the upcoming blackberry looks nice!
 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMwEvNzUsAAe8KH.jpg:large

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/blackberr...096542694.html

im excited for this phone cause i prefer real keyboards. Finally this will have full droid & be a nice size phone not an odd square thing. sign me up.

:)

Looks solid

Ya pimp shit right there huh

Bad ass.

No info on tech specs.

Any idea what size of hard drive they might be carrying?

I thought I would never get used to using a glass keyboard but now.... Can't imagine ever going back.

Same here. Replaced the real keyboard on a Motorola Milestone with the SGS4 glass. Gotten used to it.

Are they making the emulator for Android apps still? Might give it a try if it works well.

Still wasting 25% of the overall size on that stupid keyboard I see.

Nice but not a fan of keyboard

It's a curved glass, slider phone. Keyboard sides in and full touchscreen as any current smartphone. With just the option to slide out the actual keyboard if you want to really hammer away at emails and messages.

Always been a BlackBerry fanboy. Guess who's current contract ends in December? Yum... lets hope its released in the UK in Nov too

Rumored specs: 5.4-inch Quad-HD screen, a 1.8GHz 64-bit hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor, 3GB RAM, as well as an 18-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.

Nice but gonna be so few apps for it, some people will return it. Same as Windows phone, not enough apps

BB phones now run android via amazon apps. This phone is rumored to take that even further and run on Android Lolipop heavily modified to be more BB10 with hub etc. But you can run 90% of all android Apps on any BB10 phone right now.

Missing Apple Logo :winkwink:

who uses fucking keypad these days?

it's gonna fail

Doesn't matter how good their phone is. It's about the software market and lack thereof.

PS: This was my first blackberry:

http://i.imgur.com/yJxEZmL.jpg

i like a good old fashioned RIM... :thumbsup

:1orglaugh as am I :thumbsup not sure when my contract is up, must check :Graucho

Business people. And that's where Blackberry will have its greatest impact, where it always used to, in business and corporate environments. They stumbled a bit and lost some contracts to iPhone and Samsung, but some are returning to what many perceive as the only business-oriented phone out there.

Not everyone wants, or cares about, apps or games. They simply want a phone to be more in tune with business --> phone, efficient emails (properly formatted, not txt speak gibberish), and occasionally check an intranet site, or internet site as the case may be. Not for surfing, playing games, listening to music, etc.

My brother-in-law works for Chevron and they switched out all employee phones for iPhones and people there overwhelmingly hated it because, in his words (he's an exec there), it's not a business phone. It's a "social consumer phone". He figures they're going back to Blackberry one their next contract as well. The "Classic" and the "Passport" are the two he says he's evaluating. Personally, I think the Passport is obnoxiously big, like most smartphones these days.

you can forget about 2 handed typing in landscape mode on that device. for business, typing with a thumb only? hmm


not seeing the business benefit of that.

On their new one in the OP, I agree completely. I think more corporate clients will gravitate toward the tried and true Classic model, or larger Passport model.

who needs a keyboard on a phone these days?

Like Apple, Blackberry makes high end hardware. A flagship Blackberry Android phone could convince me to go back to Android full time, if done right.

Looks like an iPhone with a keyboard.

Not bad, good stuff :pimp

I was at the unveiling, got a couple snaps before they turned it on.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p...ce_odyssey.png


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4MBJGPdZ8c...h06m36s120.png

i couldnt get blackbery passport , but i guess, i ll go for this one .

:thumbsup:thumbsup

Looks really awesome.... :)