking the company private or agreeing for sale is not the same as doom and gloom death spiral.
 
Oh stop it, the fried phone thing was addressed in the first couple posts.
Im glad you feel better though!
 
sonnythebull said:
I do but I'm getting used to it. That would be my only complaint and that apple restricts the call blocker app I want
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Have you considered Jail Breaking your iPhone? might make the app available then (or have an alternative app) ?
 
sonnythebull said:
yeah but doesn't apple wipe your phone if they find out you jail broke it?
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I've never personally heard of that happening.
In 'some' cases, the phone has been known to be wiped if you're doing a restore through iTunes (so don't use iTunes :) ). Having a backup will rectify that, it's just whether you want to be bothered with it or not. P0ser (on here somewhere) has good insight on jailbreaking iPhones.
JailBreaking an iPhone has been around as long as iPhones existed. Just another way to use the phone.
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