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Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by mato »

simo_dax wrote: post #6

I'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 any…

Which is your Twitter app? Now that m.twitter.com no longer works in the BB10 browser, I need one.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by Jermaine_Jabi »

simo_dax wrote: post #6

I'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 any…

The unified message centre has not yet been topped.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by arch-ninja »

simo_dax wrote: post #6

I'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 any…

Hello fellow q10 fan! Small question: if someone were to start a company to maintain q10 and q20 devices, how valuable would that be to you at a monthly subscription rate?

I do not want to see these devices fall into obsolescence, and they are simple/old enough you could reverse-engineer the parts or get in touch with the asian companies who did some of the production runs for RIM.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by mato »

gertrunde wrote: post #10

In 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).

AFAICT from the Internets, BB10 OS actually supports VoLTE, but there's no way to manually enable it. Given the support status of the devices no carrier will provision VoLTE on it for you these days either, so we're out of luck.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by bluecatswim »

andmikey wrote: post #5

I'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 t…

>means I can't use banking apps, or government apps (eg. Track&Trace or recently the EU Settled Status app)

Can't you use a web browser for those things?

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by caiob »

arch-ninja wrote: post #13
simo_dax wrote: post #6

I'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 any…

Hello fellow q10 fan! Small question: if someone were to start a company to maintain q10 and q20 devices, how valuable would that be to you at a monthly subscription rate? I do not want to see these devices fall into obsolescence, and they are simple/old enough you could reverse-engineer the parts or get in touch with the asian companies who did some of the production runs for RIM.

I loved my q10 and my Passport as well. I wish they'd release a new Android version.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by mato »

arch-ninja wrote: post #13
simo_dax wrote: post #6

I'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 any…

Hello fellow q10 fan! Small question: if someone were to start a company to maintain q10 and q20 devices, how valuable would that be to you at a monthly subscription rate? I do not want to see these devices fall into obsolescence, and they are simple/old enough you could reverse-engineer the parts or get in touch with the asian companies who did some of the production runs for RIM.

Not the original poster, but I have a hard time imagining you'd be able to meaningfully maintain the OS and integrated software (e.g. Hub, supported TLS versions for mail, etc.) via "mods" of any kind.

What _might_ be useful and actually possible would be an up-to-date maintained "rebuild" / "rewrite" of the native browser app, since there you can vendor pretty much all the important components you need.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by hinkley »

gertrunde wrote: post #10

In 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).

I think the iPhone got a lot of customers who were on the fence about blackberries. I wanted better email, but the stereotype of the PHB blackberry owner was just fading into obsolescence when the iPhone 3G showed up and killed half of everything.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by hinkley »

HarryHirsch wrote: post #8
Scramblejams wrote: post #2

My 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!

I can't recall who, but someone showed me a phone with a physical keyboard that had a touchpad built into the keyboard.

Which is to say, if you ran your thumb over the keys without pushing any, a cursor would move on the screen.

Was that a Blackberry?

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