I just bought pic related a few days ago and holy fuck it feels so good to finally have a grown up phone again.
No more fat fingering soft keys while smudging up my screen, no more meme devices that only differentiate themselves with thumbprint readers, 3d touch, and other garbage "features", and no more having to root and sideload neckbeard roms just to get rid of touch wiz.
This is the return of physical keyboards. It's about fucking time!
>>52682745
They never went away, you just weren't buying them.
>>52682745
nah
blackberry has been around forever, this whole time
PS it runs android
>>52682763
What was the last smartphone that had a physical keyboard after the Droid phones? Besides phones that were exclusive to Japan, I can't think of any. I'm not saying you're wrong, I just haven't seen nearly as many physical keyboards on flagship devices in recent memory.
>>52682810
Nearly every phone BlackBerry released and a few from other brands.
>>52682745
>2016
>buying a RIM phone
Jesus, op, buy the only decent phone out right now (Samsung galaxy) and just get the physical keyboard accessory if you're really so shit at typing.
>>52682745
>non-user removable battery
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>>52682871
no
>>52682745
I still run a droid 4
this is the first I've heard of the priv
>>52682745
Do these even come with nordic keyboards?
My first Android was a Sony Ericson Xperia with physical keyboard, and I really miss having it.
>>52682871
>Diaper for you Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge +
>>52682946
The Droid phones were so good, I loved my original Droid, but they stopped making them, then Google hollowed out Motorola. I think you'd like the priv if you liked the Droid. The physical keyboard doubles as a touch surface for gestures (swipe left erases word, down for alt symbols, double tap to enter cursor mode and drag in any direction to place cursor, etc) it also runs android now so no more app gap.
>>52682962
I assume there are localized versions of it but idk for sure.
>>52682996
There's no way that's real.
>>52682799
But the priv is the first bb device to run full Android.
>>52683018
>There's no way that's real
It's as real as it is disgusting
>>52682745
>no apps
Who are you going to communicate with when there's no proper Whatsapp, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Kik??
>>52683117
It has all of those apps, dummy
>>52683117
Android has no apps? Also those all work on BB10OS.
Now if it would just come out on Verizon...
>>52683117
Blackberry went Android a while ago.
Why did companies start integrating batteries instead of having them removable? I never did understand this other than they can track you because its never off
>>52683185
Because taking it from battery dead = time for a new battery to battery dead = time for a new phone means more money for the manufacturers
>>52683117
jesus, the WP boogeyman sure fucked you up
>muh phones
who gives a fuck, they are all useless garbage anyways
>>52683256
You gave enough of a fuck to reply in a phone thread
>>52682871
please tell me that is not just a cover over the on-screen keyboard
>>52683289
It's exactly what it looks like
>>52683301
>>52682745
too expensive for me, and i don't like phisical keyboards, but other than this it actually look amazing, and specs are not bad at all. plus it is elegant looking as fucking in a jacuzzi
>>52682745
Does anyone know if this phone is selling well compared to RIM's other BlackBerry handsets? I'd love to see RIM getting back on their feet again. Modern cellphones have become extremely bland in the past decade. Everything wants to be the next best knock-off iPhone, even though the new iPhones are uninspired pieces of utter shit.
Source:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/26/10836782/apple-iphone-6-6s-upgrade-rate
>>52683117
BB10 has android run time and the Priv comes with Android.
I'd get it in a heartbeat if it didn't have that retarded curved screen.
i'm in the market for a new phone and the Priv looks the most appealing to me by a mile, BUT does it have an IR blaster?
i use the IR blaster on my M8 every single day so it's an important feature for me
>>52682810
Blackberry Q10, Q5 (2013)
Blackberry Passport (2014)
Blackberry Classic (2015)
>>52682745
>muh physical keyboard
Grow up grandpa. Even most teenagers can type 80wpm on their phones these days.
>>52682745
I'm considering getting it when Sprint offers them.
