BlackBerry Q5 announced

Very good move. BlackBerry is still extremely popular because of BBM. If they can get their OS in the hands of the millions of people who use lower end smartphones (essentially it is the Curve replacement) then there is more reason for developers to develop apps for the platform and therefor more apps, therefor the platform is more attractive for everyone therefor sales increase....
 
Guantanamo said:
Very good move. BlackBerry is still extremely popular because of BBM. If they can get their OS in the hands of the millions of people who use lower end smartphones (essentially it is the Curve replacement) then there is more reason for developers to develop apps for the platform and therefor more apps, therefor the platform is more attractive for everyone therefor sales increase....
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BUT - there is no unlimited BIS........ so why would the millions of umlimited BIS users ditch their OS7 devices in favour of "pay as you use" OS10?
 
flashsa said:
BUT - there is no unlimited BIS........ so why would the millions of umlimited BIS users ditch their OS7 devices in favour of "pay as you use" OS10?
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Actually they have no choice. When the contract is up for OS7, you automatically move to the higher tier plan.
 
flashsa said:
BUT - there is no unlimited BIS........ so why would the millions of umlimited BIS users ditch their OS7 devices in favour of "pay as you use" OS10?
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For the same reason people ditch BlackBerries for competing smartphones: they want something better.
 
According to reports this phone will be cheaper but not cheap like we were used to. Blackberry is making no sense to me any more. Their devices come in at crazy prices and offers nothing special and/or exclusive any more. Soon BBM will be on iOS and Android. No BIS. Just expensive hardware running an OS that must still prove itself. Few apps. Falling market share and market price. Heck ... I don't see this lot surviving another 18 months. Maybe it's time to sell it off to Lenovo who's been giving this acquisition some consideration (no-one else interested).
 
BeVonk! said:
According to reports this phone will be cheaper but not cheap like we were used to. Blackberry is making no sense to me any more. Their devices come in at crazy prices and offers nothing special and/or exclusive any more. Soon BBM will be on iOS and Android. No BIS. Just expensive hardware running an OS that must still prove itself. Few apps. Falling market share and market price. Heck ... I don't see this lot surviving another 18 months. Maybe it's time to sell it off to Lenovo who's been giving this acquisition some consideration (no-one else interested).
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Can you provide me with a link that talks about Lenovos considering acquisition?
 
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