Me. Looking at switching from Apple products so I'm interested to see what other shave to bring to the table.
Mind you, by your logic nobody else should even try. Not a person on the planet should want something different right?
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Texas Company Promises to Release 5G BlackBerry With Physical QWERTY Keyboard in 2021
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Mind you, by your logic nobody else should even try. Not a person on the planet should want something different right?
Granted, sooner or later someone will topple both iOS and Android, but I don’t see it happening by BlackBerry doing the same thing. If it failed back then, what would it work now? So I don’t think there’s a market at all. Maybe a few people, but that doesn’t make it a market.
The BlackBerry Key* phones actually were very well received, the only problem was that TCL royally screwed up by refusing to update them and going AT&T only. I think if this new company can get behind it and promise 3 years of OS AND security updates and make it available to every carrier, they would have something. Are you going to get people to abandon their iPhones en masse? No. But you can definitely carve out a niche in the Android market.
I use a BlackBerry and (Key2) and love it to death. I know a lot of people find this topic humorous, but there are some business people (myself being one) who still see the phone as a productivity device rather than a play device. I know the iPhone can be a productivity device too, however the keyboard is a big deal to me.
And as someone who has to support such users who insist on still using these buggy Android based Blackberrys, I will be glad when they are properly gone. It's the Blackberry hub which is the main problem, users having messages disappearing on them or being unable to open any message until they completely delete their accounts and re-add. Don't get these issues with any other phones.
The more I get used to using my iPad, the more I think I could switch back to a physical keyboard.
Me. Infuriates the hell out of my trying to type on iddy biddy software keys. I want to feel the indentations with my fingers.
Lithium Ion will keep its charge for quite some time, but, if it falls below (I think more or less) 2.65 Volts it's dead.
That phone most likely will work again with a fresh battery, not that you want that...most likely.
There are other, much better options though. Blackberry isn't even Blackberry anymore. It's just a label slapped on a device made by a 3rd party made possible by a licensing agreement, and a new licensee at that which was made necessary after the previous 3rd party (TCL) said they were going to stop making "Blackberry" devices (presumably because nobody outside of the 50 people that still read Crackberry were buying them).
I’m honestly surprised that Facebook hasn’t started it’s own mobile operating system to compete. Also, since leadership has changed since Windows Mobile, Microsoft could come back into the game but I doubt that will happen anytime soon since they are also releasing Android devices now.
Oh it's dead. As I expected, the battery reads 0 volts. Will not hold a charge.
Funny thing is my old 3GS still charges and powers up and I've gone years in between each recharge.
I'm with you. If I had to carry a work phone I would want it to be a BB style with physical keyboard. Even their condensed keyboard was doable...of course my formative years were with a Palm and graffiti lol
I had such high hopes for that phone. I was convinced it would save BB but it was so buggy I had to go back to an iPhone :-(
I had one of those. Coming from a regular Blackberry at the time, I absolutely hated it. Thanks a lot for bringing back those horrific days. LOL
I believe many iPhone users have been having such problems (and others) over the past few months related or caused by iOS updates.