I want to use the physical keyboard to play DS games.
The keyboard is sturdy right?
>>52687471
It's not just about speed, but also about typing without looking.
sliders are gay, and the only reason i havent bought a bb classic is im not sure if i like that the keyboard rows are straight lines instead of curved like they used to be.
but if the classic ran android i would buy it regardless.
>>52687511
>I'm a faggot who plans to kill people through texting and driving
I sincerely hope that you crash into a pole and kill yourself first before hurting others.
>>52687554
I use public transport; don't worry.
>>52687492
>sprint
>not already using tmo
>>52687354
No IR. Pretty sure the LG V10 is the only recent flagship with IR.
>>52687471
what if someone just thinks it feels better?
>>52685791
their last earnings report only covered the first couple weeks of priv sales but they just announced the total number of devices sold. that total number was very low but John Chen has been making very optimistic statements lately on the priv sales. he also talked about a second android phone and speculated that if enough android bb phones were sold, they could make a new BB10 device.
>>52688189
>and speculated that if enough android bb phones were sold, they could make a new BB10 device.
I know this is bullshit, but i want to believe it.
>>52682745
Thanks for your blog post!
>>52688228
he is just trying to rev up hype among bb purists who don't want to buy the priv and stay with the passport. he tries to imply that "you want BB10? here android, fuck you; first buy this one to get a new BB10"
>>52688307
I won't be buying Chen's overprice android, I am a fan on BB10 not BlackBerry. Still it's kinda fucked up how they threw their hardcore fans under the bus like that just to become another Google OEM.
>>52688365
Well to be fair to Chang, he kind of had to make the switch. BB10 wasn't going anywhere, and Investors/main consumers were begging for an Android BB.
Kind of unfortunate that a lot of smaller OSs aren't realizing they really need to stop fragmenting themselves and just stick behind one.
>>52688456
>Investors/main consumers were begging for an Android BB.
>a company that's suppose to be all about mobile security
>ditches in house OS and switch to the least secure OS available
>an OS known to be overly intrusive
>an OS that on one company make a profit from and only by flooding the market with variants
I hope they enjoy their money
>>52687385
>BBOS 10 devices
>>52688558
Now you know the mind of an investor - the drive towards money at any cost, even if it means losing everything else.
I did enjoy how they basically whipped the market into believing the priv could actually 'secure' android.
>>52688574
>>BBOS 10
It's BB10 fuckwit
>>52688609
Literally nobody cares
>>52688625
Literally dozens do.
>>52688601
Which is hilarious as about a year ago Chen reported say Samsung Knox was most like Samsung Swiss Cheese and Good Technologies just wasn't very Good.
>>52688635
My bad, I was rounding down
>>52688625
It's called BB10 because they couldn't use BBX with the X being from QNX, it has nothing to do with the BBOS series which was built using Java. Calling it BBOS 10 is wrong, and you really shouldn't be so proud to sound like a fucking idiot on a Mongolian tapestry board.
>>52688736
>>52688749
Posting twice doesn't make your non-argument stronger you know.
>>52688643
Fast forward to Today, Good was bought by BB and Samsung and BB are "partners". Chen's market game is strong too, seeing as no one has called him out on it.
>>52683185
Form factor. Easier to decrease size when the battery is integrated with and around the hardware. If this truely has to be the case is another factor as there are some pretty thin, stand-alone batteries.
>>52683117
Only problem is Google service framework doesn't work with blackberry so no snapchat.
>>52683185
If you keep the battery in the same space as the other components, that lets you get rid of the plastic you would normally use to separate them. Makes the phone thinner.
>>52688770
Exactly, Chen knows what he's doing, he is a turn around expert after all. Unfortunately that means BB will end up like all his other turnarounds, i.e. sold to the highest bidder once profitable again.
>>52688765
Neither is pointing out I deleted my first post a valid counter argument.
