interesting. every day the amount of input that goes into my phone via speech-to-text increases. it seems i use the keyboard more for correcting speech-to-text than anything else. what's the quality of blackberry's speech-to-text? do they even have the function?
Yes, voice dictation in BB OS 10.3 is much better than either Android or iOS as BB spent a lot of time with it, it's a big function for business orientated usage. A lot of you are thinking of BlackBerry circa Bold 9700, the new BB OS 10 was like going from Mac OS 9.2 to OSX 10, remember that, just how much of a difference there was but still retaining it's sole. The new BlackBerry OS in my opinion is a much better OS than Android and even iOS in some areas, specifically; multitasking, notifications, email and message writing, web browsing, document and spreadsheet creation/editing, terminal remote access, file management, quick toggles, file management(had to say it twice), HDMI out, etc. When I was working I always carried a BlackBerry, the last one being a Q10, so I was really happy when I got my Porsche P'9882 because I missed it, even more so now that I have a Passport.
Lots of negative comments for something that none of you have even tried yet. All of you still use a mechanical keyboard for your laptops and desktop computers, I can argue that your a little old fashion as well when there a perfectly fine touchscreen out there. A keyboard on a phone is still a very useful thing, especially on a the BB as you can also use it as trackpad, which makes editing documents 10x easier, not to mention typing. The Passport has also proved to be popular as it's the first phone BB has released that sold out of stock in less than 2 days. Nothing on the level of what Apple sells but BB is also no longer a large company. They are now considered a niche market and as long as they keep those customers happy with fantastic device like the Passport they should continue to be just fine. All this talk about gloom and doom for BB is blown way out of proportion here, their stock is up, sales are up, that's the very definition in the business world of being okay. They've restructured to a point where they can now be successful in their sector. I for one will be a customer for the foreseeable future. Both my children want the Passport now after seeing my husbands and mine, which is great as I never know what to get them for Christmas.
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Next week they'll be banging rocks together, sending smoke signals and learning semaphore code.
I think there is a market for this especially outside the USA, which is not the whole world. I think this is smart on their part. For low development cost they can sell these new phones to all the current bb bold owners and physical keyboard lovers. If they make the screen a little bigger and add touch capability this could do well (in bb terms, not Apple level well by any stretch) for them. Again low design costs means however many they sell will be good profit for them and may give them some much needed cash. They'll never be the powerhouse again but with this, the very niche passport and some other new products they could continue as a third level vendor.
Why are these guys still building hardware? They'd get on a lot better if they'd kill the hardware outright and switch to software and services. The reduction in costs alone would be a boon.
Why are these guys still building hardware? They'd get on a lot better if they'd kill the hardware outright and switch to software and services. The reduction in costs alone would be a boon.
Why, their profitable again, you should maybe read up on their current situation instead of clinging on to their situation a year ago.
I wish them all the best, nobody wants to see people losing their jobs, and they 've put a decent effort in their OS and services development, as well as in coming up with some very clever and interesting ui, ux and core os ideas and options, unlike the unbearable samsung, and the dead boring MS.
I am almostsure they'll pull up.
And finally someone from the tech world has taken a belated cue from Steve:
Lesson 1:
Simplify your line up
If you want people to be able to buy your products then allow them to be able to actually compare your products to each other and the competition, and let them make a simple choice instead of spending hours on the web going model over model "X32080" "P4380" "Bold" "Blue" "Bombastic" "Bombastic P20", etc.
this has the added benefit of
Lesson 2:
Cut costs, streamline production, focus all resources on making a few things perfect, instead 10 mediocre things.
Lesson 3:
Keep working on your own software, refine, and re-refine and re-re-refine it. Incorporate all current technologies that make sense. Operative work here is "own".
Lesson 4:
Focus on your core strengths: For blackberry that's the keyboard. Multitouch has been a revolution, to say the least, but unless some great haptic mechanism (iPad 12.9"???) comes along, and to me, even then, keyboards are king for input. At the very least that's their core strength.
Lesson 5:
Offer developers really good tools to work with. They 've done that.
Lesson 6:
Have uniformity in hardware built quality and design, ui and ux design and a sense for simplicity, balance, taste, functionality.
Blackberry is the dark horse here, and they re making a comeback to carve their own niche.
Hmm...would love for Apple to make a "retro device". I really miss the form factor of the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Sits perfectly in your hand. Had to get used to holding the iPhone 4S and 5s being all straight. Almost slipped out of my hands a couple of times. Plus the 3.5" screen is ideal for me. An iPhone build like the 3GS with specs of the 6 Plus? Sigh...wishful thinking.
