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Leaked Photo Shows Touch-Screen BlackBerry 10 Phone

Posted by Soulskill on from the finally-arriving-at-their-own-party dept.

alancronin tips this quote from CNet: "A new leaked photo of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone, or the 'London,' promises a completely different looking BlackBerry than the world is used to. According to the BlackBerry news site N4BB, a photo of the device (which is designed by Porsche) shows a slender touch-screen phone that is the color 'gun metal.' Several apps are shown in the photo, including Facebook, BBM, and DocsToGo. ... The London is the first BlackBerry 10 and is slated to have a TI OMAP dual-core CPU running at 1.5GHz, as well as 1GB of RAM, 16GB storage, and an 8-megapixel camera."

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  1. Irrelevance and mediocrity by LordLimecat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The entire reason I loved my blackberry was its keyboard-centeredness. Why the heck do I want a business phone that has a crappy touch keyboard? Theres android and iPhone for that.

    I guess we still get the BES stuff, but which users are actually going to want a blackberry? If youre going to mandate a business phone, why mandate one that sucks at being a business phone?

    I mean, I guess what they had wasnt selling phones, and their market share was shrinking-- seems logical to make a change, right? Except they just killed 80% of what made blackberry so popular to begin with. Being just another touch-device clone isnt really the way to claw your way back into the game.

  2. Re:android clone by symbolset · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apple and Microsoft have a patent cross-license deal since 1997. Microsoft agreed to not copy Apple's UI in the deal (which involved a lawsuit about Microsoft Windows copying the Apple UI). That's why Windows Phones don't look like iPhones, and it's why Microsoft is losing in mobile. Apple screwed them on this one, a rare case of the devil overestimating his bargaining power. It's also why despite rampant patent lawsuits Apple isn't suing Microsoft, or vice versa. They have a mutual "all patents" license and for the purposes of mobile patents are on the same team.

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  3. Personal experience by Kupfernigk · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Indeed. It is noticeable that when I send emails from my phones, both of which have physical keyboards, the reply from iOS and Android users tends to be either very short, or a phone call. I recently had a message from a BB user on behalf of an iPhone user, presumably because the iPhone user didn't want to have to type two sentences on an iPhone.

    Speech is all very well, but there are many circumstances when it is inconvenient - for the hearing impaired (there are rather a lot of us), in meetings/lectures/seminars, or where ambiguity or being overheard must be avoided, as with user names, passwords etc.

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  4. Re:The photo was cropped ... any rounded corner? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The trap is that phone manufacturers are forced to gravitate towards the iPhone design.

    Apple has created their own closed ecosystem of hardware and applications. All the devs are building applications designed with the iPhone in mind: rectangular multitouch screens; a single hardware button.

    Phone manufacturers want applications on their devices too. Devs want to be able to port their applications easily without having to redesign and recode for other handsets.

    It doesn't make sense to stray too far from the design the applications are built for.

    Let's hope the same uncreative minds aren't bickering over augmented and virtual reality devices.