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Are you tired of typing things into your phone using a touchpad? Talking to the phone to write a text like some boomer? Swiping in words which never come out right like some preteen girl? Stuck between the freedom to charge your iphone anywhere and filing an insurance claim due to fire damage? Did your phone break when you tried to beat a small animal/insect to death?
You can still buy a blackberry. The Q10, Classic, Passport, Priv, and Keyone are all available and wonderful alternatives to anything else offered.
Here are the reasons why
1. Physical keyboard. Typing speed is faster and better. Don't have to deal with any of the shit of using a touch keyboard (although the physical keyboard does have touch functionalities for gestures on the priv).
2. You can kill literally anything with it. I threw it a fly and killed the fly, I threw it at a spider and killed a spider, I beat a bug to death against a wall and the phone still worked.
3. The interface is this fancy ass shit where you can swipe to the up-left/center/right to open preset applications
4. The hub for dealing with messages/emails is far superior than anything else that has ever existed.
5. Monthly patches to make sure everything stays working good forever
6. Passport/Classic/Q10 has a 1:1 ratio because they care about your experience.
7. You can flush it down the toilet, run over it with your truck, have it fall into snow, and drop it on concrete and there will be no problems at all. Minor scratches are character building.
8. When it does break its really easy to repair, no bs welded in battery.
9. They never break, you can have six or seven replacement phones because you want a new one and the old one still works fine.
10. BBOS is great and not android or apple.
11. Stock earbuds have these swappable heads with little loops on them and they actually stay in your ears really well.
12. Not bogged down by all the shitty apps you want but don't need (Unless on Priv or Keyone)
13. Lasted longer than Palm
You can still pick these up for pretty reasonable prices considering the quality you get out of them. If your main concern is an excellent phone that you can do email with, BB is best choice.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 06 2017, @05:40PM
Matthew 12:31-32 12:31
Mark 3:28-29
Luke 12:10
And yes, I realize that isn't what you meant, but I had that ready to go before I read your post.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday September 06 2017, @09:03PM (1 child)
Hasn't Blackberry switched to all Android, of which there is no going back [soylentnews.org]?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 08 2017, @04:09PM
Yes, all Android, though nothing announced with Oreo. the Priv and DTEK are all on Marshmellow (6.x) and the KeyOne is Nougat. Take note that the Keyone is the first phone by BlackBerry Mobile, the "joint" venture between BlackBerry (god, they must feel stupid for rebranding the company from RIM to BlackBerry, then abondoning the BlackBerry brand entirely) and TCL Corporation. Supposedly the actual BlackBerry had worked on the Keyone, so it may be the "Last True BB". TCL has announced a waterproof slate for next year as the next to be branded BlackBerry, and they previously supplied the hardware for the DTEK50 and 60 slates.
Really, watching the comments and forum posts over the last few years at Crackberry has been interesting. For a long time there was a big call to release an Android BB, usually the Passport. And then when they finally did, the realization that the end was near creaped in, slowly becoming dejected acceptance. There was a lot of talk of a final BBOS10 release, but at this point everyone knows there will be no 10.4 and even the Priv will probably not get the Android 7 update. Too bad, will have to see if TCL cares or is just going to wring the last drops of value out before casting the husk away.
Sent from my BlackBerry Passport SE 10.3.3.1435
(Score: 2) by Snow on Thursday September 07 2017, @08:58PM
It's great phone. The BlackBerry softkeyboard is great. Android isn't all crapped up with customizations either.