DrJohnZoidberg
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Nope, that's what happens when Blackberry build phones that their own OS cannot run on properly. They should have used a slimmed down OS for the entry level phones.
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Nope, that's what happens when Blackberry build phones that their own OS cannot run on properly. They should have used a slimmed down OS for the entry level phones.
elvis_presley
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I've been involved in some BB development recently, even if you think the device is nice, and the OS is cool, I wouldn't touch a BB with a barge-pole. It's quite clear their tech boys have been culled down to a bare minimum, their developer relations are almost non-existant, their APIs are bug riddled with little or no hope of resolution on the horizon.
I'm convinced that anything that appears good about BB is just a nice coat of paint on a big stinky turd. That company has serious issues deep in the core; the strong technical foundation the company was built on is gone - it's just the marketers and designers trying to put a pretty face on the company in a last-gasp hope to keep it relevant.
I'm convinced that anything that appears good about BB is just a nice coat of paint on a big stinky turd. That company has serious issues deep in the core; the strong technical foundation the company was built on is gone - it's just the marketers and designers trying to put a pretty face on the company in a last-gasp hope to keep it relevant.
Years ago I bought a BB because of BIS and BBM.
The bad: constant reboots and spinning clock; terrible camera; the low quality of apps released in BB app World. Android and iOS versions had better UI's, performed more functions and were just better in general. We got Symbian quality apps and games. BB maps was useless. I had to download Google Maps and it didn't have voice-guided navigation. My Bold's GPS was not the best in the world either. So
The good: BB email; how easy it was to copy and paste texts from any screen to another (the process is much slower on a full touch device); BBM has to be the best instant messaging app I have ever used (I mean BBM in an actual BB - not the Android or iOS versions); although there were not that many apps in app world, I could download and install Java apps and games. From uhm...dodgey sites. No anti-virus was needed. In fact, the first time I saw an antivirus app for a phone was when I moved over to Android.
Will I go back to BB? Nope. I played around with the Z10 and Z30. They kept harping on about how secure those devices were and how BB can finish entire sentences for me. Well, I have something similar on Android that completes words and can also predict the next word I'm most likely to write. On the security issue. I'm not a government official or reporter. I use TOR and Ubuntu on my pc for anything that requires the kind of security BB offers. I am no longer interested in phones with keyboards or Blackberry.
The bad: constant reboots and spinning clock; terrible camera; the low quality of apps released in BB app World. Android and iOS versions had better UI's, performed more functions and were just better in general. We got Symbian quality apps and games. BB maps was useless. I had to download Google Maps and it didn't have voice-guided navigation. My Bold's GPS was not the best in the world either. So
The good: BB email; how easy it was to copy and paste texts from any screen to another (the process is much slower on a full touch device); BBM has to be the best instant messaging app I have ever used (I mean BBM in an actual BB - not the Android or iOS versions); although there were not that many apps in app world, I could download and install Java apps and games. From uhm...dodgey sites. No anti-virus was needed. In fact, the first time I saw an antivirus app for a phone was when I moved over to Android.
Will I go back to BB? Nope. I played around with the Z10 and Z30. They kept harping on about how secure those devices were and how BB can finish entire sentences for me. Well, I have something similar on Android that completes words and can also predict the next word I'm most likely to write. On the security issue. I'm not a government official or reporter. I use TOR and Ubuntu on my pc for anything that requires the kind of security BB offers. I am no longer interested in phones with keyboards or Blackberry.
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I worked at MTN Business at the time when BB's were all the rage so I upgraded whenever a new model came out. My first BB was a 7290 and after that it the Pearl 8130 I think. Never had a Curve, always the Bold or in one very unfortunate error in judgement, the Storm 2.