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In the ridiculously-obvious-statement of the day, the whole spectrum of UK carriers have announced that they’ll be foisting BB10 onto hapless and uneducated customers come 2013. No sh*t Sherlock.
What does this mean for you? Well, if you’re one of those people (and they’re out there somewhere) who just has to have BBM and a crappy web browser, then you’ll be able to get your fix from any of the UK’s carriers come BB10′s launch early 2013. For the rest of us, it means we’ll still have over-pushy salesman talking crap about how we “have” to have a Blackberry ‘cos it’s the “best for email” every time we walk into a phone shop. Balls.
What do you reckon, though? Do you think BB10 will be the salvation of poor ailing RIM, or the desperate death-knell for a company that’s been on the endangered species list for far too long? Let us know down below.
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I’d love to see how much the carrier heads laughed when RIM started offering network exclusivity to them
“you can have exclusivity of our new Blackberry 10 phone on your network!”
“alright, well, let’s see what shit hampers we get for Christmas from clients, and see if we can work out a trade?”
i stopped caring about bb10 when i read my current BES server wont support the new devices…. and the new server wont support my old BES devices….
That is what is known as an “Epic Fail”
The moment Apple and Android upped their security protocols for Exchange Active Sync, I dropped BES like the turd that it is. Never again…
I didn’t know that, they’ve massively shot themselves in the foot there.
Blackberry are constantly given a hard time (most of through their own doing) BUT if it has the same build quality and feel as the playbook it could be a hit with its WebOS style multitasking.
I for one will give it a try as i do with every other phone that comes along. I am a little worried however that they have less apps, at a higher price than even windows phone! Not good!
let hope it does not have that playbook battery fault and some apps then ..
Do you like the feel of a powerless brick in your hands
There is only one way out for RIM, one magic word, “FIRE SALE” (sorry I said one word). Budget phone with a short burst of sale, kind of what Google doing with N4, this trick works everytime
Can you imagine if RIM came out with a must-have phone and sold it for a cut-throat price like Google. Ha. That would be amazing.
“If” in this instance is a very big word.
‘If’.
Wishful thinking I guess
I’m guessing BB10 will have matching high-end specs like iPhone5 and N4, but even if they pitch it for £250 mark, will people really buy it? The lack of app is perhaps RIM’s Achilles’ heel. They even tried paying developers to make at least the most propular apps I think? May be they should had hired devs for app migration. A steep uphill climb for RIM I guess, feel a bit sorry for them though but they are to blame for not being careful/thoughful about the app market.
Its quite shocking how much the Nexus 4 is! Im hoping that it will drive down the price of the iPhone
What do i reckon? I reckon some of this sites journos are nothing but arrogant, cynical fools. I’ve never owned a blackberry phone in my life but i would if it suited my needs better than the competition, something that would be non existent if writers like this had their way. Competition is a good thing, without it the tech world would quickly become stale. Time to get grounded and do some proper reporting because from where i’m standing you don’t look particularly hip or clever while riding the same stupid fadwagon as everybody else.
Or, maybe because RIM have spent years with their fingers in their ears and have taken even longer than Nokia to see where the trends in business and personal devices were going and then having multiple issues with the one thing they were supposedly good at and then taking forever in bringing out newer but inferior versions of their OS and about 10 models of phone that are in actuality all exactly the same.
I have used every major modern mobile OS and I can tell you from personal experience that BlackBerry OS would be ranked somewhere at the bottom, possibly just above Symbian.
Fair enough, but this article is about a brand new, yet to be released BB10, not any incarnations you may have tried on the old small, low res screens of yore. Save judgement until it is released.
Chris Mills is doing the same, criticising something he obviously has no knowledge of based on something else entirely. All impartial tests so far show the BB10 browser shines, kicking sand in the face of the current opposition, even desktop browsers. Mills however insists it is “a crappy web browser” because a different browser he has used on a different phone on a different OS gave that impression!
Judgement sans knowledge just comes across as foolish IMO.
It’s all about demand, it seems like there isn’t much.
I work within the mobile industry providing companies with handsets, the majority of devices that my team pass through are iPhones, Samsung S3′s, note 2′s and the occasional zany director after a Lumia. Before all of these devices were released I was hounded by my customers for release dates and things they can do with their next batch of handsets. Not one person has enquired about BB10.
