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What killed the blackberry it’s the lack of apps, picture quality and everything that made the iPhone a easy casual phone for everyone. Not only a phone for exe
by Baguette5242 3y ago
What killed the blackberry it’s the lack of apps, picture quality and everything that made the iPhone a easy casual phone for everyone. Not only a phone for executives in their 40’s
For emails, connectivity and messaging, BlackBerrys were insanely good. As soon as you stepped out of these fields, it sucked.
I still believe there’s a (niche) room for a keyboard smartphone.
- rogerkirkness 3y agoSignal and iMessage really only recently caught up with how awesome BBM was.
- paradox460 3y agoI miss BBM all the time. I wonder what would have happened if RIM didn't try to treat it like a garden gate, and instead opened it up, or put apps on other platforms early on
- an_aparallel 3y agoi hope what killed the blackberry is what brings it back. a phone that has qwerty, a OLED non colour screen (to hardcode the idea of distraction free), 4g, a downloadable local map database that works without internet and can read me instructions while im driving) is made - i'll be all over it. i feel like a bot at this stage on HN banging on about the lack of options :/
- twbarber 3y agoThere are dozens of us!
- skydhash 3y agoI was too young for PDA (My introduction to tech was iPhone 3G-4 and Windows XP SP2). But I've been looking at demos on Youtube and they do practically all I need (Except calling, but I rarely do that to). I've reduced the apps I use to a similar state, but I'd like the physical keyboard back and a cursor like the the one on the Apple TV remote.
- rchaud 3y agoUnihertz has been making keyboard phones specifically for Blackberry fans for several years now. In today's world, a Kickstarter-driven, Shenzhen-based small batch manufacturing run is the best that can be expected. Cellphones aren't a billion-dollar business for anybody besides Apple, Huawei and Samsung. Only small companies will be willing to take the risk on unconventional phones, and that comes with tradeoffs like mediocre screens and cameras.
- an_aparallel 3y agoif they had a "baremetal" OS it would be perfect - the only thing stopping me getting one is that it runs on Android
- lawgimenez 3y agoI agree, back in the day I tried to setup Blackberry SDK on Eclipse and it was a miserable experience.