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BlackBerry class is different than others
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I love android than blackberry 
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I have to say Android is my favorite also out of all of them.
It reminds of the good old DOS days in a way where you could write or put anything on your PC without being dictated what you could or could not do with a device you bought outright.
In a way, Android is like the old wild west - and if you want to do something with it - you're not shackled by a middleman trying to score their cut before you can install something.
Google / Samsung win big with Droid - and so does the customer.
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BB is out, it should now come with some surprise package, then only can hold a position. If it continue same way, will become history soon.
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Only if it, and the blender, are both free.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It might be nice for people who wants to look business personal.
It has got same old boring look. And when you don't want physical keyboard, why to even bother for BB. 
There are hell lot of options...
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I wouldn't be surprised if BB would suddenly come with a flashy new something
I don't use BB for a while now, but the old BB Bold I had back then, was actually a great piece for the market at that time.
What's the Object-Oriented way to get rich?
Cheees,
Edo
modified 5-Feb-13 3:22am.
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I would always prefer android
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those numbers are pretty bad...
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Yeah, I didn't know they had so much market share.
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I certainly hope not, but I afraid I'm might be. 
modified 5-Feb-13 12:21pm.
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It works.
All the time.
The only failure I have had needed a new battery - now it's fine.
I make calls, I read books on it, I keep notes and contact info, I sync it and back it up to my PC.
I have a little music on it but I don't play it - not that I can't, I just don't want to.
I take pictures and occasionally video with it - usually for unexpected things. (For planned photography I have a Canon Digital Rebel with a huge memory card and even bigger battery pack).
It recharges through a standard USB cable.
It has an actual keyboard not one of those swipe it up, down, left, right and then up again stupid, unresponsive touch screens.
It displays what I want in handy, easily read and understood text menus not a bunch of (designed by seemingly 6-year-old marketing idiots) mysterious icons that I have to swipe or poke at with my large fingers.
It doesn't run iOS, Jam Sandwich (or whatever food it is named after this week) or Windows 8 or other bloatware.
It just works; all the time. Give me one good reason to change.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Me tooo. 
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Forogar wrote: It recharges through a standard USB cable.
Nowadays, only Apple are resisting the call to use standard USB charging. That's the idiocacy tax I guess.
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I wouldn't want the Blackberry or monthly bill to keep it running . . . Even Though it means my emails wouldn't say "Sent from my Blackberry".
DOUBLE DITTO: "Sent from my iPhone".
No cutsy wootsy tiny widdle keyboard for me.
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Erm no
I had a BB and the thing just fell apart - and I look after my phones pretty well. I lost count of the number of times when it just did random weird stuff, or totally refused to play ball or send emails.
A friend of mine went through about 7 in a year due to various things failing and or breaking - and he wasn't the only one I knew of.
It was a running joke we had with anyone who owned one -
"You got a Blackberry?"
"Yeah"
"What number is that then?"
"It's the fifth"
I would never would buy a BB again - which is a shame, because I actually think that for business use (emails etc) they were pretty good (when it worked).
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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... currently my door is pretty closed to BB.
I've been a BB user for almost 4 years and at the time I liked the concept.
It reminded me the old Nokia phones that just worked. No issues, no nothing, just plain phone with great messaging capabilities, 2 or 3 games for the fun and that's it.
Now I've been using Android for some years and I find it pretty hard to roll back as I also find it really hard for RIM to come up with something that will make me leave the Android ecosystem.
I kind of think the same way about Apple... and as I would only change from Android to Apple if something chaotic happened, less likely I will even consider having a BB again as my main connection device.
P.S.: if a customer pays me to develop native Apps on BB I'll be glad to do it anyway
Cheers!
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Because that is what they gave me for work.
Only use it for email and occasional voice calls.
It is shite.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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Too little, too late - after the recent "problems" I guess they just haven't done enough to woo back the faithful.
Ok, 70 odd people is a small sample, but less then 12% willing? Oh dear...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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There are still many companies and particulars attached to long term contracts.
If that's the case then at least you should be willing to try the next possible next thing!
Anyway, I'm sure there are some people willing to give RIM a try even if they're not obliged to it... I'm also sure RIM did a good market survey before playing this card. It won't survive another flop in such short time.
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AlexCode wrote: It won't survive another flop in such short time
That's the whole point I think - it's not so much it won't survive another flop, as it needed a massive success to bring back it's loyal customer base. It's market share is in the gutter, and just "not failing" this time isn't enough to pull people away from the alternatives they had to find last year.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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You're right.
I see this RIM story as a lesson not to forget.
They had a huge client base (huge and loyal), the product was good enough at the time (even if already outdated it was a good product), their idea of upgrading the OS was good but, at the end, really poor execution, no fallback plan (at least that actually worked) and a very absent client support (maybe because there was actually nothing that could be done) led this huge company to discredit and maybe worse than that, to no one really care about them anymore.
The press only seeks for blood when you read the news, device comparison never give any advantage... I think, like you said, it's too late for them.
It's a pity to see a company like this fall due poor technical skills.
Even Nokia...
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AlexCode wrote: I see this RIM story as a lesson not to forget.
Everyone will forget.
Remember the Perrier Problem in 1990?
Prior to finding benzene in it's water, Perrier had 95% of the global market for bottled water.
Because they never listened to their technical people, they had no way to identify which bottles, or cases, or shipments might have been affected. As a result, they tried to cover it up (RIM, anyone?) and then had to recall every bottle of Perrier worldwide. As a result, people bought from ther local competition, and never went back. After the dust settled, they had less than 10% of the market share, and the company has never recovered.
This caused companies world-wide to go "Gulp! Can this happen to us?" and a massive explosion in the Coding and Marking market in the early 90's. And I know that it has saved at least one company from the same fate: a UK biscuit manufacturer had a flour filter break, releasing fragments into the mixture between frequent inspections.
Because they had listened, and coded to line and minute of production, they were able to get on the phone, and recall every single affected biscuit by turning the lorries they were in around and bringing them back to base!
I think RIM has done a Perrier. And I'll be amazed if they survive, let alone get back to where they were.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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