>>52689005
Of course not. You were right, of course - calling it BBOS 10 was objectively wrong.
I just wish someone would sit down and unretardify bb10. For every wonderful thing, there is one absolutely retarded decision.
>>52689280
>For every wonderful thing, there is one absolutely retarded decision.
Like?
>>52689510
Small one: the bloody calculator is upside-down from the buttons you need to press on the keyboard.
Big one: there is no cursor, despite cursors being a superior method of interacting with media.
>>52689280
There are countless groups that could band together and actually work on BB10 to fix it up, while BB maintains """""security""""" rights. Unfortunately, won't happen. These same groups have too much pride in their own OS.
So many little things too, like the inability to swipe from your hub to the home screen/apps screens through the physical keyboard, even though you can swipe through the rest of your screens with it just fine. Things like not being able to opt for more detailed volume controls upon pressing them.
The whole amazon situation is also a mess, there's no reason for it to be a completely separate app, one that runs shit might I add.
>>52689635
>The whole amazon situation is also a mess, there's no reason for it to be a completely separate app, one that runs shit might I add.
Honestly when I heard that Chen struck a deal with Amazon I was expect a much tighter integration with BB10, especially since Amazon already had some experience in the mobile from Fire Phone. Sadly, all it did was give us a port of their app store and put the final nail in BB10 native development.
Wow. Blackberry shills like crazy on my fb feed but in the Chan? They must be really grasping at straws!
>>52689808
BB10 users got slapped in the face, TWICE.
1. Amazon AppStore is completely separate, at least a fucking webpage on the BB World app would have been a step up.
2. The Amazon web marketplace is also a separate app, mandatory.
Seriously, the partnership between amazon and blackberry must have been made by two retarded interns at both companies.
>$700
Haha no fucking way, physical keyboard is too niche for this to get a decently sized user base
>>52689921
>implying that's a lot of money
Stick to your sidekick, kid. BBs are for business men who earn a salary.
>>52689873
Both companies could have profited so much more than they actually did if their negotiators had half a brain.
They really shit the bed on that deal.
>>52688574
yes. The last phones with a proper os.
Enjoy your lags, botnet and/or gay sex
>>52690098
>brb, trying to connect to a strongly-secured VPN
>no qt5
BB10 is where the playbook was in 2012-2013
>>52690132
Amazon exists to fuck around with new technologies. They half ass most of their ventures, even their main e-commerce business.
>>52690120
which only further proves anon's point that it won't ever get a decently sized user base..
I've got one, its a pleasure to use. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
>>52690170
Aren't most smartphones financed through monthly payment plans anyway? I doubt people drop hundreds on a phone anymore.
>>52682745
>$1,249.00 (AUD)
Yeah nah
>>52690185
DTEK is a limp dick. Is there any way yet to escape the botnet?
>>52690197
They are indeed financed in this way. People still pay full retail price at launch through this financing, but gives them a longer period to accumulate this wealth.
>>52690151
>They half ass most of their ventures, even their main e-commerce business.
And it shows, even a shitty chink e-commerce site started by a starving chink is somehow outpacing amazon.
>>52682745
>more expensive than TWO memePhone
there is no valid reason for the stupidly high price.
>>52689921
>oh noes noone will ever buy a $700 phone
>>52683141
>CDMAIDS
just switch senpai
>>52682745
it looks dope, but i probably won't spend a lot of money on a phone until i can run debian with gnome 3 on it
>>52683117
grow up kid
facebook is a website and the others are garbage
use email and text messages
>>52683117
facebook app works well enough.
Literally NONE of my friends use any of the other ones.
But then again, all my friends are legal adults so it might be different for you.
>>52690243
Alibaba is a success for similar reasons, aided by the fact that they made themselves the gatekeepers and have been successfully dragging Chinese business into the present. They've mostly done the same experimentation but had a role model to help them out.
>>52690216
Dank memes the guy
>>52682745
Hahahaha, shill harder, Blackberry.
