Blackberry 10 Thread
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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.
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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.
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Well you can sideload Android apps on the Playbook and I suspect therefore that you can do the same with BB10. Porting apps over to BB10 from a developer point of view is also a very painless process as your Android versions should work with only minor tweaks. For some users the news that Angry Birds (the Jedi one) is confirmed as coming to BB10 will be important, for others it won't. I'm looking forward to seeing it [BB10 not Angry Birds ] in action, possibly on my Playbook if I don't find the money to upgrade my phone anytime soon.
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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
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Skype and Kindle have just been confirmed as apps and now I must stop watching and do some work.
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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......
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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.
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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.
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