BlackBerry 10 unveiled (formerly BBX)

Ricochet J · 3 May 2012 at 08:46

Here's hoping for a BBX with a sliding keyboard.

Magic_x_uk · 3 May 2012 at 15:42

I quite like how (I Have no idea how he did it though)
His phone pictures etc, suddenly appeared on his big tv?

DiCe! · 3 May 2012 at 16:26

I hope the keyboard is improved from the torch, that is a pile of ****.

Columbo · 3 May 2012 at 16:40

Possibly too little too late but it does look quite good imo.

If priced aggressively and marketed correctly then it may just be RIM's rescue but it does need releasing very very soon.

robgmun · 3 May 2012 at 16:53

I would dismiss this out of hand if it wasn't for the fact that the Playbook and it's OS v2 is getting a lot of praise at the moment.

manveruppd · 4 May 2012 at 02:48

SKILL said:
Out of curiosity, What exactly do you expect to get from BB10 that you don't get from Android as far as '*nix OS' stuff goes?

QNX isn't exactly a commonly used product outside very proprietary systems, and it's not overly compatible with the other *nixes anyway, I don't see that it offers much over Android with the exception possibly of using Qt, but from a brief overview much of the Qt stuff will be 'hidden' behind API's anyway...

Well it's not that I want a Unix-based OS per se, I mean it's a phone not a passenger airliner!

It's that I want a fully-featured OS period. Android and iOS might be *nix OSs themselves but it's not like you can do stuff with them that you can do on your desktop. Meego would've been preferable to QNX because that's much closer to standard Linux and apparently you can just recompile applications for ARM and they'll just run on it! But it looks like Nokia has completely abandoned it so unless Intel steps up QNX is the best we'll get.

sharingan_sasuk said:
The only reason I still loved my Blackberrys was the keyboard. I found it more comfortable and easier to type those long business emails and conversations. Now my initial thought is why get it if you can get an Android or iPhone? My guess is because of corporate users wanting to stick with them.

You might still get it, RIM have always been pretty good at having different form factors for people to choose whichever they prefer. Hopefully they won't go the "one black slate fits all" route like everyone else.

Caged · 4 May 2012 at 02:53

It doesn't matter how good the software ends up being, the company couldn't market its way out of a paper bag so nobody will know it exists, let alone buy one. It's a company that releases new handsets without auto-focus cameras and has an email system that can't sync read/unread status without running your own BES. Added to this they insist on funnelling everything through their own servers, which adds no value at all, and barely works at the best of times. And then it goes down for a week and nobody at RIM seems too bothered about getting it back up.

Sorry, but the only value I can see for them continuing to exist is to provide some competition and keep Apple/HTC in check in terms of pricing and innovation. They won't be selling me a phone any time soon. I made that mistake once, never again.

Also, they still sell the Curve 8520 which is a 2009 model (and utter garbage). They seem too busy focusing on getting the developing world using their handsets than actually competing at the high end.