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BlackBerry Looking To Quench 'Insatiable Demand' For New Smartphones

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-in-blackberry dept.

DavidGilbert99 writes "BlackBerry is on something of a roll. It finally delivered its BlackBerry 10 platform along with the first smartphone to run the OS, the Z10 in January. This weekend saw the launch of the Q10 and there is an 'insatiable demand' for this smartphone with its physical keyboard, says BlackBerry's UK head Rob Orr."

14 of 173 comments (clear)

  1. Um? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Has the company a question mark?

    1. Re:Um? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Most consumers has a ? about BlackBerry, and the company's future has in ?, and they may even has cheezeburger ?, but I'm not sure if the company has ?.

    2. Re:Um? by gadzook33 · · Score: 4, Funny

      No no, it's a mad lib. Like has the company underpants.

    3. Re:Um? by NatasRevol · · Score: 4, Funny

      Next week?
      Next year?
      Tomorrow?
      The future?
      A porn star?

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    4. Re:Um? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      They'll have problems stealing market share from Windows Phone 8. Microsoft Windows Phone 8 is the best phone I've ever used, slick and professional yet friendly, warm and welcoming. Windows Phone 8 is the phone for me bar none, and it should be the phone for you.

      RIM may make good phones, but why would you buy anything but a Windows Phone 8, it's so clever, so smooth so intuitive and so beautiful!

      Have you tried it yet?

  2. has the company... by alphatel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is ? the new !

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  3. Blaance Sheets and Cash Flow statements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    BBRY is doing quite well. Anyone familiar with balance sheets and cash flow statements knows that BBRY is not near death and has never beeen near death. The companyi s a cash generator. People need to realize this.

    People are startign to realize this. With 30%+ short interest in the stock, a short squeeze is overdue. I bought in at several price points. Lowest being around $8/ share. My only regret is not putting even more money into BBRY at that time.

  4. finally by slashmydots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This might be one of those times when everyone in the market is pissing people off with features they don't want getting shoved down their throat (a gigantic, fragile screen with an impossible to type on touchscreen) then one company comes in with exactly what people want. We switched from blackberries to Android phones at my business and now we have zero control over them. There's no centralized anything. It's like a free for all. That is not how you run a business phone system. Also, our salesmen hate the phones and Activesync is a pain in the ass.

    Unfortunately, Blackberry's software was memory leaking, server-controlling garbage so hopefully they fixed that this time around. If so, tough and nice to use phones with central control software and easy exchange integration would be lovely. They'll take over the business market instantly.

  5. It's really clear. by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Has the company a question mark?

    What he is saying is that the company has finally.

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    1. Re:It's really clear. by brabo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Has the company a question mark?

      What he is saying is that the company has finally.

      I agree with the.

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  6. Re:Physical Keyboard FTW by EmagGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    "(and autocorrect can die in a fire)"

    Autocorrect can be easily disabilities by any on on either plates formed.

  7. Free Trade up by mrops · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, looks like you need free upgrades. We did a while back. The new platform manages BB and iOS/Android devices. If you have your BES 5.0 and earlier License CALs lying around, its a free upgrade to their new BES 10.0

    https://enterprise.ecomm.webapps.blackberry.com/caltradeup/home.do

    Considering, going forward you will need to pay a monthly fee and the Trade Up program give you non-expiring licenses, I think its a worthy upgrade even if you don't intend to run BB in long run. At least you will have new CALs if you so choose to continue.

  8. They've finally reached the step... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...just before Profit!

  9. Re:Physical Keyboard FTW by narcc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a horrible OS. It's slow, and the native web browser horrible times ten.

    Sorry, are you from the past?

    The browser is demonstrably the best on the market. It even has the best HTML5 support of any browser, scoring higher than every desktop browser. You find that even sites that use Flash or WebGL run smooth.

    As for the OS being slow, you'd be the first reviewer to suggest such a thing.

    I haven't tried BB OS 10 yet.

    Well, that explains it!

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