I’ve got ties to some stores and from what I can tell their main market for blackberry devices is 13 year old girls, they’re just buying the bold now… Unfortunately unless blackberry pull out something incredible that’s where their market will stay.
Anyone remember the trouble blackberry had trying to demo BB10 and it disobeying them during the presentation. I’ll undoubtedly use one, it just might end up in the depths of a filing cabinet If it doesn’t stack up.
Believe me i have no love for Blackberry even if i do think the playbook is still the best 7″ tablet for the money!
It’s just the bad reporting that irks me. I would barely accept such a scathing and ignorant critique if we were on an IOS or Android specific site but Gizmodo is aimed at all gadgets and tech and related NEWS. It should be a sounding board for solid, informed information. The snide comments in this article however are barely forum flamer material let alone passing muster as competent tech journalism!
Obviously C.M. doesn’t like Blackberry but i’d rather he kept his playground politics to himself, it just comes across as immature. Then again this is the same guy who is wetting his pants over a plastic replica Half Life gravity gun.
I can only speak for myself but i take with a pinch of salt anything written by someone who sounds like they are still weaning themselves off their nerfgun and hasbro lightsaber!
If you ever spent a minute in London underground or any other public transport your opinion would be different. At least 1/4 of every phone I see is a BB. But this is not the point nerdfly is making he is saying that Gizmodo, is either speculating with provocative information like the browser being shit. (Which funnily enough is completely the opposite, just for the sake of the argument head to http://html5test.com/results/mobile.html ) Or the level of journalism around here fallen to a such low level below objectiveness, that this is becoming ghastly.
Bashing one particular mobile OS for three straight days, before even testing it out can only mean 3 things.
1) This drives a lot of traffic.
2) Gizmodo missed out on BB marketing money in 2013, and are now acting like a bunch of sad twats.
3) Bit of both.
You may see a lot of Blackberry devices but remember that a fair percentage of them are going to be company phones provided to their staff.
There’s been a sharp increase in the number of big companies and government departments shifting from Blackberry in recent months too.
Blackberry’s market has always been geared towards businesses but lately their grip has been slipping.
They are doing quite well with teenagers who want to “BBM Innit!”
I imagine someone, somewhere will be camping outside a store.
Graham Norton or Alan Carr probably, since they camp everywhere
Did you go away for a few days, a while back?
last week I was busy finishing up for the year, so was commenting less, why?
Just curious!
Why? RIM hasn’t spent years building a cult based on stolen ideas, dodgy claims and downright fallacies, nor does it have armies of journalists sucking its cock without question or critical thought.
If it is good people will want it, I doubt it will be but lets wait and see.
Ha its another clueless blogger just spewing B.S from the inability to do a little research. A quick search will show that bb10 Web browser is faster than ios6 wp8 android firefox and chrome. It’s obvious the level of knowledge of tech on jizmodo is equal to BGR zero.
I don’t care what brand of phone you use but bashing a product before comparing to the competition just shows pure ignorance on one’s behalf.
Has jellybean found the month of December yet? What a clueless company to release a os and forget the month of December.
I take it you’re tied into a 24 month contract then
The funny thing is… people will actually buy this crap. I’m an electronic forensic analyst with some ties to Carphone Warehouse. Literally, 47% of the repairs Carphone receives into it’s stores are BlackBerrys devices, I’d say it’s a pretty poor track record seeing as BlackBerry only hold 17% market share in the UK – most of which comprise of 15-year-olds.
I use to have a blackberry, I had the 8900 for a couple of years, a good robust phone at the time even though it lacked in apps and was over complicated.
I upgraded to the torch and had three pack up on me in less than 12 months… I told O2 to place their torch where the sun doesnt shine..
My daughter had a blackberry as well, cant remember which model but she got through two of them in 12 months as well!
You were lucky yours lasted 12 months. We get on average 14 people per day that haven’t made it to 4 months because of the fading display, track pad failing, RF falling out of calibration, dust collecting under the screen, static build up under the screen (White LCD), earpiece and speaker faults.
Chris Mills, the web browser on BB10 actually performs better in the HTML5 tests than the iPhone. You haven’t even USED a BB10 phone, so you’re equally “hapless and uneducated” as well as “biased” and “a terrible journalist”.
What blackberry have you got?