I’m a committed BlackBerry user. Plan to stay with them. Don’t need no 100,000 apps. I want the Q10 because of the physical keyboard. Any other BB fans?
Now I’m committed to starting threads that get NO response. I also cast no shadow and see no reflection when I look in the mirror.
Nah I just have been busy all day
This is my make or break with BB, I love my phone and am posting on the Playbook. I hope the new phones are awesome. We shall know in a few weeks, I hope so
Cheers
Capt
You took the words right out of my mouf’ (well, all but the last four).
My People!
I’m with Sprint, and supposedly they will have the Q10 by the end of May. I’m going to rush to the store and look at it, but wait for discussions on crackberry.com before I buy.
Well, not to put to fine a point on it, but most people I know really hate the Blackberry product. Like, really, really hate it.
The only thing I can tell you about the Z10, is that in some places returns of this product are currently outnumbering its sales. (how: People who bought it at launch are returning it, and now barely anyone is buying it.) From that same article, analysts believe the Q10 will be more popular.
Well, I’m on my second BB and I love/loved both of them. <shrug>
But I am waiting to get the new one until some of the bugs are identified/worked out.
Do we know WHY “most people [you] know” hate it? (And how many people is that, btw… three or four?) I’d really be curious to know. I had read that about returns, and will read up on it.
I’m a very basic user: phone calls, email, texting, pictures, some web surfing. That’s all. I don’t want/access music or video. Don’t need any documents–I keep my work stuff separate. I don’t have one single game and not interested in any. I do use BlackBerry Traffic GPS not for directions, but to tell me travel times and road problems. My kindlefire is the intermediate step between my phone and my computer (laptop only). I don’t need my phone to BE a computer. I’m a simple woman from a simple planet.
“Most people I know” (four) either 1) put a million apps on their iPhones when they first got them and wound up removing them because the didn’t use them and the apps just sucked memory, or 2) don’t have the faintest clue how to access the vast capabilities of the iPhone and can’t be bothered to learn, so this great device is basically wasted on them.
Capt Kirk, are you just using the browser for posting? Or did you find a good app on the Playbook? I use mine for lots of web surfing, but usually fall back to a laptop for SDMB.
It’s actually one of the few reasons I take my personal laptop with me on business trips. I can do everything else on my Playbook.
Haters I know:
everyone in my office (about 15 who use them, a law office)
everyone in my husbands office and everyone he’s ever worked with who had one (he’s in IT)
everyone I’ve ever met who used one.
Essentially, you’re the first person I’ve met freely states they like the product.
The main reason is “hard to use”/“not intuitive.” Followed by “tiny keyboard”/“hard to do input”. Followed by “tiny screen”/“hard to see”.
And to be clear, I’m not trying to threadshit or indicate in any way there’s something wrong with your preference. You seemed upset that you got few answers. I’m just pointing out, I don’t think that’s personal, but just people being polite. Everyone I know who has a Blackberry, has it only because their employer requires them to use it. And they hate it with the fire of a thousand suns.
I don’t think it can be seriously disputed that Blackberry is not a popular phone for people voluntarily choosing their phone. In this article, it is stated that as of late march less than 5% of retail stores selling the Blackberry Z10 managed to sell 12 of them. Then, as noted in the later article, a lot were returned.
Lots of people think the Iphone is overhyped and too expensive. Those people seem to buy Android-based phones.
I wasn’t upset that I didn’t get few answers; I was amused, because I started a thread last week asking about something on my kindle and got (just about) no responses.
I know the BlackBerry has been eclipsed by the iPhone. I personally don’t know why. No offense taken.
Dedicated Blackberry user. Although I’m happy about the button keyboard on the Q10, the lack of trackpad might be a deal-breaker for me. I’ll hang onto my Bold 9780 until it dies, and then we’ll see. If the Q10 had a trackpad, I’d definitely pick one up as soon as they are released.
According to what I’ve read, the touch-screen swiping is an effective and intuitive replacement for the trackpad. Which is why I always spend a lot of time in the store physically trying out any new phone.
Going from the one-touch precision of the trackpad, especially for editing text, to full touchscreen, doesn’t seem to me to be an advancement in technology. Especially in cold weather, wearing gloves, and so on. I have a Playbook and don’t like the touchscreen. Can never touch exactly where i want to be. Just not a fan of touchscreens. Eventually I’ll try the Q10 out and eventually I may have no choice but to lose the trackpad, but for me, in going touchscreen, Blackberry has lost the features which kept me loyal.
Here is an excellent video, which gives a complete tour of the Q10. It sounds pretty fabulous. I want one.