Dropped my phone..have the samsung galaxy ace and have to go get a new one today....am thinking of maybe switching to BB...Opinions being solicited 
....BB or android??
....BB or android??
Blackberry or android?
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Help save a dying company?
Buying any BB now would be buying an obsolete product.
The future of the company depends on its next OS and line of hardware. And that apparently won't be coming out for a while.
But hey, if you get a BB, I'll give my shitty playbook for cheap.
Buying any BB now would be buying an obsolete product.
The future of the company depends on its next OS and line of hardware. And that apparently won't be coming out for a while.
But hey, if you get a BB, I'll give my shitty playbook for cheap.
That's your opinion. Mine is based on 11 years of loyal blackberry usage, from the original pager to the 9900. I would like nothing more than to see RIM kick ass and dominate. But it hasn't and there is absolutely no indication that it will. Even if it does, it has lost so much momentum. It's no longer about maintaining or gain market share. Any new product will be about recovering lost market share first and foremost.
The battery on my 9900 lasts about 7 hours through light usage. I have a friend who is a heavy user and she tells me that she has to do at least 3 battery swaps per day.
I do like the keyboard for messaging. However, I have been using an iphone since January and the touchscreen typing is very easy to adapt to.
I'm not sure what you base your comment about the next OS being a "huge hit" upon. If RIM is going to win back consumers, it's going to have to come out with some true gamechangers. I have not heard anything to suggest that it will be revolutionary or offer any "must have features". Indeed, the last thing I heard just this week is that it will have adaptive/predictive typing...like what the Pearl had years ago?
Blackberry great organizer and phone qualities are exceptional over their rivals. If you have a busy schedule a Blackberry will organize you if you want multimedia Android. I'm using an iPhone right now for multimedia 4" screen is the biggest you should get as a phone IMO.
Blackberry. It's superior for business use, i.e. email, calendar, contacts, etc.
Blackberry is far from dead, struggling in North America but still dominant in most other parts of the world. The new OS will succeed and they will rebound.
and it's always better to support Canadian companies where you can.
Always amazes me to see people championing the demise of Canadian companies.
Blackberry is far from dead, struggling in North America but still dominant in most other parts of the world. The new OS will succeed and they will rebound.
and it's always better to support Canadian companies where you can.
Always amazes me to see people championing the demise of Canadian companies.
BB does have a nice keyboard, but the voice recognition on the new iphone makes typing text messages and a keyboard obsolete.
Tell us what you use the device for.
Also, tell us if you could, what would you change about your current device. Besides, being water-proof.
Also, tell us if you could, what would you change about your current device. Besides, being water-proof.
Just wait, many corporations have their top execs telling their IT teams make my iphone work with the corporate mail server, hence the BYOD (d for device) generation starts now. the only reason to keep blackberry now would be if you use BBM, else you are losing out on so much integration between the apps. left BB for good when i could open powerpoint attachments which i do easily on my iphone and can pinch and zoom. surfing... well lets not even go there about the differences
It's not so much about which phones is better. The question to narrow down for yourself is what are YOU looking for in a phone.
I went android..Actually got the exact same phone..the new samsung galaxy whatever..had only had mine for 2 months before breaking it and had just really started to learn how to use the damn thing ..I am so not technical..lol..so didnt want to have to start over with a new one..but thank you all so much for your input )))
)))I was a long time BB user. My first one was their monochrome screen.
At the office, when many of us were on BB, JVM errors, memory leaks and other crap was a common occurrence.
Now I'm on an iPhone and its my daily driver.
Don't let some teeny boppers be the face of Apple. 8)
BYOD might fizzle out, as corporations realize the cost of managing it, keeping data secure on a device that IT doesn't control, etc. Seems like a good idea, but it remains to be seen whether it will replace IT supplied and managed devices.
Yeah Blackberry is best for business. That's why major corporations are dumping "Crapberries" for the iphone.
https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&output....,cf.osb&fp=68971e2d10e55fd9&biw=1189&bih=908
Android right now has the best phone available but lacks the branding power of Apple.
Blackberry does some things. Other phones do those same things better and many more things. The choice is a no brainer.
https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&output....,cf.osb&fp=68971e2d10e55fd9&biw=1189&bih=908
Android right now has the best phone available but lacks the branding power of Apple.
Blackberry does some things. Other phones do those same things better and many more things. The choice is a no brainer.
whey you say a fruity phone, do you mean by that a phone that has a screen big enough for internet as opposed to BB?
I've got all three. Android, BB and iPhone. They all have their advantages depending on the application. More importantly the purpose or setting of the user, business,multimedia or social networking. My business requirement's moment to moment observation of the markets, and for security and transmission of data BB gets the vote.
