Bb10 Blackberry OS was ahead of its time, I am still rocking blackberry z10, they lacked proper marketing and proper pricing. They dropped the price too late
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d go back to a blackberry keyboard any day. If you had one, I’m sure you agree that no tech today beats the feeling of scrolling down that touchpad and the feeling of those keys. It was beautiful! Add the notification light too 😭😭😭❤️
@@roux6715not everyone needs a big screen. I personally wanted to stay away from social media and digital distractions so the size of the Key1/Key2 is perfect for me. Also, if you need a bigger screen the concept of Priv might work for you.
@@roux6715 It's not that much when you have to bring up an on screen keyboard anyway. I put my Key 2 next to my husband's Samsung, and when he brought his keyboard up, his available screen space over mine was small.
@@roux6715lmao yall are so sad and contrarian. A digital keyboard is much more valuable but if you don’t think so, no one is stopping you from buying a blackberry 😂
I am still using my BB Q10 in 2024. I remember when I purchased the Q10 in 2014 while all other customers in the store with me were purchasing iPhones. I don't think I will ever let go of this phone as long as it has the functionality that I need (e-mails, calendar, notes). Its compact form factor which makes it easy to use one-handed plus the qwerty keyboard are my ultimate favorite features. I have my main driver phone, but I do wish BB would come out with current software (especially for the BB Priv) and I would buy one or two in a heartbeat.
I think there is a path for Blackberry back in the phone market, the so called dumb phone market. If Blackberry could offer a real alternative to the smartphone, for those wanting to reduce their usage and focus on a more clear set of tasks and tools, Blackberry have the name to thrive again, even with a smaller market share. A phone that has some of the essential modern day smart features is needed, such as NFC mobile payment, authentication app, email, encripted messaging, a good camera and maps. A simpler phone just for key tasks but one that doesn't endlessly distract the users attention with social media, web browsing, games and all the other apps that really, are just not needed.
On pixel there is extreme battery saver mode, where only Telefone, Messaging, camera apps are working. The rest of apps are on pause. If you want to use other apps you're asked if you want to temporarily unpause the app. And screen can be in tones of grey. So you save battery and avoid using apps. No need for a separate dumb phone.^^
@@tomswan3401 You can strip down any smartphone to be more basic but it will always have the underlying temptation to turn things back on and suck you back into a routine of staring at the screen. I'd buy a stripped down smartphone with a smaller predefined feature set for modern life and I think many other would as well, given the choice to buy it.
Totally agree. Modern dumb phones are way too dumb. All of them have a numerical keyboard rather than a full qwerty keyboard like Blackberry had. This is not minimalism, it is masochism. Numerical keyboards make even the most simple "non-smart" tasks cumbersome and time wasting, like adding new contacts and taking short notes; and most communications nowadays are by text. BB left a hole in the market for a phone with a proper physical keyboard.
The iPhone that was showcased at that time with Jobs on stage was rumoured to have only partially worked, if only Blackberry had known this. The iPhone was not innovative, the touchscreen was something that Nokia had been toying with way before iPhone-some of the last NSeries handsets had touch screen features. Nokia and Blackberry were light years ahead of iPhone - it was the USA that was behind the times, not the rest of the world. iPhone is pants, 15 iterations later and nothing much has improved, but it is slowly but surely catching up to the rest of the world. Android is way more advanced and now that Apple has lost its monopoly type hold over the industry, a lot of people will move back over to Android because no one will want to pay extra for a handset that is priced according to its brand, as opposed to its features and what it is able to do?
The Blackberry Classic was the only Blackberry I ever owned and it unexpectedly became my favorite phone of all time. A new version of the Classic running Android would have been a dream come true but it would never be. Thanks for the memories, Blackberry.
I carry a BB 9220 or 9320 with me everyday as a back up phone. Their start is lightning fast and when I struggle to use my Samsung display in direct sunlight my Blackberry comes to rescue. Nowadays they only do calls and texting, yes. But I will carry one forever. Any Blackberry, even the most low end model, is an excellent phone.
How in the world is everybody suddenly interested in the fall of blackberry, it fell >10yrs ago. Tell me if it's coming back, people sure are waiting for that, not like it's going to happen.
The BlackBerry OS had the best cursor for moving around a document or text; it was a circle with a point IIRC, instead of the tiny little blinking vertical bar that is so hard to grab. There was so much about that OS that was just *chef's kiss*
The take that tech companies must innovate all the time is not very true. Sometimes, some things are just done so well that it doesn't need fixing. Look at Windows. It was perfect in the late Windows XP and Windows 7 years. But then Microsoft tried """innovating""" by removing features, redesigning the UI for no reason (Windows 8 and beyond), adding spyware, bloatware, etc. same as Apple when they remove things like the headphone jack, make less repair friendly Macs, etc. and further dumb down their operating system. The last innovation I really was amazed by in the tech industry was Siri. That was 13 years ago. Apple Silicon sure, it's cool and all, but it's hiding its limitations in plain sight.
