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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. Wrong product name by JoeyRox · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should call it the Blackberry 12, since it'll be released one chapter after Chapter 11.

    1. Re:Wrong product name by acoustix · · Score: 4, Insightful

      RIM has no debt. Has over $2B in the bank. They will be fine.

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  3. The photo was cropped ... any rounded corner? by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately the photo was cropped and all I could see is a rectangular thingy.

    Anyone saw any "rounded corner"?

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    1. Re:The photo was cropped ... any rounded corner? by Tapewolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That line is getting REALLY tired...

      Normally I'd agree, but Apple's recent behaviour has made legal action over similar-looking devices very much a legitimate concern.

  4. With keyboard as well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    RIM have already announced there will be a version with a physical keyboard and a 720*720 screen, for "real" BB users. The BB on-screen keyboard as on the PlayBook is, in my view, better than others, but I agree: as someone who uses a BB for messaging, I am waiting for the keyboard version. Preferably the slider.

    Currently the meme is that RIM is dying and I suspect this has its origins in the large and well staffed Apple and Microsoft PR departments. But consider: the difference between a BB phone and Android/iOS is that the BB doesn't phone home all your private information to Google or Apple. A lot of "apps" are basically Trojans for privacy violation. What message do you think that RIM is addressing to corporates, right now?

  5. Have you actually tried one? by Kupfernigk · · Score: 4, Informative
    Are you comparing like to like? Like to like is a Bold 9900 versus an iPhone, not a corporate 2010 model versus a 2012 phone. The last generation of BlackBerries are actually not hard to use, very configurable for business use (different notifications for different classes of incoming message, auto clock mode in dock, powerful security certificate handling), and the "third party server add on" is a messaging server - how well does your corporate iPhone work without one? Exchange is a third party add on from a phone point of view. I assume you mean that the BES is an add on to your Exchange server, but does your Exchange server provide secure XMPP or an equivalent out of the box?

    Apple and Google have very carefully shifted the grounds away from considerations of message security and integrity, messaging flexibility, and privacy to - ooh shiny! Angry Birds! But I suspect that eventually people will realise that it's panem et circenses to keep the mass buyers happy. A phone is always a compromise as a media device, which is why screen sizes keep creeping up, and a media device is always a compromise as a phone (too big, battery life too short).

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  6. Legitimate business people... by mevets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What makes one a legitimate business person?
    Is that a euphemism for prostitutes and drug dealers?
    If you have to write 50 emails a day from a mobile device, you have made a serious vocational error.