“RIM CEO and possible Bond villain Thorstein Heins gave the world its best look at BlackBerry 10 today; while previous demos had focused on the camera and keyboard, this morning focused on even more everyday features,” Brian Barrett reports for Gizmodo. “It looks like it does some things very well—and that they’re not the things you’d care about.”
“This new peek, combined with what we saw earlier this year, gives the impression of a very competent mobile operating system. But it’s also one that we’re still months and months away from, during which time more and more companies will switch on over to iPhones and Androids and, with Windows 8 synergies kicking in just next month, WP8,” Barrett writes. “And more than that, even if it were to arrive today — even if it had arrived last fall — BB10 seems to serve very few masters. It’s a great OS for browbeaten, unorganized, over-caffeinated, multilingual business persons sure. But how many of us does that really describe? Outside, that is, of RIM’s own CEO.”
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MacDailyNews Take: There will be no BlackBerry 11.
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Every blackberry I have used….you have invoke the menu. And scroll down 2 entire screens to get to the compose e-mail function….
just my $0.02
At least BB doesn’t have apple’s crap maps app. 🙂
Check this out: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/25/iphone-5-lumia-920-image-stabilization-face-off/
In an effort to give you a little creditability tell me about the parts that are not crappy.
@ larry
LOL
Are you drunk? Don’t you know what is going on with apple’s crap maps app??? 🙂
Check this one too: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/09/26/nokia-lumia-920-beats-iphone-5-with-video-image-stabilization/
Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Dead-on!
To me, Heins means beans… and I don’t mean java.
The on and off function is a feature. lol
No hum.
MDN want to bet? RIM will be just fine. Will they ever overtake Apple, Android or Windows Phone? Nobody knows and I mean nobody. They have 80 million users and still represent the most secure mobile platform out there bar none.
Let see what the lay of the land looks like by this time next year. No iSlaves issues with RIM, no copycat issues, no fragmentation issues a la Android and their QNX OS that is pretty damn cool and easy on resources.
I dont think your analysis is correct.
1. Apple will sell 100 million iPhones in the next year – a lot of them to Blackberry users.
2. Phones move fast because they are cheap (relatively) and everyone must have one. Its a cheap way to have the latest thing. Black berry is rapidly being forgotten.
3. Applications are vital, and Blackberry isnt in the game.
4. BYOD is increasingly the case at offices. Why not let the employee bring his own phone, then the co. saves cash. iPhone is accepted EVERYWHERE.
5. RIM is out of cash and they just dont have the money to fight against Apple and Google.
6. They have announced to the world that they are failing by discounting the Playbook to $100 in some places. That does NOT inspire confidence.
7. They simply aren’t any more ‘secure’ than the iPhone. Any organisation can set up a bunch of iPhones, give them custom apps and keep them all under their own server at the office. No need to pay anyone else to host the service. Apple SDK is free.
RIM will sell their patents to someone and close the doors by this time next year. They have had their day in the sun.
Not sure about your opinion about its survival but it’s true that blackberry has the best messenger and priority email. For other features you can always turn to other mobile platform.
Poor poor pathetic RIM. Their system looks like it’s right out of 2006. So are their talking points.
Also for your information RIM CEO and dipshit stage guy, ‘BBM’ is not in any of the major online dictionaries. Just lying for applause I guess, LOL.
Will the company be alive by the time this tired, ugly system even ships?
Packard, Deusenberg, Studebaker, Hudson and others were great in their day…
So was RIM…
It is all over but the gravestone: “RIM, they didn’t keep up!”
RIP RIM
Is RIM still in business? Oh, I did not know that.
I am confused by this article. Blackberry…. isn’t that a small tart fruit that grows on a thorny plant?
iPhone 5 looks boring with fail map app. Blackberry 10 look promising though. Great job RIM!
Are you for real!
Blabkberry is 10x better than android… Too bad it’s not ‘free, open’ nonsense or else it would be VERY popular
too much fighting talk from Crackberry, but no walk the walk. Thier so called BBM was instrumental in the financial melt down and London riots, the crooks used BBM to carry out nasty things. Bet its also popular with al Queda lot due to the protection BBM offers. The sooner this BITCH CRACKberry dies the better. all hail the new KING that is Apple iphone
black who?
I know one thing at least. BlackBerry push mail works reliably 100% of the time. Apple iOS 6 push mail on the other hand is fucked beyond belief.
Didn’t they have a major email outage across Europe on the day the iPhone 5 went on sale?
Yeah, but then you have to be seen walking around in public holding a Blackberry. My company made me do that for years and it was degrading.
I went from BB to Galaxy 15 days ago. I wish I haven’t bought an ipad before, the experience would have been better. I feel my galaxy is a peace of crap when I compare it to ios.
Why I bought the Galaxy, I bought it for several reasons:
a. The iphone was at the end of a cycle.
b. And the most important is that I’m cheap.
I’ll never buy an app on a Galaxy on the other hand I’ve paid for lots of apps for my ipad. Oh and about Androids and Samsung main complaints like the os fragmentation, impossibility to upgrade the os, inferior screen, battery life (worst ever) I have to tell you is the truth. I had to experience that myself to believe it.