Dr Hu

Once the darling of Mobile Phones.... seems its truly fecked now...

over £1bn losses - 40% staff cut - how long before it goes under?

BlackBerry has lost its niche of 'email on a phone' when any tinpot device does this with ease now.... no one wants to carry 2 phones - business & personal....

Discuss

paulr

I had a blackberry pearl. Fantastic phone, it's a shame they got complacent.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

They missed the upgrade cycle 2-3 years ago, and lost a lot of ground on the competition, and have been playing catchup ever since. I've not used the new ones (nor know of anyone with one) but I hear they are pretty good, but not good enough to warrant moving to them.

Other than Blackberry Messenger there's no real USP. I wouldn't want to be holding any shares in them that's for sure.

Boro

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Even Blackberry Messenger isn't a USP any more >>> http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blackb...e-date-delayed

RIM lost the plot ages ago and thought the Z10 might save it, but too little, too late, the new bigger Z30 won't chagne anything either. It's doomed.

Midlife......

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Should have stuck to the niche business end...........all our NHS manager side have corporate Blackberry's and I guess a lot of companies are the same.

Shaun

boxst

They are being slowly swapped out though. My (very large) company has now swapped to Androids and iPhones.

Turbohot

You're right.

I can't see North Wales Police Force giving out Apple phones to their officers.

Anyway, I got the tail end of the Newsnight the other day. A learned folk seemed to be forecasting that after Nokia being 1st to go and then Blackberry as the 2nd one, it will be Apple on the third place to disappear for good. Apparently it will be completely eaten up by its competitors much sooner than we think. I'm sure Fandroids would have a hell of a disco with beers and pizza that day.

I'm an Apple fan, so a bit of a sad thing to look forward to. Apple bosses would have made enough money to feed their few forthcoming generations by then, so they won't give two hoots.

paulr

Arrogance will kill Apple. Don't like Safari...."..tough.

Still the best hardware manufacturer out there though.

mart360

Looks like a buyer has been found


Just seen this on crackbery.com

http://crackberry.com/fairfax-financ...rry-47-billion


Mart

JGlanzaV

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Love my blackberrys, had them since the first bold and the only one i broke was one i took down a mine with me, dropping it down a mine hsaft into 5ft of water would do that to any phone i suppose!

I like the fact it has proper keys, cant get my head round touch screen!

paulr

Not just me then.

jonc

Blackberry can't be that fecked, they just bought themselves a new corporate jet .....

mart360

Would rather have keys or a joystick anyday

Mart

Dr Hu

Yeah... In July! But thats about to go, with the other two dassaults they have.... They will shortly have no planes!! Three to none in 2 months!

Jamz3k

I miss my faithful blackberry, the samsung I replaced it with is awful in comparison.

I really miss the battery life, twice in the last month I've been stuck in tricky drunken situations with a completely dead phone. Never had that issue with the bb.

SirFozzalot

I've got a blackberry as a work phone, horrid thing, had it over a year now and still don't like it, much preferred the iPhone I had for a while.

hodgy0_2

I am amazed at how much "functionality" people will trade for p1ss poor battery life

dpb

That'll learn em for not putting bb10 on my playbook

Dr Hu

I think it was the playbook that was the beginning of the end... They launched it where it could only be tethered to an existing blackberry... Madness

dpb

Really ?

, this one tethers to anything

urban

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The blackberry for me was a useful device which served a very good purpose.

It did of course lack a lot of functionality that my windows lumia phone has.
However, the bb didn't need charged every day.

An0n0m0us

The only thing that can save Blackberry is to go to Android OS even if they slightly customise it however they will have to allow the Google Play market as apps is what sells phones and the Blackberry app store is pitiful. BBM is now available for Android and IOS and so there is nothing about Blackberry's OS to attract any customers. If they want to survive then Android is their only answer.

paulr

Probably a good way to go, but I never used any apps on my BB. Well made, good voice quality, four day battery, really nice cases. They did the basics really well. I also really liked the led that stuck out the top with notifications. I miss my old Pearl.
Blackberry has a future, don't try and copy everyone else. I don't want to hold a bloody tablet to my ear when talking to people.