Blackberry's qwert slider revealed
http://hothardware.com/news/android-...rhM1NKQ.reddit
The good: It's a qwerty slider in 2015!!! The bad, it's BB's bizarre resolution. So not a horizontal device. Still, it's nice to see they still see a market in hwkb's. |
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It'll sell way more if it has an unlocked bootloader / is rootable. Also only way I would possibly be interested. Regardless, it ought to sell more than any of their BB10 era devices. |
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However hopefully you'll either be able to buy a key, or buy factory unlocked versions. ... or maybe it will be unlocked, and they'll sell a locked down version for the corporate market. It's impossible to tell, but I have little confidence that they'll get it right. It'd be really sad if they're all locked down. |
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Sure, if you ask people on TMO if they want a rootable device with a keyboard you'll get a high percentage but to be polite, we're not living in the real world. |
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The now 100s of millions of people using third party ROMs would also seem to disagree. |
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It adds features that you and I like; the layman doesn't even know nor care what that means. I think the sad realization that the things that we desire most, hardware keyboards, unlocked everything and the ability to tinker with the device as we see fit is lost on the majority. So saying that it would make a difference; I doubt that highly. And that's... a rather sad state of affairs. This hardware keyboard slider coming out from BlackBerry with Google's blessing probably means that it'll have the full compliment of gApps, certifications and invariably so, locked down. But to be honest, I was a bigger fan of the QNX based BB10 OS than the Android OS. It just seems like a reversal of their original plans to save their company. I like the device, but it just reminds me of the woefully underpowered Dell Venue Pro. btw @Aegis, I run Cyanogenmod 12.1S Nightlies on my OnePlus One. There are certainly a bit of power users out there - I'm not arguing against them, but I'm well aware that we're a minority. |
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However, given BB's history, I suspect they'll actively try to completely lock down any version they either don't offer unlocked, or offer a key / service to unlock. This simply isn't something other big global brands do anymore, because their customers hate it. A lot of people don't even want root for 3rd party ROMs ... they just want to install apps or functionality to the phone which require root. |
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But at the core, we actually agree. Some folks want those things - but let's be honest. It's much smaller than we'd like to admit. Niche products that we love to death always seem to die. Psion, N900, Zaurus... technically superior devices that died. Why? Because they didn't garner critical support from the masses. BlackBerry has a loyal following. Imagine their feeling that BlackBerry has now produced an Android device? Talk about sleeping with the enemy! That's like Nokia producing an Android tablet! Oh wait... |
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