“Even BlackBerry Ltd. couldn’t resist taking a jab at the bendability of world’s most popular phone,” Toronto Star reports.
“BlackBerry, introducing its new Passport device for business customers today, saw an opening emerge from user complaints that the newest iPhones get bent and warped in people’s pockets,” Toronto Star reports. “‘I would challenge you guys to bend our Passport,’ John Chen, Blackberry’s chief executive officer, said at the unveiling of the Passport smartphone Wednesday in Toronto.”
Toronto Star reports, “The reports of bending iPhones follow record demand for the devices, with over 10 million sold in their debut last weekend.”
MacDailyNews Take: The reports are FUD and the vast majority of the world’s so-called news media is more bent than any iPhone will ever be. Totally broken is more like it.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen should be embarrassed, but when you’re fighting for your very survival due to the absolute devastation the iPhone has ravaged upon your tiny, little, failing outfit, we guess honesty and integrity fly right out the window in favor of spreading FUD.
Oh, look, Re/code‘s Bonnie Cha has reviewed Beleaguered BlackBerry’s latest piece of crap. We don’t usually waste our time covering reviews of antiquated beard-of-buttons devices from moribund companies than will not, in its entire product lifespan, ever come close to selling as many units as Apple sold in the first 15 minutes of iPhone 6 pre-orders, but Johnny boy’s little FUDgasm has prompted us to cull some snippets:
John Chen and his Passport to nowhere• The Passport’s chance of appealing beyond the BlackBerry faithful is slim. And even some BlackBerry users might eschew the phone due to its bulky design.
• I had a hard time wrapping my hand around it. Admittedly, I have small hands, so I let a couple of my guy friends try it out, and they agreed that it was uncomfortable to hold. The phone is also not very pocket-friendly.
• There was a slight lag when opening applications and refreshing pages. There were also several occasions where the Passport briefly froze.
• The phone’s main 13-megapixel camera was also slow to focus, and picture quality wasn’t as good as on the iPhone 6.
• It’s not a good sign when you tell someone you’re testing a new BlackBerry and their response is, “They still make those?”
Johnny, Jonny, Johnny, you’ve got a Passport to nowhere.
In closing: Die with dignity, John. The level of desperation to which you are willing to stoop is unbecoming.
I understand the “challenge.” If someone accepts the challenge, that means at least ONE BlackBerry Passport will be sold. That new BlackBerry is the weirdest design for a smartphone. The screen is SQUARE… with a narrow physical keyboard along one side.
Last time anybody saw a Crackberry in the wild?
Are you serious? Is that phone that guy up there is holding ^ is a real phone? lol
It’s the first time I’ve seen it and I’ll be laughing all day.
I thought it was a spoof MDN had put together. Not sure a more ridiculous looking and shaped spoof could be made.
The only thing Blackberry’s gonna do is bend over and take it up the derriere in market share. DCW.
I am challenging Blackberry CEO to sell 10 million Blackberrys in a week.
I’m challenging the BB CEO to show me an actual Passport in a week. (Anywhere outside his headquarters, that is.)
Not even this will fly thru immigration!
month?
year?
I’d take a bent iPhone over a Blackberry.
I understand the “challenge.” If someone accepts the challenge, that means at least ONE BlackBerry Passport will be sold. That new BlackBerry is the weirdest design for a smartphone. The screen is SQUARE… with a narrow physical keyboard along one side.
I saw that online today at work. I guess it could have been worse and shaped like a disc.
I had to look up the Passport to see what it was..
USA Today article from today
“BlackBerry’s still around?
That’s a typical reaction when you mention Canada’s once-dominant but fallen smartphone maker.”
OUCH…
I wonder if BlackBerry would give me one so I can break it.
When Nathan’s has a hot dog eating challenge, they provide the hot dogs…
“The phone is also not very pocket-friendly.”
No wonder it isn’t going to bend. That, and it isn’t going to be sold/bought by anyone. At all.
Blackberry who?
Sad that BB resorts to circus sideshow antics to get attention. Very sad indeed.
Apple already bent BlackBerry – and had their way with them.
Hey Johnny: cab fare’s on the nightstand. GTFO.
2001 called and they want their BB back. Send me one for free and I’ll show you how to bend it!
How many of the 8 people who own one are going to try?
8? They sold another one!
i heard an unconfirmed number of 11 total, seems the black market in Nanuk Alaska is thriving
GRAB YOURS NOW !-)
Ah, the Blackberry crowd. They’re still trying to convince us of the merits of 8-track players.
I have a large vise and a sledge hammer. I can bend (or break) any cell phone ever made.
Now if I could just find a Blackberry Passport…
only thing I can add is, at least its not an apple clone
On the bright side, Amazon Fire phone has someone to sit by at lunch now.
Except Apple’s already eaten their lunch.
John Chen: “I would challenge you guys to bend our Passport!”
Me (to John Chen): “I would challenge you guys to sell even ONE Passport!”
It appeals to me…
I would challenge them to sell more than 50k units.
envy Envy ENVY ENVY ENVY!!!
It’s annoying being the best, eh Apple?
The most telling thing in the video review was when he said, “Business users are also consumers…”
And that was Jobs’ vision. Make a device that everyone wanted to take to work.
Can’t bend it if yiu don’t buy it.
BB Passport makes the original Brick Phone look like a design statement.