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BlackBerry Offering Up to $550 for iPhones in Limited-Time Passport 'Trade-Up' Program
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It's only pedantic when you have an agenda to pursue, and you get called out on it.
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It definitely won't be an iPhone killer. However, there is a diehard niche of Blackberry veterans who insist on having a physical keyboard. Just take a peek sometime at the crackberry forums and you'll see what I mean. they also still labor under the delusion that Blackberries are more secure, etc. So, as long as the company formerly known as RIM keeps their demand estimates realistic, the Passport will do okay. It's exactly that diehard group that the Passport is made for.
Unfortunately, Blackberry hasn't found any.
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Problem here is there are few personal opinions that match yours.
Yeah its su dumb you can't even sext cause there is no Snapchat app.
Oh you kids.
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Market has no voice, it only has penetration.
I have had a iPhone since the first device was launched and before that I owned a Blackberry which I carried around the world and it never let me down, period.
For all those out there who want to knock the new passport, I suggest you try one out before you make you make judgement on the device!!!
I have both the iPhone 6+ 128 and I bought a new Blackberry passport on Black Friday for 499 off Amazon. I have been using the device as my daily driver and I am very impressed with it.
The screen is big and bright and I can put my spreadsheets up and the text is all there all there. I thought the physical keyboard would be an issue, but after a few days I found I actually typed better then using a touchscreen one and with less errors.
As far as the OS10 software, I found myself liking the swipe and gesturing concepts and for those of you who depend on message for my business like I do, nothing out there beats the HUB, period. All my messages and notifications in one spot.
I suggest you go and try the device before bashing the brand. As much as I love my iPhone 6+, Blackberry is on to something here.
For all those out there who want to knock the new passport, I suggest you try one out before you make you make judgement on the device!!!
I have both the iPhone 6+ 128 and I bought a new Blackberry passport on Black Friday for 499 off Amazon. I have been using the device as my daily driver and I am very impressed with it.
The screen is big and bright and I can put my spreadsheets up and the text is all there all there. I thought the physical keyboard would be an issue, but after a few days I found I actually typed better then using a touchscreen one and with less errors.
As far as the OS10 software, I found myself liking the swipe and gesturing concepts and for those of you who depend on message for my business like I do, nothing out there beats the HUB, period. All my messages and notifications in one spot.
I suggest you go and try the device before bashing the brand. As much as I love my iPhone 6+, Blackberry is on to something here.
I tried the passport:
1. without apps it is useless (android apps are buggy; crashes, reboots, drains the battery)
2. Square screen is horrible compared to the iPhone 6 plus: colors, contrast, sharpness, brightness, viewing angle are all noticeably degraded compared to the iPhone 6+)
3. 3 row keyboard layout was abysmal. Tiny space bar, no shift key, loose character keys makes the keyboard irritating at best.
The passport isn't selling just like the the q10, z10, q5, z3, etc.
bb10 has been an abysmal failure for the company. Mark my words, Chen will pull the plug on bb10 shortly
On a completely unrelated note Blackberry finally got rid of their ugly bb10 ui for the iOS version of bbm.
Ps:
iOS Acompli > bb 10 hub
I'm sure there were a lot of opinions regarding the microsft kin, palms web os, blackberry's legacy os, and Symbian.
Didn't help those platforms now did it?
If it doesn't sell it won't be supported. Bb10 just doesn't sell.
Sadly, your opinion doesn't hold as much weight as you would like.
I disagree with the majority of your post but this bit I disagree with most of all. The BB 10 HUB is one of the winning features of the BBOS for me. No other smartphone OS has a feature that comes anywhere near close to the functionality the HUB provides. It turns an app orientated phone into a communications device with nothing but a quick swipe.
I'm agreeing with bakron1 over this. And out of sheer curiosity, what makes you think Chen will pull the plug on BB 10?
You have never even tried acompli on iOS, download it and see as for the rest disagree away.
I reiterate:
iOS acompli > bb10 hub
you can't be serious.
I'm just offering my opinion based on my experience. I wouldn't say the HUB was better than iOS + Acompli if I had never tried Acompli. I find it amazingly audacious of you to tell me what I have and haven't used just because I disagree with your opinion. Weak. 0/10.
That's your opinion.
You have never even tried acompli on iOS, download it and see as for the rest disagree away.
I reiterate:
iOS acompli > bb10 hub
you can't be serious.
Sorry but you can't even compare Acompli to the Hub on BB OS10. Acompli is mainly used to integrate you email and calendar.
The Hub integrates email, text, Facebook, Twitter, phone calls and voice mail in one area with a single swipe to the right. It's built into the OS and not some third party app.
Actually I can and will compare acompli solely for their email and calendar integration to bb10's hub, because that's what what enterprise users use and care about, email and calendar, not Facebook and Twitter, but to each thier own.
As for Facebook, Twitter, and messages, ios has their own paradigm with notifications and widgets in the notification bar.
Bb10/legacy bb Enterprise users transitioning to the iPhone love accompli especially the way it interacts with attachments.
Ps: acompli was recently by Microsoft for around 200 million dollars.