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Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-it-aint-broke dept.

Molly McHugh writes When Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, and I owned a BlackBerry Curve. To me, my BlackBerry was close to being the absolute perfect smartphone. Today, BlackBerry revealed the Classic, a phone that is designed to make me—and everyone who owned a BlackBerry before the touchscreen revolution—remember how much we loved them.

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  1. Crackberry is Back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually BB10 is able to run most Android Apps perfectly fine, I am using a Z10 and have very little issues with Android applications.

  2. Re:RIM still off in their own little la-la land. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They keep going for a minute market segment that barely exists

    I beg to differ. The moment I realize that

    1. Blackberry is coming out with a touchscreen phone with QWERTY keypad AND
    2. Fully compatible with Android apps.

    I called up my wife that happens to be in Singapore (one of the launch countries) to grab me one. I for one, do not enjoy touch screen typing. Not that I've not tried. But after 2 years, and I still can't type 5 words straight without mistake.. I think I've had it. Typing on touch screen keypad takes such intense concentration it is hazardous to do when you are moving about. I've seen 3 cases where people got robbed, while they were so focused on typing on their touch screen phones. Or nearly got ran over while crossing the road.

    With my last QWERTY phone, Sony P1, I can literally touch type while walking, with single hand. Only to check at the end of the mesg with almost NO mistakes. I can dial without looking, just by feel. Scroll wheel is one feature I miss the most from yesterday's phones. The Sony P1 (blackberry clone) is ancient by today's standard... but it does things just SO MUCH faster by having buttons that ***gets to the point**

    There is a group of users, that is heavy on e-mail usage, that don't need full touchscreen, appreciate a partial touch screen, loves the Android apps, but do miss the QWERTY keyboard like mad. I've been waiting for any company to launch an Android phone with QWERTY keypad., that don't suck . But I guess the Blackberry Classic is as close as I can get to that.

    Gary

  3. This phone design was driven by businesses. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Per John Chen:

    Blackberry went to customers and asked what they wanted. They wanted the "belt" and a keyboard. Crazy huh. BBRY did market research and determined that their customers wanted the Blackberry Classic.

    Also, if you are a consumer then Blackberry is not targeting you. So if you don't like it, Blackberry really doesn't care. They are targeting business users.

    I personally don't want the Classic but I am a consumer. But the Blackberry Passport is damned tempting.