The perfect phone form factor is different for a 4 year old, a 14 year old, a 24 year old, a 44 year old and an 84 year old. Rather than manage to figure this out, the phone marketers are selling poorly fitting stuff to their customers and the result is decline in productivity and frustration / distrust of tech. Just look at BLU... they rose to success figuring out that 74 year olds are cheap-skates. Now they have reverted to making the same kind of flagship phones as everybody else and pricing them at $$$$$.
The Z10 was my first smartphone and the Key2 my last Blackberry. I still miss it and feel still disappointed by OnwardsMobility by even not getting started with a restart of Blackberry.
BB10 was excellent. Too bad they were too late to market. If they had gone straight to the Z10 from their physical keyboard devices, we would have three OS’s to choose from today.
The physical keyboard isnt the issue. Thats like saying the S pen is a problem for Samsung. The problem is they couldn't come up with good enough software and specs to compete with Apple and Samsung.
2:30 on android there is android for work, where copy/paste between work apps and oersonal apps is forbidden, data protection. Also on iphones having work/personal profiles.^^
I have owned so many BB phones from the legacy OS to BB10 to the Android variants. I wish that they pivoted faster to BB10. I think if they had they might have had a chance.
@@duartesimoes508several years ago. Basically same thing happened to MySpace. Facebook didn’t win cause it was better than MySpace in terms of a featureset. It won because it was reliable, stable, solid uptimes and it was fast. MySpace’s back office couldn’t keep up or compare to the engineers behind FB back then. Blackberry was a better product in many ways. Especially for professionals. But you go offline, act slow, etc well then people start looking at those fancy touch screens. (2009-2012 professionals debating the iPhone / Android upgrade era)
Bought a keyone in 18,phone was beautiful but the software was garbage,couldn’t use it then and damn sure can’t now.I know a few folks that still use the key2
Edit: Should of watched the video competely first before commenting (He quoted Steve Jobs) Steve Jobs said in 2007, the problem was in the bottom 60 of the phone, The keyboard was there whether you wanted it or not.
This was a great phone and the operating system was brilliant, but like all things at the end, something new comes along to dominate the business world and this will happen to the iPhone with something new will come along to replace it.
It was NOT a consumer phone. It did business stuff (Calls, Text, E-mail) to an acceptable degree and that was it. They couldn't even be bothered to fix or improve on the simplest of things. A big one for me was the lack of a lock screen or easy way to prevent accidental button presses without the case that covered the keys or setting up a passcode. The recessed "lock" button had to be held down for a few seconds until the screen faded to black. Then the phone was "locked" until ANY notification would unlock it automatically leaving it open for accidental button presses.
I rocked a blackberry from 2007 to 2013. I had to let them go in favor of android, specifically the HTC One M7. That was a sad day I traded in my Blackberry Bold 9900. Tough good bye.
I had blackberry curve in 2011 and my step father had the blackberry bold. My mum had the Iphone 4. Iphone 4 was the thing to get it was miles ahead of anything. Apple didn't sell crap phones they only sold the premium iPhone 4 so there was no such thing of getting a slow bad iPhone 4.
Bb10 Blackberry OS was ahead of its time, I am still rocking blackberry z10, they lacked proper marketing and proper pricing. They dropped the price too late
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d go back to a blackberry keyboard any day. If you had one, I’m sure you agree that no tech today beats the feeling of scrolling down that touchpad and the feeling of those keys. It was beautiful! Add the notification light too 😭😭😭❤️
Its not just you. This glass keyboard thing is horrible. If glass keyboards were good we'd have them on our desktops and laptops in droves.
physical inputs are great but I’d prefer the extra screen space
@@roux6715not everyone needs a big screen. I personally wanted to stay away from social media and digital distractions so the size of the Key1/Key2 is perfect for me. Also, if you need a bigger screen the concept of Priv might work for you.
@@roux6715 It's not that much when you have to bring up an on screen keyboard anyway. I put my Key 2 next to my husband's Samsung, and when he brought his keyboard up, his available screen space over mine was small.
@@roux6715lmao yall are so sad and contrarian. A digital keyboard is much more valuable but if you don’t think so, no one is stopping you from buying a blackberry 😂
I am still using my BB Q10 in 2024. I remember when I purchased the Q10 in 2014 while all other customers in the store with me were purchasing iPhones. I don't think I will ever let go of this phone as long as it has the functionality that I need (e-mails, calendar, notes). Its compact form factor which makes it easy to use one-handed plus the qwerty keyboard are my ultimate favorite features. I have my main driver phone, but I do wish BB would come out with current software (especially for the BB Priv) and I would buy one or two in a heartbeat.
