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BlackBerry 10: AWESOME. If the hardware matches it, RIM jobs are safe.
Topic Started: Nov 27 2012, 08:23 PM (141 Views)
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BlackBerry 10: AWESOME. If the hardware matches it, RIM jobs are safe
Our Vulture fondles his way through the new OS
By Andrew Orlowski

Opinion BlackBerry users have a love-hate relationship with their phones. The devices were often forced upon users rather than chosen. At the same time, the handhelds were the most usable and useful communications gadgets you could put in your pocket.

Yes, there are things a BlackBerry can't do very well or at all. But it is capable of doing so many things that its rivals can't match. You have to wonder if the rest of the phone industry has been taking some strange stupefying drug.

For example, the BlackBerry knows when it's in a holster. It knows when it's on a nightstand so it can do all kinds of "I'm in a nightstand now" things. You know what's "incoming" without taking it out of its case - you can tell that from the LED indicator. (Enthusiasts have written programs to allow you to set sophisticated 'Blinkenlights' sequences of coloured flashes, telling you in much more detail what is going on.) The obsession with usability extends to giving everything a shortcut key. You can set up a custom shortcut key to show you all the emails from Alice in the last three months, for example.


More plus screenshots: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/23/bb10_latest_ui/
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Might want one of those, surprise, the i's have not made much of an impression on me when I played with them.
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RIM to launch BlackBerry 10 on Jan. 30
The operating system will be joined by two smartphones
By Mikael Ricknäs | 12 November 12

Research In Motion will launch BlackBerry 10 and the two first smartphones based on the operating system on Jan. 30, the company said on Monday.

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The event will happen simultaneously in multiple countries around the world, according to RIM. The operating system was originally due sometime before the end of the year.

There is no doubt that the new operating system and the related products will be very important for the future of the struggling smartphone vendor.

"It is not just important, it will determine RIM's future. A failure will be the end of the company, so there is no room for mistakes," said Malik Saadi, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media.

The company has seen its market share dwindle in during the last couple of year, and was the third largest smartphone vendor in the world with a 4.3 percent market share during the third quarter, down from 9.6 percent a year ago. The company still had 80 million active users during the quarter that ended Sept. 1, which was an increase, RIM said when it announced its quarterly financials.


http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/mobile-phone/3410482/rim-launch-blackberry-10-on-jan-30/?cmpid=HTML-DN121112&olo=daily%20news


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