People Keeping BlackBerry Alive
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People Keeping BlackBerry Alive
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#2My kingdom for a slick, open Linux phone with a fantastic camera and a keyboard on par with the Curve's.
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#3If I could get a new blackberry that supports WhatsApp (basically mandatory in my country), I would.
Right now I am tolerating a extremely low ram KaiOS phone that often crashes... but I still prefer it to Android.
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#4My kingdom for a slick, open Linux phone with a fantastic camera and a keyboard on par with the Curve's.
Pinephone is getting a keyboard attachment. Not sure on the camera quality though
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#5I've been using a Blackberry Passport since early 2019 - as a replacement for the "dumb" phone I used for many years. I love it! The build quality is fantastic. The keyboard is a beauty to type on. The camera is great quality. In terms of build it's my ideal phone. What I wouldn't give for an up-to-date version of this [edit: at an affordable price]!
Unfortunately the software limitations mean that I'm likely going to need to switch to a "modern" phone soon. Per the article you can't run Android apps beyond Android 4.3 and even those often don't work - means I can't use banking apps, or government apps (eg. Track&Trace or recently the EU Settled Status app), or Spotify, or most chat apps. Many websites don't work on it either.
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#6I'm one of those guys, I still use a Q10 (OS10 family) as my daily driver. I felt in love with its ux e.g. the hub which acts both as notification center and timeline, full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) and an app permission system which allowed you choose which one should be granted to the app (again, back in 2013! Android had to wait years before this was implemented)
Apps are scarce, many don't work anymore due to obsolescence, but the main ones are there: I mantain a Twitter and a Twitch app, and keep updating them to follow Api changes. Spotify and Whatsapp can be used through the android layer, the native BB maps are still functional. Another nice guy on Crackberry mantains a youtube app.. I feel I can say that if you don't have many requirements it's still a solid phone, it can't do much but what it does it does well.
Also, the privacy is unmatched
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#7The Priv is still my all time favourite form factor for a smart phone. Typing benefits are self explanatory but having your thumb off the screen by swiping on the keyboard was super nice. It was a total step backwards switching to a fixed keyboards.
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#8My kingdom for a slick, open Linux phone with a fantastic camera and a keyboard on par with the Curve's.
Yes, the infrared touchpad beats the hell out of swiping around the screen!
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#9I use a BB Classic (q20) every day. It's the most responsive, ergonomic phone on the market aside from the q10. I also have the native development kit and the skills to keep that device operating forever, one thing I noticed is the root SSL certificates are no longer updated. I have copied the ones off my Arch system to the SD card and manually install new roots of trust as they are published.
When I push a button an action happens, always. It's that simple.
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#10In the 10-12 years since I last had a Blackberry, no phone that I've had has come close to it in terms of an email device.
Current phones do a lot of things much better (apps, games app stores etc), but not email, and voice calls have only recently started to show some advantages (Voice over LTE/Voice over WiFi/HD Calls etc).