Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
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Re: Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
#2Anyone got the inside info on why they are waiting so long to release these in America? Should have been available unlocked at launch if they really wanted to regain the hearts and minds of the fickle American consumer.
Re: Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
#3I'm not sure about gestures (can they be done with one hand?) but the unified inbox ("hub") sounds like a fantastic idea.
I don't understand why I can't see all messages from all my email accounts in one window, together with voice messages and texts (Tweets may be a little overwhelming, but they can be filtered out).
This really sounds great -- although it's probably not hard to replicate on another platform.
Re: Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
#4Anyone got the inside info on why they are waiting so long to release these in America? Should have been available unlocked at launch if they really wanted to regain the hearts and minds of the fickle American consumer.
In the US, consumers buy scarcity. They want to have the thing that no one else in the US has. They want whatever they aren't allowed to have. So smart companies release their products in every other country first, then they save their US release for last. The longer they torture US consumers with not having the product everyone else has the higher their initial sales when they finally drop the product. Smart companies also create artificial scarcity by releasing their product in waves. If Americans think they might not be able to get the product because it will be sold out tomorrow they'll buy it today instead of waiting.
Re: Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
#5I'm not sure about gestures (can they be done with one hand?) but the unified inbox ("hub") sounds like a fantastic idea. I don't understand why I can't see all messages from all my email accounts in one window, together with voice messages and texts (Tweets may be a little overwhelming, but they can be filtered out). This really sounds great -- although it's probably not hard to replicate on another platform.
I got my Z10 yesterday and I can confirm that the phone (and all the gestures) are completely usable with just one hand.
The phone size was selected pretty intelligently. I don't think the UI design would have worked with a bigger phone.
Re: Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
#6I'm not sure about gestures (can they be done with one hand?) but the unified inbox ("hub") sounds like a fantastic idea. I don't understand why I can't see all messages from all my email accounts in one window, together with voice messages and texts (Tweets may be a little overwhelming, but they can be filtered out). This really sounds great -- although it's probably not hard to replicate on another platform.
Windows phone does this unification in a way that works better for me.
All messages (sms, chat, facebook messages) are together All emails are together All social walls (facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc) are together.
You can switch the communication medium i.e. reply to facebook message with an SMS and so on. Of course all of these are filterable and configurable. This seems to work better for me as they are most of the times distinct worlds.
Re: Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
#7Anyone got the inside info on why they are waiting so long to release these in America? Should have been available unlocked at launch if they really wanted to regain the hearts and minds of the fickle American consumer.
Is an unlocked phone really that important to the majority of American consumers? They've showed quite readily in the past that they really don't care that much.
Re: Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
#8Anyone got the inside info on why they are waiting so long to release these in America? Should have been available unlocked at launch if they really wanted to regain the hearts and minds of the fickle American consumer.
The original idea was to use the rest of the world as a testing ground to work out any potential bugs in the software prior to releasing in the US.
It could be even worse to release in the US with a critical bug than to release later.
Re: Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
#9Any word on PlayBook getting the BB10?
Re: Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never
#10Anyone got the inside info on why they are waiting so long to release these in America? Should have been available unlocked at launch if they really wanted to regain the hearts and minds of the fickle American consumer.
The original idea was to use the rest of the world as a testing ground to work out any potential bugs in the software prior to releasing in the US. It could be even worse to release in the US with a critical bug than to release later.
That's just silly and so US-centric it's laughable (as is the parent). It's not BlackBerry that is causing the delay, the US carrier device testing/acceptance is the stumbling block. If it was up to BlackBerry they would be available now.