Blackberry 10 Thread
Jan 29, 2013 | 5:33 pm
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Im ready to leave Android. If mail works well natively that is a step up from my Android phone. Also, the World Mate app of BB was very nice.
Jan 29, 2013 | 7:31 pm
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Jan 29, 2013 | 10:01 pm
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I'm trying to remember if Palm ever tried to get back into the market after users started moving away from their platform.
Jan 30, 2013 | 7:14 am
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] in action, possibly on my Playbook if I don't find the money to upgrade my phone anytime soon.
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Jan 30, 2013 | 8:34 am
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Well they've just announced the Q10 (keyboard version) 
and the Z10 (touch version) the company is changing their name to Blackberry - goodbye RIM. And now I have to do some work 
and the Z10 (touch version) the company is changing their name to Blackberry - goodbye RIM. And now I have to do some work
Jan 30, 2013 | 9:05 am
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Skype and Kindle have just been confirmed as apps and now I must stop watching and do some work. 
Jan 30, 2013 | 9:06 am
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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......
If Blackberry get this right, they can have a very easy path to growth, compared to other new entrants......
Jan 30, 2013 | 9:08 am
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Yeah they weren't really known as RIM to the youth on the street in the UK, bet there were a few meetings over it though. Very tempted to get a Q10 now especially for the video BBM.
Jan 30, 2013 | 9:22 am
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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......
If Blackberry get this right, they can have a very easy path to growth, compared to other new entrants......
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.
Jan 30, 2013 | 9:28 am
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