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I think this is the craziest line in the entire story: The Passport was already in development years before Mr. Chen arrived. Years? Chen has been their CEO for a year now. When did this project start?
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The keyboard doubles as a track pad. I imagine the phone will shine when reading content in landscape mode, and scrolling using the track pad. Supposedly works well for lefties too. I understand that the BlackBerry displays around 66 lines of text, compared with the iPhones 31-odd. I'd like very much to play with one before I wrote the device off. Given that I use my phone primarily for reading this could find a nich…
No: 66 characters per line vs 31 for the iphone [in portrait mode] [before the new models came out] Failing to compete with last year's devices is not the path to victory. The register is the most positive writeup I've seen, and the headline is "it's bonkers". E.g. They like the trackpad keyboard for handling a large display without using both hands compared with Apple's "reachability", but you have to use both hands…
In contrast to many of the others, I think the industrial design of this thing is beautiful. Of greater potential interest around here is they relatively quietly added the Amazon App Store to it. Still, it amazes me that they don't do something fairly obvious like team up with Bloomberg on becoming the mobile Bloomberg terminals, complete with the chat and coloured keys.
Why the hell can't I just have my Blackberry Curve back? Please! The form factor was perfect, the battery was great, the operating system was hella snappier than my current Nexus, all it needed was to run Android apps and have a better camera. Why are they trying to sell us bathroom tiles now?
You may get your wish.
I never understood how Blackberry hardware designers can be so bad. I'm glad they realized that the keyboard is where the Blackberry shines but, a square design!? They should've stuck with something more similar to the Q10.
They used to be industry leaders. I don't know what happened.
I know my opinion isn't in line with the positive feedback loop culture on HN, but this phone looks like a joke! I feel like hardware keyboards on mobile devices are archaic and overhyped. I know it's Blackberry's key thing, but instead of trying the same old tired keyboard, why not embrace the software keyboard with some innovations? They could do some research in ultrasonic haptic feedback, shape shifting displays,…
Would you care to elaborate more on what about BB 10/BB OS 10 is mediocre? Edit (after response below): I should add the only item I can think of is Apps but they are working on wrapping Android items. Edit 2: z30 - sunspider - tinyurl.com/pt6gjrw
The device and OS itself is solid, but nobody cares if there are no applications for it. A smartphone without apps is not substantially different from a circa early-2000s feature phone with worse battery life.
This thing looks incredible, aesthetically. If there were an Android option, I'd seriously consider it.
I know my opinion isn't in line with the positive feedback loop culture on HN, but this phone looks like a joke! I feel like hardware keyboards on mobile devices are archaic and overhyped. I know it's Blackberry's key thing, but instead of trying the same old tired keyboard, why not embrace the software keyboard with some innovations? They could do some research in ultrasonic haptic feedback, shape shifting displays,…
The Z10 was a BB10 device that did have a touch-screen keyboard, and its sales were pathetic.