Blackberry leaving the consumer market

robbies_gal

what will happen to joe public then will their services start to be limited-apps atc?

NFH

lionelator wrote: »

Id happily move away from BlackBerry if any other phone matched its features and functionality.
Since nothing else does, I have to stay with them.

In what way does Good for Enterprise on an iPhone not match (or exceed) Blackberry's features and functionality?

Radsteral

NFh, you seem obsesed with goo enterprise on an iphone .
i have used few phones recently...iphone is great in many ways blackberry is slow at catching up in media and someother things , though its widely known blackberry security , and by the time you swipe your iphone key and find the keyboad, i should have finished writting what you are reading now .
yes its got its issues to set up like any other phone ,my i phone i had to go to the shop and it took i phone asistant 1 hour to get through it !
if only blackberry brings some decent internet speed , so i can google a bit faster, then i d love it .

type straight away on blackberry a word, and it will bring results from your email, if you got any, from google, from text ,from facebook.
type on sony,experia or iphone a word, ....

NFH

Radsteral wrote: »

NFh, you seem obsesed with goo enterprise on an iphone .

Not at all. I asked a question; see above.

Radsteral wrote: »

type straight away on blackberry a word, and it will bring results from your email, if you got any, from google, from text ,from facebook.
type on sony,experia or iphone a word, ....

The iPhone does exactly the same.

Edwardia

When I got my first BlackBerry they were the must have for investment bankers. Now I'm on my seventh and they're the must have for rioters

I love my BB because it's small, light, fits in pockets and it picks my incoming email up faster than my laptop on broadband. Linking it to my email addresses was simple, so was setting it up to use my broadband router when at home. My most recent Curve (2 months old) has very fast internet. Only thing I'd whinge about would be the camera isn't as good as the Nokia N95.

split_second

i had a blackberry before they were mainstream, and to be honest i didnt like it.

worked with them for years and they seem to be set up in a different language other than english, a sort of horrible tech speak that fair enough i understand as i worked with them for so long but needless for the customer base (then again i believe the execs that have them want it to work out the box and ring their firms i.t dept if it doesnt have all their business emails working the second they switch it on)

lionelator

NFH wrote: »

In what way does Good for Enterprise on an iPhone not match (or exceed) Blackberry's features and functionality?

- Real keyboards. If you do any sort of typing on a mobile device theres nothing that can touch the keyboard on a 9900. virtual keyboards don't cut it, the feedback and touch just doesn't allow for proper typing for most people.
- The LED. With my BlackBerry in its holster on silent on a table I can glance at it and the LED blinks to let me know whats happening. Different colours for texts, calls, whatsapp messages, and separate colours for all 5 of my email accounts, work and personal, so I know which account is getting the email, the work which needs looking at, or the personal which can wait.
- Individual settings for contacts, so I have a custom alert sound and vibration and LED colour for the staffing rep who puts out a job list. This alone makes me more money than the phone on one job.
- Ease of use. For navigation around my phone, I just take it out of the holster and start typing, and it localises the app I want, then I touch the screen and done. No pushing menus, calling up a virtual touchscreen, then typing, its faster, its easier, its smoother.

At the moment no other phone can match this functionality, Im left having to choose between this fantastic productivity and the other platforms, which offer games and media control. I would like both, but in the end if I have to choose between entertainment and productivity, productivity has to win at this moment in my life.
If I was in school or even college, or retired, then I could afford to get a phone that allowed media and game use as a main function. At the moment I need something for professionals and no one else seems to be interested, or capable, in matching these features.

Guys_Dad

It's horses for courses and, for commercial written communication, blackberry is tops.

In the early days, with the original kiddies' toy shaped handsets, they were a bit embarrassing to use as handsets for talking unless you used the mic/earpiece, but they sorted that out with later handsets.

For voice-only use, I still like Nokia candy-bar, non touch, shirt-pocket sized basic handsets and I always put my sim in one of these when I go on holiday.

Android/Iphone handsets for vision apps or games.

But, if you weigh up that people who like a proper keyboard for typing want to retain that and people who like vision based apps want a decent sized screen, then you have a problem of device size. Yes, you can get keyboards for Iphones, but that's 2 things to carry and I don't always wear a jacket and don't carry a handbag!

The consumer market is much bigger than the business-only one and that's why I see RIM's market being eroded as to have the benefits of vision and app based handsets that can do what the Blackberry does in respect of word comms - perhaps not as conveniently or quickly - look like they will triumph.

Having said that, I can still see a place for RIM, as long as they can restructure to deal with a smaller market place.

silo24

Blackberry are back-pedalling on this statement anyhow.

cgk1

silo24 wrote: »

Blackberry are back-pedalling on this statement anyhow.

They never made the statement to start with - what seems to have happened is that a CNET reporter filed the original story during RIM's last earnings call without properly understanding what was said. There is nowhere in the call or the transcripts does the CEO say they are pulling out of consumer markets.