BlackBerry to stop making its own phones

[Jan]

BlackBerry will stop making its own phones

BlackBerry has announced that it will no longer develop its own hardware.

 

[Thor]

Did they not like a few months ago boast about there new phone etc etc etc

 

[backstreetboy]

Did they not like a few months ago boast about there new phone etc etc etc

BlackBerry has announced that it will stop developing its own hardware and instead outsource the function to partners.

Do you read or just post out of your ass?

 

[Thor]

Do you read or just post out of your ass?

Thread title -> BlackBerry to stop making its own phones

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

Would this be a ...... broad based blackberry economic empowerment deal for the new manufacturer .......

 

[Thor]

Do you read or just post out of your ass?

And they boasted about their new hardware like 2 months ago

 

[Baxteen]

who is blackberry? are they some new startup? or is it still 2009

 

[Deadmanza]

And they boasted about their new hardware like 2 months ago

Comprehension fail. They are still "making" phones, they are just not manufacturing them themselves.

 

[Thor]

Comprehension fail. They are still "making" phones, they are just not manufacturing them themselves.

That's not what the title says. Title says blackberry != Phones

 

[Bryn]

Blackberry should have done this so many years ago. Their phones had crap hardware and software for a long time, so they have no one to blame but themselves for their decline. They could be one of the premier Android brands by now, if the Priv is any indication of what they're capable of.

 

[Dups!]

Should be interesting how they go about this. I wonder how many manufacturers will be involved in manufacturing the pseudo BlackBerry phones, what the input of BlackBerry will be and whether they will have their technologies licenced to that (those) manufacturer(s).

 

[Claymore]

Blackberry should have done this so many years ago. Their phones had crap hardware and software for a long time, so they have no one to blame but themselves for their decline. They could be one of the premier Android brands by now, if the Priv is any indication of what they're capable of.

I have a Priv, and BB10 is a better OS than Android is; less app support though.

 

[Vernon]

I'm still rocking an Q20. It has it's quirks but I'm not about to change to something else.

 

[Bryn]

I have a Priv, and BB10 is a better OS than Android is; less app support though.

That's not a view shared by the Blackberry users I know, or the general vibe I got from Priv reviewers. In any case, that's down to the Priv's implementation of Android anyway. It can always be improved.

 

[Deadmanza]

I have a Priv, and BB10 is a better OS than Android is; less app support though.

Bollocks.

 

[Claymore]

Bollocks.

I've found BB10 significantly more stable, and it multitasks properly; web pages load in the background, apps carry on running, apps load in the background, and there's better built-in hardware support for stuff like USB OTG, SlimPort, etc. Android, by contrast, does seem faster.

 

[Claymore]

That's not a view shared by the Blackberry users I know, or the general vibe I got from Priv reviewers. In any case, that's down to the Priv's implementation of Android anyway. It can always be improved.

I disagree; Android definitely has better app support. ;-)

As for the Priv's implementation - it's been noted as being very close to Google's vanilla implementation, much less modified than Samsung's, for example, to the extent that many bugs found on the Google Nexus are found on the Priv too (hello, car head unit Bluetooth bug...)

 

[Athanc]

Even my Xiaomi with MIUI (having high battery saver restrictions) can do all that.

Have you ever used a BB10 device? And I mean extensively not play with it for a couple of minutes ? Yes it might not be as fast as android. Yes it doesnt have much app support. But its far more stable it truly multitasks and your simplest example is when you leave your browser with youtube for example streaming a video when in background it continiues to play on a BB10 device on android it pauses and stays on standby. Productivity wise what Claymore is saying a BB10 device is way more advanced in features shortcuts and integrations ( for the ones that are available ) than android. I am truly sad BB10 is no longer going to be around. Best productivity devices ever.

EDIT : Hardware wise they really did some true innovations which some of us really enjoy. They just did it on the wrong platform. If they had the Passport on android it would have been a massive hit. Perfect phone for the the phone dependant professional.

 

[Athanc]

Here you are talking about a workaround on one specific occasion. What about the rest of the apps. No one denies android can do and work with anything it's just that BB10 works in better in certain aspects and for certain needs.

 

[Claymore]

And not to mention BB10's gesture-based interface. I've manage to simulate some of it on Android with All-in-One-Gesture, but it's not quite the same. iOS is completely crippled from that aspect.