I think there is a path for Blackberry back in the phone market, the so called dumb phone market. If Blackberry could offer a real alternative to the smartphone, for those wanting to reduce their usage and focus on a more clear set of tasks and tools, Blackberry have the name to thrive again, even with a smaller market share. A phone that has some of the essential modern day smart features is needed, such as NFC mobile payment, authentication app, email, encripted messaging, a good camera and maps. A simpler phone just for key tasks but one that doesn't endlessly distract the users attention with social media, web browsing, games and all the other apps that really, are just not needed.
On pixel there is extreme battery saver mode, where only Telefone, Messaging, camera apps are working. The rest of apps are on pause. If you want to use other apps you're asked if you want to temporarily unpause the app. And screen can be in tones of grey. So you save battery and avoid using apps. No need for a separate dumb phone.^^
@@tomswan3401 You can strip down any smartphone to be more basic but it will always have the underlying temptation to turn things back on and suck you back into a routine of staring at the screen. I'd buy a stripped down smartphone with a smaller predefined feature set for modern life and I think many other would as well, given the choice to buy it.
This should be heard out there. I'm one of them that wish BB would come back. Someone has to act this advice.
Totally agree. Modern dumb phones are way too dumb. All of them have a numerical keyboard rather than a full qwerty keyboard like Blackberry had. This is not minimalism, it is masochism. Numerical keyboards make even the most simple "non-smart" tasks cumbersome and time wasting, like adding new contacts and taking short notes; and most communications nowadays are by text. BB left a hole in the market for a phone with a proper physical keyboard.
A modern Pearl flip would be interesting.
The iPhone that was showcased at that time with Jobs on stage was rumoured to have only partially worked, if only Blackberry had known this. The iPhone was not innovative, the touchscreen was something that Nokia had been toying with way before iPhone-some of the last NSeries handsets had touch screen features. Nokia and Blackberry were light years ahead of iPhone - it was the USA that was behind the times, not the rest of the world. iPhone is pants, 15 iterations later and nothing much has improved, but it is slowly but surely catching up to the rest of the world. Android is way more advanced and now that Apple has lost its monopoly type hold over the industry, a lot of people will move back over to Android because no one will want to pay extra for a handset that is priced according to its brand, as opposed to its features and what it is able to do?
S24 ultra 1040€, iPhone 15 pro max 1240€, both 256gb. So price difference 200€.^^
The Blackberry Classic was the only Blackberry I ever owned and it unexpectedly became my favorite phone of all time. A new version of the Classic running Android would have been a dream come true but it would never be. Thanks for the memories, Blackberry.
I carry a BB 9220 or 9320 with me everyday as a back up phone. Their start is lightning fast and when I struggle to use my Samsung display in direct sunlight my Blackberry comes to rescue.
Nowadays they only do calls and texting, yes. But I will carry one forever. Any Blackberry, even the most low end model, is an excellent phone.
How in the world is everybody suddenly interested in the fall of blackberry, it fell >10yrs ago.
Tell me if it's coming back, people sure are waiting for that, not like it's going to happen.
Todays phones still cannot copy and paste or even select text properly...
The BlackBerry OS had the best cursor for moving around a document or text; it was a circle with a point IIRC, instead of the tiny little blinking vertical bar that is so hard to grab. There was so much about that OS that was just *chef's kiss*
The take that tech companies must innovate all the time is not very true. Sometimes, some things are just done so well that it doesn't need fixing. Look at Windows. It was perfect in the late Windows XP and Windows 7 years. But then Microsoft tried """innovating""" by removing features, redesigning the UI for no reason (Windows 8 and beyond), adding spyware, bloatware, etc. same as Apple when they remove things like the headphone jack, make less repair friendly Macs, etc. and further dumb down their operating system. The last innovation I really was amazed by in the tech industry was Siri. That was 13 years ago. Apple Silicon sure, it's cool and all, but it's hiding its limitations in plain sight.
The perfect phone form factor is different for a 4 year old, a 14 year old, a 24 year old, a 44 year old and an 84 year old. Rather than manage to figure this out, the phone marketers are selling poorly fitting stuff to their customers and the result is decline in productivity and frustration / distrust of tech. Just look at BLU... they rose to success figuring out that 74 year olds are cheap-skates. Now they have reverted to making the same kind of flagship phones as everybody else and pricing them at $$$$$.
Never had a blackberry phone in my life wish I had one. I think full keyboard is great touch screen is kinda boring now. Why? The tactile feeling!
The Z10 was my first smartphone and the Key2 my last Blackberry. I still miss it and feel still disappointed by OnwardsMobility by even not getting started with a restart of Blackberry.
