Android Chief caught blackhanded....

Myshra · 26 Jul 2011 at 10:41

I'd use it if I was in his position because of the full end to end encryption for Email with private certs (and handsets), a feature you can only really fully do on BB's. This sort of encryption is possible on Android but it's not as neat and effortless. I'm not aware of any publicly available BB Handset that supports Call Encryption though (aside from the built in GSM/UMTS setup).

For the record nearly every phone is the same when receiving signal and at most they vary by about 5% in lab conditions. What's more important is how many calls are going through the network cell tower / half-rate mode being enabled / how you hold it

There is the odd handset that is REALLY bad (A Cheap Samsung from 2008 has the record at 6%+ drop call rate afaik) but by and large every handset has between 1 and 3% drop call rate.

Robbo · 26 Jul 2011 at 10:46

Richdog said:
Of course they're not "as good", but your statement was rather more knee-jerky than that, in typical Robbo style.

Richdog · 26 Jul 2011 at 10:52

Robbo said:

Yas786 · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:07

Psypher5 said:
bb is a business phone... no?

LOL what 15-20 yr olds that have BB's are business users are they?? lol...maybe 5 -10 yrs ago they were the domain of business ussers but they have become a lot more user friendly...obv they arent as pretty as Android or the iphone devices but they are more than capable devices now.

Psypher5 · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:11

thats my point, they are related to that (or where) and are now trying to latch onto the younger market (everyone i know pretty much has a bb) which to me is silly as i've always seen them as a business orientated phone

Yas786 · 26 Jul 2011 at 12:51

Psypher5 said:
thats my point, they are related to that (or where) and are now trying to latch onto the younger market (everyone i know pretty much has a bb) which to me is silly as i've always seen them as a business orientated phone

Of course BB's bread and butter is still the enterprise/business market...how else do you explain their industry leading security on all their devices.

But with the emergence of the iphone and Android handsets, the BB had to become more consumer friendly which they still lag behind android and iphone but the new BB devices with OS7 which are being released in the next few mths should close the gap a bit and with QNX being released next year sometime on BB devices, its looking pretty good...i have a playbook that runs on QNX and im simply amazed at how well it runs. QNX is the future of BB devices...

Raikiri · 26 Jul 2011 at 13:39

Spawn said:
LOL what 15-20 yr olds that have BB's are business users are they?? lol...maybe 5 -10 yrs ago they were the domain of business ussers but they have become a lot more user friendly...obv they arent as pretty as Android or the iphone devices but they are more than capable devices now.

No they're chavs using 'em for the free BBM

Yas786 · 26 Jul 2011 at 13:47

Raikiri said:
No they're chavs using 'em for the free BBM

Perhaps if you did some reading on the subject, you would learn that BBM isnt exactly free...you need a BB data plan which costs about £5 a mth on top of your tariff but most networks bundle it in now with their tariffs.

Anyhow i just find it funny that the head of google relies on a competitors phone rather than using his own companys devices...as Robbo said earlier Androids arent very good at being phones and this just further proves it

Myshra · 26 Jul 2011 at 13:59

I think that's RIM's gameplan for consumer currently but I'm not really one to judge as I'm more of a bystander than their target demographic. It works very well in the UK market though, much better here than the US low end consumer markets for example.

The BB tablet is OK but it's pretty amusing that it shipped requiring a BB - I honestly think that was a fairly large mistake from RIM and considerably crippled it's potential adoption base.

Yas786 · 26 Jul 2011 at 14:49

Myshra said:
The BB tablet is OK but it's pretty amusing that it shipped requiring a BB - I honestly think that was a fairly large mistake from RIM and considerably crippled it's potential adoption base.

Not really tbh...i can easily tether my iphone4 to my playbook if need be...only thing is that theres always the chance that you could be hit with extra charges should your network find out. Luckily for me i havent been charged yet and i have used the tethering ability with my iphone4 to do browsing and watching youtube videos. But normally i just bridge the playbook to my 9780 and browse the web and youtube videos when im out and about. So yes in effect you do need a BB device if you dont want to incur extra charges but so far i havent when tethered to my iphone4.

But i do agree that it was somewhat silly that RIM shipped the wifi version only, the 3G/4G version should be out later this year but really they should have waited and shipped both at the same time.

SKILL · 26 Jul 2011 at 18:20

Spawn said:
Shock horror the Google Android chief has been caught blackhanded(geddit??) using a Blackberry 9780 Bold...you couldnt make this shizzle up if you tried lol.

Now i wonder if Jobsy uses an Android or a Blackberry secretly

http://crackberry.com/caught-black-...raphed-while-taking-photo-his-blackberry-agai

Just a minor point that I feel I need to point out, Eric Schmidt is not and has never been the 'Google Android Chief' (that would be Andy Rubin, no idea if he uses a Blackberry...), he is 'simply' the Chairman, or until recently-ish the CEO

Although I'm guessing saying Google Chairman doesn't quite reach the same levels of hilarity...