The problem is that he is the only person I know that feels strongly about it. He actually still carries around a Charm that he has had for two years, so there are liked minded people out there. I have a friend who has many of the same feelings as you do on this topic, including lack of enthusiasm about sliders. They both share the form factor that you are referring to, although neither would qualify as high-end, even on the date of their release.
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Ever hear of the Motorola Charm? Or the Droid Pro XT610 (available in Canada only, home of the BB, as far as I know)? Not too many other people have. So, in short, there is a market out there for this type of device, but probably not large enough to justify the R&D to come out with the high end device that you want. That means that you are going to have to watch cropped or letterboxed Netflix and YouTube videos, which reduces the effective size of the display even further. Most people place more emphasis on the size and quality of the screen, and unless you have a pretty massive device, it is not going to have a standard ratio screen with a keyboard at the bottom. I do know some people that prefer a BB for texting/email, but I don't think any of them would choose that form for multi-media consumption.
In fact if I could buy one I'd be heading out early from work today to pick one up. Would people buy it? Or is desire for qwerty candybar dead in the eyes of consumers? I'm thinking GS3/1x+ type specs, but Bold form factor. The whole point of a keyboard for me, is that it is always there, right there. The Droid 4 seems to be the highest spec phone, but I don't like the sideways slider. The Motorola Admiral has the "look" I was looking for, but the specs are seriously awful. So, is there a market? I've done some digging around and found what I think is all the qwerty phones. Is that without cause? For you people who were once hardware keyboard users, how do you find the touchscreen? Is Swiftkey or Swype just as fast and easy to use? I've been using a keyboard BlackBerry for ten years, and I'm very leery of touchscreen keyboards. I was hoping for a natively written Lastpass app that tightly integrates into the BB10 browser.Īnyway, no matter what happens with BB10, BlackBerry is shedding users, and they have to go somewhere.
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I just heard back from Lastpass, and they said "We'll be supporting BB10 with our Android apps via the Android player, hopefully that provides a solution for you." Not really, sorry. BB10 looks really awesome, but I have this sinking feeling that the major apps just aren't going to be there. Well, I want tighter integration to Google services, and I want better Exchange support (out of the box please, no BES). It's great as a communicator, but I want more. With all the people abandoning BlackBerry, is there a market for a high-end keyboard Android device with a Bold form factor? I want to start this off by saying, this is not an attempt at snark.
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