Miss blackberry phones with physical keyboard, once I got familiar with it, it didn’t matter if I was responding to sms or email it was always pleasure to type up the response. Also having media keys on top of the phone meant I could switch between songs by just pressing down on those when phone was in my pocket. Now you have to tap your wireless headphones and imaginary keyboard no feedback and pleasure for your fingers
Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
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#112I really loved having the red notification light for when a message was received on my BB. Having to click a button on my iPhone in order to check whether I have a notification or not is quite jarring, and time consuming. And like everyone else here I really miss having a proper keyboard. That thing was great.
Not quite the same and probably not as useful, but on iPhone going to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual is an option for LED Flash For Alerts. This probably isn't as useful because the flashing only occurs when the notification arrives and isn't a persistent visual indicator like I assume the BlackBerry light was.
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#113The only BlackBerry I ever owned was the BlackBerry Classic, back when that was still contemporary. Best phone I ever had. The UX was very consistent between apps, everything targeting it natively tended to be quite speedy, and the keyboard was excellent. I also miss the "BlackBerry Hub" feature, which would aggregate your emails, BlackBerry messenger messages, and SMS messages into a single UI. It even pulled in not…
Blackberry Hub was a thing of beauty. A single message queue for things I need to be aware of would make my life so much easier.
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#114Positively surprised to see may people missing it. I do so as well. Started with 9870, moved to 9900 then Passport, Q10, Priv. Last model was a disappointment since it was android based. Besides amazing keyboard, BlackBerryOS was just amazing piece of software, probably due to large RIM experience in real-time OSes. System had no lags whatsoever, everything was just working how it should be. Miss it dearly.
> probably due to large RIM experience in real-time OSes
Nope. They acquired QNX. BB10 is based on QNX, which has been around for far longer than Blackberry and is the most solid OS I’ve ever used.
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#115Yes I miss it everyday, I feel so clumsy typing on a piece of glass, and make soo many typos. I could type BLIND without typos whole emails while maintaining a casual conversation (much to the annoyance of my girlfriend). There are a lot of BlackBerry-stans still on crackberry.com holding out on older and newer BlackBerry phoned (key2 being the latest). Really loved my Q10 with bb10os and my Keyone running Android! S…
> BlackBerry licensed Onward Mobility to make another keyboard phone
I would instantly throw away my IPhone (despite being happy with macOS/iOS) for a Blackberry like phone with LineageOS.
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#116Now imagine that all of our computers would run an OS like the one underlying the BlackBerry (QnX), the responsiveness was to a very large degree a direct effect of having a soft real time OS as the basis to build the rest of the applications on.
Unlike Java, QNX has no warning against using it to control a nuclear reactor in the EULA.
That says something ;-)
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#117I really loved having the red notification light for when a message was received on my BB. Having to click a button on my iPhone in order to check whether I have a notification or not is quite jarring, and time consuming. And like everyone else here I really miss having a proper keyboard. That thing was great.
I liked that on BB10 it went full RGB so you could guess what the message was about by looking at the phone.
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#118We have a lot of positive nostalgia, so time for some negative views :D I hated most every blackberry I owned. Stupid, clumsy and bulky devices. BlackBerry was not that massive a shift from the standard. It was just _slightly_ different to what feature phones of the day were doing. Sony Ericson had some P800/P900 devices that clouted the BB in terms of power and feature sets. Here's a quick roundup of why I don't hol…
I loved my P800 and how easy it was for doing voice dialling without sending my voice over to be processed for recognition.
You just recorded yourself saying the name and that was it. It was simple and brilliant.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
#119Positively surprised to see may people missing it. I do so as well. Started with 9870, moved to 9900 then Passport, Q10, Priv. Last model was a disappointment since it was android based. Besides amazing keyboard, BlackBerryOS was just amazing piece of software, probably due to large RIM experience in real-time OSes. System had no lags whatsoever, everything was just working how it should be. Miss it dearly.
> probably due to large RIM experience in real-time OSes Nope. They acquired QNX. BB10 is based on QNX, which has been around for far longer than Blackberry and is the most solid OS I’ve ever used.
At the time, I was developing apps for BB10, Android and iOS at the same time. BB10 felt very well designed compared to the other 2.
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#120I used to own a BB Z30, which I bought after my q10 developer édition began having issues, and to this day I still think this is the best phone I ever used, primarily because of the BB OS. I had only owned iPhones before that and have owned both Android and iPhones since then.
I had the DevAlpha and it was an amazing phone. Still would look modern.