>>52690988
>some talks about something other than Samsung or iPhone for once
> call them shills
Stay classy anon
>>52690988
>implying RIM could even afford to hire shills
>>52690288
$949.00 dollar facebook machine
>>52691303
Sad but true. They can't even afford to maintain their lives Facebook app. A single SE Asian dev had to pick up their slack.
Faster to type with swift key
>>52691546
Swiftkey ALWAYS autocorrects to the wrong word
100% of the time
>>52691546
Haha no
I kind of want a blackberry
>implying phone companies have peaked and we're witnessing Apple diminish into an antiquity of the 10's
>>52691738
apple won't fall that fast, but they indeed reached their saturation point and will face some downfall. Speculators gonna speculate about apple's downfall all day errday. blackberry can sell a phone or two and reach a sustainable point in terms of hardware while microsoft continues to release lumia shit.
things won't change for microsoft unless they make the surface phone which might be a huge unexpected success.
>>52691962
>surface phone
What would that even be if not a marketing term for what's essentially a note.
Using an LG G3 right now, would getting the priv be a downgrade? The spec sheet seems decent but I'm skeptical
>>52692338
Does the LG have a physical keyboard?
>>52690303
I wish I could but in Wyoming my options are Verizon or AT&T. From my testing AT&T has about 75-80% of the coverage and 1/3 the speed of Verizon where I live so I can't say they are really an option for me.
I am trying to decide between this and surface phone or whatever Microsoft does where Window 10 mobile os is fixed by fall hopefully.
The only thing with this phone is it could easily be lagdroid like my m8 is with lollipop.
>friend bought blackberry priv
>he uses touchscreen keyboard all the time
>ask him why he doesn't just use the physical keyboard
>"i want to, but it's just quicker to type on screen than to slide the thing out and two hand it"
WHY EVEN BUY IT HOLY SHIT
>>52693118
>normies
>not buying a superior form factor
>not enjoying android apps at the same time
>>52693613
Fuck off.
>>52682745
whats the battery life
>>52693118
I think he wanted to say fuck you but that would have been too forward
>>52693613
I'm still using a flip motorola razr from like 2004
details on that phone plz
>>52693686
Japanese, import only, can be sim-unlocked. Called the SH-06G. You'll want to check the bands it supports, since (in the U.S., at least) 4G only works with AT&T. Doesn't have the google play store, but apps can be manually installed by hooking it to your computer.
http://www.kyoex.com/
This site has pretty much any jap import phone you could want, flip phones included. Non-Jap android flip phones are the LG Gentle/Wine Smart, and the Samsung Galaxy Golden. Those can't be found on the site.
>>52687674
>tmo
>enjoy you're 21gb soft cap faggot
No thanks. Not even the person you replied to, but I'm on Sprint, which also has a soft cap, but it's based by tower. After 21gb you'd be flat throttled for the month. After 23gb I'm throttled ONLY if there's low usage customers on my tower currently using data, and every 5ms it prioritizes. Been tethering and using upwards of 300GB/month without ever being throttled.
>>52690288
They won't when they could buy a nexus 6p and save $300
>>52688558
At least it doesn't use Google services framework, so that's one less hole. The priv is about as secure as the kindle fire Android fork which hasn't had many issues (in fact, the security is so good that you literally have to nuke a whole partition to get it to panic and allow you fastboot access as a repair method, then you can actually flash a new bootloader and flash new ROMs and root it)
>Dat ultimate /g/ phone
>http://www.kyoex.com/docomo-fujitsu-f-03d-girls-popteen-phone-unlocked/
>>52693874
if you show me a nexus with a keyboard, I'll buy it
>>52691546
A keyboard that was designed around smudging up your screen.. Stay ghetto trash, son
>>52683141
I read that it is. Verizon is retard for not selling it at launch.
Planning to buy one second hand once they do come out.
>>52682745
Step aside, 8330 master race coming through
