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Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by 29083011397778 »

hinkley wrote: post #20
HarryHirsch wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It likely was, depending on timeframe. Others have mentioned the Passport and KeyTwo, and I know my KeyOne supports it. That combination would cover at least 2014 and on.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by koiz »

Bakary wrote: post #97
koiz wrote: post #45

“What can I say—I just love the keyboard,” Ron says. “I feel like an idiot when I tap a glass screen.” You look like an idiot when you take out a bb though.

If you start worrying what people think of your phone choice of all things, you are giving them way too much power over your life. In reality, they don't care as much about others as you might think they do.

“I feel like an idiot when I tap a glass screen.”

obviously he cares about being an idiot...

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by nwienert »

tempest_ wrote: post #78
Spinfusor wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The N9 was only two years behind the Palm Pre!

Man WebOS was ahead of its time. Palm just couldnt put out a piece of hardware that wasnt riddled with defects. I guess it lives on in LG TVs but for the year or so before that palm pre broke it was great.

So far ahead it’s actually still a better UX than even today’s iOS, just phenomenally well done.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by fakedang »

NearAP wrote: post #48
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…

I held on to my Q10 for a long time. That feeling of being able to type text with one hand because of the physical keyboard was so awesome. Alas, I finally had to drop it when an application I basically couldn't live without stopped supporting BB platform and I needed the latest version of that App.

You can install apks on Q10s manually. I did that when WhatsApp was discontinued for BB 5 years back.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by jesterson »

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…

Gosh, how badly I miss my Q10.

Had to switch to major OS because of banking and few other apps.

Every single device since then sucked, including BB Android based crap.

The last time I've something like that was when I switched to 9900

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

#106

Post by acct776 »

speeder wrote: post #3

If 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.

They have a progressive webapp, no?

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by Scoundreller »

thom wrote: post #94

Let’s say it’s January 9th, 2007 and Steve Jobs has just come off stage after the original iPhone announcement. You’re in charge of BlackBerry. What do you do differently?

Double-down on what people love most about your platform: BBM and make it cross-platform. Charge $0.99 after 1 year.

Apple will be too inward to be competition for that.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by cycomanic »

Nition wrote: post #23
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…

> full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) Only two years behind the N9.

A I miss my N9, in fact I would still be using it if the battery hadn't failed suddenly. The story behind axing the N9 still makes me shake my head, how could that have been something else than MS planting a trojan horse at the top of Nokia to take over their mobile business. The incompetence or malice displayed by Elop still makes me shake my head to this day.

Re: People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

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Post by jeromegv »

acct776 wrote: post #106
speeder wrote: post #3

If 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.

They have a progressive webapp, no?

The web app depends on you being on the same wifi as a real Whatsapp mobile app. It’s more of a desktop solution.
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