Originally Posted by
Internaut
Blackberry have gone out of their way to make the porting of Android applications very simple to do. Hopefully, Playbook users will get an upgrade. A lot of these devices were sold very cheaply but could now be used to give Blackberry 10 a little momentum from the start!
If Blackberry get this right, they can have a very easy path to growth, compared to other new entrants......
From the review on The Verge:
The Android apps I tested while using the Z10 performed abysmally on the phone. Sluggish, ugly, and disconnected from the core OS. In fact, because these apps are being run in a software emulation of Android — Gingerbread no less (that's version 2.3) — they bear little to no relationship to the rest of the operating system. Even the tool you use to select text and the contextual menus are from another operating system! It's a terrible choice on BlackBerry's part, and one I hope the company quickly abandons. It's not a shortcut to having a lot of apps — it's a shortcut to having a lot of bad apps that turn customers off.
