What is dead may never die – how to get a post-BlackBerry BlackBerry BlackBerry Mobile has begun shipping its first post-BlackBerry phone in the UK today, although fans will need to cross their fingers and pop into Selfridges' Oxford Street store in London to find one. The KEYone was first shown at CES in January before a formal launch at MWC in Barcelona in March. Selfridges have exclusivity …
There's a good reason nothing out there looks like that.
I understand the appeal of a physical keyboard, I loved the slide-out keyboard of the HTC desire Z even if it did turn the handset into a hefty hector, and I understand people, like James 51 above, are used to the blackberry keyboard. But this is not a BES-connected device it's a consumer (prosumer?) android handset and it's fugly and short on screen space even when you're not using the keyboard. Very limited appeal IMO.
Agreed,
The OS and the features cant be compared to the former "blackberry solution".
Blackberry OS5 and BES (I run my own server) is a combination which still has no rivals.
I would like to upgrade my phone, but regardless of keyboard or not, I could not live without the features, and the lightweight (130g) hardware of the 9700.
I might buy the keyone just because of the keyboard, but it never will make it my primary phone.
To be clear, is that 24 months from launch, or from the date a particular handset is purchased?
Then if it's the latter, do earlier purchases get extended benefit or do they need to pay a subscription after 24 months?
Much easier to say that updates are guaranteed until at least a certain date, at least for the purchaser. This can always be extended if the model proves popular and long lived.
"BlackBerry promises 24 months of guaranteed monthly security updates with the device" - WTF is this supposed to mean ... or is it an admission about the perception core Android walks away from handset hardware quicker than IOS and WinMo.
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