Posts by SupraTico

Pitch Black: New BlackBerry Classic is aimed at the old-school

You're comparing a phone with a standard mini USB port from the year 2010 or prior.... to the Classic?

:-/

Re: On-screen Keyboards

The BlackBerry predictive and swipe virtual keyboard is superior to the Android Swype keyboard, and yet it's still not as good as the BlackBerry physical qwerty.

The physical qwerty plus touch sensing and swipe keyboard on the Passport is superior to anything else out there.

Perhaps it is you who should give a BlackBerry a shot, being that you don't have experience with them ;)

Re: BBM

Don't drop the thing!

Lol... but seriously, both the Passport and the Classic come with Gorilla Glass.

Re: Do they encrypt transmissions

BlackBerry voice calls have always been encrypted through BlackBerry's own technology.

Re: DualSIM?

BlackBerry bought a company called Movirtu earlier in the year. This company created a virtual sin card solution. You can have two or more numbers running on the same device with only one physical sim card, as the others are, as I mentioned, viryusl.

This hasn't been implemented yet, but it's in the works.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/11/blackberry_buys_movirtu/

Who's that sniffing around BlackBerry? Oh, is it YOU again, Lenovo?

Re: The MIBs won't like this one

The Blackphone is a joke...that phone was rooted in 5 minutes at DEF CON.

Good grief! Have you seen BlackBerry's square smartphone?

Re: Well I WANT ONE

BlackBerry acquired the company Movirtu last month which developed software for a virtual dual sim technology. In other words, it's a virtual second (or theoretically third, fourth or fifth sims) sim card that will allow you to have two phone numbers on the same phone functioning simultaneously.

Check it out, it's pretty neat :)