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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.
Never understood the raves about the keyboard. I've had several PDA or phones with built in keyboard, including multiple Blackberries issued by work. I've detested the typing experience on every one of them. My hands and fingers are pretty small too.
But the Sony Ericsson M600i is still my favourite phone keyboard. A modern device using that dual-key rocker QWERTY would be amazing IMHO.
All my best phones were blackberry. From the good old ones up to the Z10. The developer scene at he time of OS10 was so cool! Fantastic devices, such a shame that people enjoyed seeing blackberry die out. I'm still using my playbook, 11 years and going strong
The problem for me though is networking. I fired it up a couple of years ago and found that very few urls will work with either the browser or with curl/wget/urllib which I am more interested in. I couldn't find any information about this, so I don't know if it was a https or certificate issue somehow, or if something in mine is broken. If you saw anything similar, it would be great to know if/how you resolved it.
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> full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) Only two years behind the N9.
Which also had the unified notification/message centre too. The N9 was so far ahead of its time it’s not even funny. Easily my favourite phone of all time.
All of which also post-date first Ericsson phones, which UI later was later copied by Nokia, Siemens, and everybody else.
I do remember my R520 from 2001 had something similar.
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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?
My Blackberry Passport has that and it was super cool and useful. It felt great. I miss that keyboard so much. Blackberry was innovating but nobody cared; tech media loved to mock them and push them down. They lost a marketing war in addition to a product war.
I would pay good money for a quality after-market keyboard to snap on to the bottom or side of an iPhone.
I would pay a lot of money for a blackberry 7500 based phone. With some minor upgrades to make it work with modern paradigms )I do want to be able to use signal). The world I want is where my media device (for tik tok, Spotify, Facebook, etc) and my work device are physically different, and tailored specifically to their purpose. Nothing released since then had even come remotely close. It had hardware buttons, the s…
> Here’s a lesson for people running companies now: BB failed when they stopped marketing to boring suits, and started trying to compete with the Motorola RAZR, then the iPhone. But here's the thing: Suits all pretty much wanted iPhones. I recall one of the most requested feature on the iPhone was Exchange support. And their custom messaging thing just wasn't valuable enough to keep users around (hint, the real high…
“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.