As Blackberry moves to the past, my Playbook is dying because my PB Apps are being discontinued.
A few Apps gave a departing msg that my PB software is too out of date in function to support anymore.
I had a Playbook, only for about 6 months though before before I pawned it off to a work colleague, he asked about, here, find out for yourself. He did the same thing to someone else a month later, and so on and so on. Sometimes late at night I like to stair at the moon and let my mind drift about all of the lives that my PlayBook have shortly touch.
We have retro, pixel blocky games doing well in the App Store along with apps that turn a state of the art 8MP iPhone 6+ camera shot into something that looks as though it was taken on a broken 1960s Kodak Instamatic.
Hmm...would love for Apple to make a "retro device". I really miss the form factor of the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Sits perfectly in your hand. Had to get used to holding the iPhone 4S and 5s being all straight.
Just get an iPhone 6 Plus. You may find that it’s not 'all straight'.
Really… they said they would get out if it with the other pieces if crap they made. They need to relies that they can't do anything with smart phones and they've got 0 ground. They should bid off their patents and continue expanding BBM or something else.
After my previous BlackBerry phone lasted almost 5 years, I bought a new BlackBerry Q10 a couple months ago. I have nearly no complaints about it. It's a great phone first, and a smart phone as a bonus. My Q10 gets about 2.5 times the battery life of my work-provided iPhone 5s on long conference calls. I also type much faster and more accurately on a physical keyboard. When folks see my new BlackBerry, lots of them say they still miss their BlackBerrys. For me, the BB10 OS interface is faster to navigate than iOS. I sometime accidentally attempt BlackBerry gestures on the iPhone, expecting it to respond. The Q10 is a quality product with great battery life and is easy to use.
After my previous BlackBerry phone lasted almost 5 years, I bought a new BlackBerry Q10 a couple months ago. I have nearly no complaints about it. It's a great phone first, and a smart phone as a bonus. My Q10 gets about 2.5 times the battery life of my work-provided iPhone 5s on long conference calls. I also type much faster and more accurately on a physical keyboard. When folks see my new BlackBerry, lots of them say they still miss their BlackBerrys. For me, the BB10 OS interface is faster to navigate than iOS. I sometime accidentally attempt BlackBerry gestures on the iPhone, expecting it to respond. The Q10 is a quality product with great battery life and is easy to use.
To bad this is your first post, they almost believed you.
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interesting. every day the amount of input that goes into my phone via speech-to-text increases. it seems i use the keyboard more for correcting speech-to-text than anything else. what's the quality of blackberry's speech-to-text? do they even have the function?
Yes, voice dictation in BB OS 10.3 is much better than either Android or iOS as BB spent a lot of time with it, it's a big function for business orientated usage. A lot of you are thinking of BlackBerry circa Bold 9700, the new BB OS 10 was like going from Mac OS 9.2 to OSX 10, remember that, just how much of a difference there was but still retaining it's sole. The new BlackBerry OS in my opinion is a much better OS than Android and even iOS in some areas, specifically; multitasking, notifications, email and message writing, web browsing, document and spreadsheet creation/editing, terminal remote access, file management, quick toggles, file management(had to say it twice), HDMI out, etc. When I was working I always carried a BlackBerry, the last one being a Q10, so I was really happy when I got my Porsche P'9882 because I missed it, even more so now that I have a Passport.
Lots of negative comments for something that none of you have even tried yet. All of you still use a mechanical keyboard for your laptops and desktop computers, I can argue that your a little old fashion as well when there a perfectly fine touchscreen out there. A keyboard on a phone is still a very useful thing, especially on a the BB as you can also use it as trackpad, which makes editing documents 10x easier, not to mention typing. The Passport has also proved to be popular as it's the first phone BB has released that sold out of stock in less than 2 days. Nothing on the level of what Apple sells but BB is also no longer a large company. They are now considered a niche market and as long as they keep those customers happy with fantastic device like the Passport they should continue to be just fine. All this talk about gloom and doom for BB is blown way out of proportion here, their stock is up, sales are up, that's the very definition in the business world of being okay. They've restructured to a point where they can now be successful in their sector. I for one will be a customer for the foreseeable future. Both my children want the Passport now after seeing my husbands and mine, which is great as I never know what to get them for Christmas.