They were fantastic handsets the Blackberry's I had the Bold!,Storm, Z10 and Z30 and still have them.
BB10 was excellent. Too bad they were too late to market. If they had gone straight to the Z10 from their physical keyboard devices, we would have three OS’s to choose from today.
I miss Blackberry keyboards... keypads suck.
The physical keyboard isnt the issue. Thats like saying the S pen is a problem for Samsung. The problem is they couldn't come up with good enough software and specs to compete with Apple and Samsung.
2:30 on android there is android for work, where copy/paste between work apps and oersonal apps is forbidden, data protection. Also on iphones having work/personal profiles.^^
I have owned so many BB phones from the legacy OS to BB10 to the Android variants. I wish that they pivoted faster to BB10. I think if they had they might have had a chance.
I wish they still made the Keynotes
i dropped them like a bad habit when their network went down and left me without a phone. bought an iphone 4 the next day.
In which year was that? To me it was 2020. 🤔
@@duartesimoes508 2011
@@duartesimoes508several years ago. Basically same thing happened to MySpace. Facebook didn’t win cause it was better than MySpace in terms of a featureset. It won because it was reliable, stable, solid uptimes and it was fast. MySpace’s back office couldn’t keep up or compare to the engineers behind FB back then.
Blackberry was a better product in many ways. Especially for professionals. But you go offline, act slow, etc well then people start looking at those fancy touch screens. (2009-2012 professionals debating the iPhone / Android upgrade era)
Bought a keyone in 18,phone was beautiful but the software was garbage,couldn’t use it then and damn sure can’t now.I know a few folks that still use the key2
I do....use it as a work phone!
Sou fã do Black Berry ❤😂
blackbery bold 9900 one of the best phones I ever had RIP
I didn't even notice it was an AI thumbnail until I considered the scale of the phone to the laptop lol, nonetheless, it's a nice video.
I immediately noticed it because of the text on the buttons
great video man keep it up
Thank you, what would you like me to do next?
What is the model of Blackberry in the thumbnail? That's rare.
The thumbnail is clearly AI generated
Keyboards need to come back to phones again. I don't like everything being a glass brick. Jesus loves you!
I remember how they was wiped out from market over night. Happened that they started co.operating by spy agencies. After that everyone left
I would prefer a phone with a physical keyboard again. i really loved the BB
I have a blackberry Motion, and it works good as it should...
Edit: Should of watched the video competely first before commenting (He quoted Steve Jobs)
Steve Jobs said in 2007, the problem was in the bottom 60 of the phone, The keyboard was there whether you wanted it or not.
This was a great phone and the operating system was brilliant, but like all things at the end, something new comes along to dominate the business world and this will happen to the iPhone with something new will come along to replace it.
Still waiting for a new version of the Passport... The best smartphone ever.
Thank God for Clicks Keyboard for iPhone best new accessory of 2024!!
FOR THE RECORD IPHONE WAS NOT FIRST TOUCH PHONE,TO BE FAIR
Fyi : i still never getting used to type in touchscreen keyboard. Blackberry has way better typing experience than nowadays iphone nor android phones
In one word. iPhone. Andy Rubin of Android saw it coming and adjusted. The rest did not.
I still keep my BB curve and Bold, the curve still working 😅
It was NOT a consumer phone. It did business stuff (Calls, Text, E-mail) to an acceptable degree and that was it. They couldn't even be bothered to fix or improve on the simplest of things. A big one for me was the lack of a lock screen or easy way to prevent accidental button presses without the case that covered the keys or setting up a passcode. The recessed "lock" button had to be held down for a few seconds until the screen faded to black. Then the phone was "locked" until ANY notification would unlock it automatically leaving it open for accidental button presses.
i hate that dumb phones these days don't have a qwerty keyboad but a T9 keyboard!
Even though I can't make calls or texts anymore, my Bold 9900 makes a good Organizer PDA.
I rocked a blackberry from 2007 to 2013. I had to let them go in favor of android, specifically the HTC One M7. That was a sad day I traded in my Blackberry Bold 9900. Tough good bye.
My family had a BlackBerry!!!!!!
I had blackberry curve in 2011 and my step father had the blackberry bold. My mum had the Iphone 4. Iphone 4 was the thing to get it was miles ahead of anything. Apple didn't sell crap phones they only sold the premium iPhone 4 so there was no such thing of getting a slow bad iPhone 4.
Apparently fruit names are not successful in the long run! When will Apple collapse?
Bring them back
Very good video with very good information but that stupid background music! 😔🚮
that ghastly background music
thanks for the advice, what type of music would you think may suit better?
@@DrJimmyM maybe no music is better, so we can focus on your voice and the reports etc...
RIP
I had the TRACberry. Straight talks keyboard phone
Old people designing phones for young people !
My dad said they went bankrupt
They are dead
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