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dholliday

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Hiya,

I have a feeling Blackberry's OS is slowly giving up being usable on the WWW: websites showing more blank pages, and typing messages in GOT is slow torture, it's like one-letter-per-second, if you type any faster you end up wihgbbldygk.

Installed a third-party browser and it's not much better. Whatsapp recently confirmed they will no longer support (as in test) their services for Blackberry operating systems. Blackberry in turn have confirmed their new models will largely offer Android as an OS, and these phones don't seem to have a keyboard version.

Anyone else use BB OS and find it a grand old pain to type? Looks like I'll have to make the move to an actual touchscreen keyboard (shudders).
 
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dholliday said:
Hiya,

I have a feeling Blackberry's OS is slowly giving up being usable on the WWW: websites showing more blank pages, and typing messages in GOT is slow torture, it's like one-letter-per-second, if you type any faster you end up wihgbbldygk.

Installed a third-party browser and it's not much better. Whatsapp recently confirmed they will no longer support (as in test) their services for Blackberry operating systems. Blackberry in turn have confirmed their new models will largely offer Android as an OS, and these phones don't seem to have a keyboard version.

Anyone else use BB OS and find it a grand old pain to type? Looks like I'll have to make the move to an actual touchscreen keyboard (shudders).
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There are rubbish mate,
 
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Ashtonian said:
Didn't know blackberry were still going! thought they were only popular with bsuiness men and teenagers.
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Businessmen use Blackberries?


I like them, currently have a Q10 which is still well-regarded. Current models like the Z30 are considered among the very best you can get, just that Blackberry has nowhere near the market share of a Samsung or Apple. I went BB because the high-end hardware (talking about CPU & RAM not camera) initially facilitated speedy responsive browsing, also the snappy OS and its logical layout, haptic keyboard, scratch-free screen and sturdy body easily withstanding multiple drops are right up my tree. The OS itself is still fine but its compatibility with browser-based surfing is no longer being supported by most web design, so it's becoming a dead-end.

Just wondering if any other BB OS users have similar issues.
 
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dholliday said:
Businessmen use Blackberries?


I like them, currently have a Q10 which is still well-regarded. Current models like the Z30 are considered among the very best you can get, just that Blackberry has nowhere near the market share of a Samsung or Apple. I went BB because the high-end hardware (talking about CPU & RAM not camera) initially facilitated speedy responsive browsing, also the snappy OS and its logical layout, haptic keyboard, scratch-free screen and sturdy body easily withstanding multiple drops are right up my tree. The OS itself is still fine but its compatibility with browser-based surfing is no longer being supported by most web design, so it's becoming a dead-end.

Just wondering if any other BB OS users have similar issues.
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You'll be hard pushed mate. In the past month, we've only had 88 unique visits from a blackberry device.
 
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dholliday said:
Businessmen use Blackberries?


I like them, currently have a Q10 which is still well-regarded. Current models like the Z30 are considered among the very best you can get, just that Blackberry has nowhere near the market share of a Samsung or Apple. I went BB because the high-end hardware (talking about CPU & RAM not camera) initially facilitated speedy responsive browsing, also the snappy OS and its logical layout, haptic keyboard, scratch-free screen and sturdy body easily withstanding multiple drops are right up my tree. The OS itself is still fine but its compatibility with browser-based surfing is no longer being supported by most web design, so it's becoming a dead-end.

Just wondering if any other BB OS users have similar issues.
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none of that means anything to me haha

but years ago Blackberries were famous for businessmen to have (before Iphones took over) and teenagers had their BBM chat. they seemed to be the only people who had them but they got really popular off the back of it.

I thought apple had killed blackberry off though, everyone where i work gets ipads and iphones now days.

Also is there anything called a blueberry? Not the fruit, Jay z says it in Encore, but the blueberry still connect. Was a blueberry ever a thing?
 
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Ashtonian said:
none of that means anything to me haha

but years ago Blackberries were famous for businessmen to have (before Iphones took over) and teenagers had their BBM chat. they seemed to be the only people who had them but they got really popular off the back of it.

I thought apple had killed blackberry off though, everyone where i work gets ipads and iphones now days.

Also is there anything called a blueberry? Not the fruit, Jay z says it in Encore, but the blueberry still connect. Was a blueberry ever a thing?
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Pretty sure it was a blackberry with Bluetooth

Googled it. Turns out it was an off brand rip off. Seems their plan fooled me
 
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GrandOldTeam said:
You'll be hard pushed mate. In the past month, we've only had 88 unique visits from a blackberry device.
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from how many unique visits in total?

there's 87 BB brothers out there somewhere

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Ashtonian said:
Also is there anything called a blueberry? Not the fruit, Jay z says it in Encore, but the blueberry still connect. Was a blueberry ever a thing?
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wow...what?
 
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dholliday said:
Businessmen use Blackberries?


I like them, currently have a Q10 which is still well-regarded. Current models like the Z30 are considered among the very best you can get, just that Blackberry has nowhere near the market share of a Samsung or Apple. I went BB because the high-end hardware (talking about CPU & RAM not camera) initially facilitated speedy responsive browsing, also the snappy OS and its logical layout, haptic keyboard, scratch-free screen and sturdy body easily withstanding multiple drops are right up my tree. The OS itself is still fine but its compatibility with browser-based surfing is no longer being supported by most web design, so it's becoming a dead-end.

Just wondering if any other BB OS users have similar issues.
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What an absolute gimp
 
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dholliday said:
Businessmen use Blackberries?


I like them, currently have a Q10 which is still well-regarded. Current models like the Z30 are considered among the very best you can get, just that Blackberry has nowhere near the market share of a Samsung or Apple. I went BB because the high-end hardware (talking about CPU & RAM not camera) initially facilitated speedy responsive browsing, also the snappy OS and its logical layout, haptic keyboard, scratch-free screen and sturdy body easily withstanding multiple drops are right up my tree. The OS itself is still fine but its compatibility with browser-based surfing is no longer being supported by most web design, so it's becoming a dead-end.

Just wondering if any other BB OS users have similar issues.
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Had to just dump my Q10 since so many apps were no longer being supported (e.g., WhatsApp, and The Guardian were important ones for me) or even made for Blackberry. I got an iPhone which is nice and much faster, but still miss many features (e.g.,double-tap a letter to capitalize) and the physical keyboard of the Q10. But the Q10 served me well.
 
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verreauxi said:
Had to just dump my Q10 since so many apps were no longer being supported (e.g., WhatsApp, and The Guardian were important ones for me) or even made for Blackberry. I got an iPhone which is nice and much faster, but still miss many features (e.g.,double-tap a letter to capitalize) and the physical keyboard of the Q10. But the Q10 served me well.
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aye, The Graun is another one where typing is sometimes a chore...just reacting much too slow now.

Don't like Apple much, so will go probably Z30 with Android.
 
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