Next week they'll be banging rocks together, sending smoke signals and learning semaphore code.
Hah, that would be awesome.
Why are these guys still building hardware? They'd get on a lot better if they'd kill the hardware outright and switch to software and services. The reduction in costs alone would be a boon.
Why are these guys still building hardware? They'd get on a lot better if they'd kill the hardware outright and switch to software and services. The reduction in costs alone would be a boon.
Why, their profitable again, you should maybe read up on their current situation instead of clinging on to their situation a year ago.
New BB Line up, simple.
I wish them all the best, nobody wants to see people losing their jobs, and they 've put a decent effort in their OS and services development, as well as in coming up with some very clever and interesting ui, ux and core os ideas and options, unlike the unbearable samsung, and the dead boring MS.
I am almost sure they'll pull up.
And finally someone from the tech world has taken a belated cue from Steve:
Lesson 1:
Simplify your line up
If you want people to be able to buy your products then allow them to be able to actually compare your products to each other and the competition, and let them make a simple choice instead of spending hours on the web going model over model "X32080" "P4380" "Bold" "Blue" "Bombastic" "Bombastic P20", etc.
this has the added benefit of
Lesson 2:
Cut costs, streamline production, focus all resources on making a few things perfect, instead 10 mediocre things.
Lesson 3:
Keep working on your own software, refine, and re-refine and re-re-refine it. Incorporate all current technologies that make sense. Operative work here is "own".
Lesson 4:
Focus on your core strengths: For blackberry that's the keyboard. Multitouch has been a revolution, to say the least, but unless some great haptic mechanism (iPad 12.9"???) comes along, and to me, even then, keyboards are king for input. At the very least that's their core strength.
Lesson 5:
Offer developers really good tools to work with. They 've done that.
Lesson 6:
Have uniformity in hardware built quality and design, ui and ux design and a sense for simplicity, balance, taste, functionality.
Blackberry is the dark horse here, and they re making a comeback to carve their own niche.
As Blackberry moves to the past, my Playbook is dying because my PB Apps are being discontinued.
A few Apps gave a departing msg that my PB software is too out of date in function to support anymore.
How is a loss "profitable"?
http://press.blackberry.com/content/dam/bbCompany/Desktop/Global/PDF/Investors/Documents/2015/Q2_FY2015_Press_Release.pdf
I had a Playbook, only for about 6 months though before before I pawned it off to a work colleague, he asked about, here, find out for yourself. He did the same thing to someone else a month later, and so on and so on. Sometimes late at night I like to stair at the moon and let my mind drift about all of the lives that my PlayBook have shortly touch.
Blackberry could be onto a winner!
Hmm...would love for Apple to make a "retro device". I really miss the form factor of the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Sits perfectly in your hand. Had to get used to holding the iPhone 4S and 5s being all straight.
Just get an iPhone 6 Plus. You may find that it’s not 'all straight'.
Like the CEO?
Just get an iPhone 6 Plus. You may find that it’s not 'all straight'.
Like the CEO?
I haven't testing putting a cook into my pocket, so I couldn't tell you.
Try putting a turkey baster in your pocket. It really impresses the ladies.
After my previous BlackBerry phone lasted almost 5 years, I bought a new BlackBerry Q10 a couple months ago. I have nearly no complaints about it. It's a great phone first, and a smart phone as a bonus. My Q10 gets about 2.5 times the battery life of my work-provided iPhone 5s on long conference calls. I also type much faster and more accurately on a physical keyboard. When folks see my new BlackBerry, lots of them say they still miss their BlackBerrys. For me, the BB10 OS interface is faster to navigate than iOS. I sometime accidentally attempt BlackBerry gestures on the iPhone, expecting it to respond. The Q10 is a quality product with great battery life and is easy to use.
After my previous BlackBerry phone lasted almost 5 years, I bought a new BlackBerry Q10 a couple months ago. I have nearly no complaints about it. It's a great phone first, and a smart phone as a bonus. My Q10 gets about 2.5 times the battery life of my work-provided iPhone 5s on long conference calls. I also type much faster and more accurately on a physical keyboard. When folks see my new BlackBerry, lots of them say they still miss their BlackBerrys. For me, the BB10 OS interface is faster to navigate than iOS. I sometime accidentally attempt BlackBerry gestures on the iPhone, expecting it to respond. The Q10 is a quality product with great battery life and is easy to use.
To bad this is your first post, they almost believed you.