A slide phone! How original
And the candybar style of the iPhone is original? Or?
A slide phone! How original
Come on you are all a smart bunch of people. You do realize that RIM is not in the same market as the iPhone and Android. They are geared more towards enterprises who utilize BES.
Meh. Wouldn't buy this for my dog...
Is MacRumors now Engadget? Seriously, what does this have to do with Apple or the magical iPhone 4?
In what way is RIM corrupting peoples minds to buy Blackberrys instead of iPhones?
Enterprises are increasingly adopting the iPhone due to its advanced business features in iOS 4...RIM is actually losing a lot of appeal, as its third party-based "secure" and "encrypted" services are more and more under the scrutiny of governments. BB's dependability is a great myth.
I suspect this mentality will be the source of much criticism against this phone, but it makes one horrible assumption: that the 'user' mentioned above is a generic factor. There are businesses and users who very much like aspects of the BlackBerry, and also want something which is primarily designed as a communication device. BlackBerry has a different demographic and to ignore this would be to toss themselves to the wolves.If a user is deciding between and iPhone and a Blackberry - no doubt the iPhone would win. But there's an assumption there. That the user is comparing.
BLACKBERRY IS DEAD. AND SO IS ANDROID.
Ive never been a BB sorta guy although it is an improvement. Personally, I think sliders and mechanical keyboards are fast becoming obsolete.
This is RIM's swansong, worry not...what an irrelevant piece of kit.
BLACKBERRY IS DEAD. AND SO IS ANDROID.
Come on you are all a smart bunch of people. You do realize that RIM is not in the same market as the iPhone and Android. They are geared more towards enterprises who utilize BES.
Facts: More people use Blackberries in the U.S. than any other smartphone platform. More people bought Blackberries in the last 6 months than any other smartphone platform.
Source: Nielsen data cited just yesterday on Macrumors.
Conclusion: You're ignorant.
I dunno... I think RIM should stick to where it's good and respond more to it's customers needs and not make Quasimodo-like iphone/blackberry spinoffs.
This phone, apart from the OS, doesn't seem to offer anything that would win over the hardened iPhone, Blackberry, or Android user.
Yeah and iOS is totally secure. Especially since it allows Jailbreaking via a Webpage which is actually utilizing a Font security hole that was originally in OSX that apple... ah you get the point.
BES will allow the Blackberry to remain a player in the Enterprise. Until Apple releases a centralized management tool for the iPhone it will always be something Corporate Security teams shutter at. Just because a CEO who likes new toys says his company is going to adopt something, doesn't mean the Info Security won't do its due diligence to squash it.
And the candybar style of the iPhone is original? Or?