Good point. Siri is that final butterfly to tip the scale for business people who need to make quick arrangements in their busy schedules while on the move. This feature alone might be the last nail in the coffin for blackberry in the months to come.
Oh its MUCH bigger than that!
Siri ... voice and directions, launching apps, executive tasks.
- doing this all while hands are full with a REAL headset that works beyond just calls.
Shortcuts ... a LONG uniqueness to BlackBerry is "AutoText".
- I tweeted this with MUCH joy (since I've worked supporting BES/BB's for years). If you can pre-enter a word, phrase, heck a full paragraph for a reply for use in Emails, SMS, MMS, webposts via Safari or within apps ... anywhere you enter text ... this can in some cases be more efficient than Siri.
HSPA+
- yes the Bold 9900 has this but it can ONLY use it while USB tethered. Oh yeah you cannot use WLAN to tether provider data connection. Sad.
Productivity. We all know this but its REALLY becoming evident.
MOST BB diehards are the OLDER than 30 professionals in large business/corporations that STILL cling to the physical keyboard for large emails (compose/reply's). This is just SIMPLY an assinine arguement in my mind and I've used, and supported BB's and RIM for over 10yrs. Its JUST physical memory ... a habit to touch something that gives you a feedback on immediate touch and pressure in response to you using it = physical keyboard. If these same BB diehards actually & honestly gave the iPhone or Android touchscreen a FULL chance for 30days daily use with patience they'd quickly adapt.
regardless of your smartphone, any physical data entry is done while LOOKING at the keyboard, you just cannot touch-type on it! Plain & simple truth. This is where Siri or Dragon Naturally speaking can be VERY powerful for emails and with the auto correct and spell-check before sending can improve on accuracy, time being spent to compose those emails and leaving your hands to actually do other physical takes - organize documents (papers/legal notes/PC or OSX file structure via drag N drop), carry luggage, hold a child's hand while walking across the street, or even someone very elderly.
Another thought: Seeing someone with a seizure and you have no phone on you. imagine picking up their cellphone seeing characters/numbers typed while they tried to call "911" (actually typing 911111111111111111111111111), figuring out how to use THEIR phone, correcting the entry then properly dialing 911. This happened to me some 8yrs ago - and the girl was a security guard. God forbid she wasn't having a stroke or had been shot. Imagine just pressing a button, telling Siri to dial and give your present location automatically. Done! Securely.
Bye-Bye RIM. you've shot yourself in the foot. Lazaridis had to publicly apologize for last weeks outage during investors notice and did so publicly. You could tell the outage hurt him on a personal note. RIM you've done an amazing world of service ... but its time to close the doors, sell the patents and move on, or completely EVOLVE! Time waits for no company.
