Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.misc > #2109

Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone

Show all headers | View raw

On 2014-03-28, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 2014-03-28, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2014-03-28, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> quoted:
>>
>>> If there's one mobile platform that needs a lifeline these days, it's
>>> BlackBerry 10[3]. BlackBerry's hardware sales have been in free fall over the
>>> past year and most of the devices it has sold have been based on its legacy
>>> BlackBerry 7 platform[4]
>>
>> I'm greatly saddened. I have a Z10, and I really like it.
>>
>
> I'm still a potential customer: looking at the Q10 though: I like the
> keyboard.  Did a lot of emailing on my Samsung Note 3 yesterday (during
> a long car trip) and the touch keyboarding got annoying, fast.

FWIW, the predictive text on the Z10 is the first one I've come across that
actually works.

> Something about a good keyboard that still floats my boat (at work I
> have the Blackberry Bold 9900 and I really like it: size, weight,
> keyboard, all good.  

I'm still playing with Bluetooth keyboards for the Z.

> Just wish it had Android apps).

I assume this implies that you realise that BB10 will (in theory) run
Android apps? I say "in theory" because mine, although it has the latest
O/S release, won't.


-- 
Today is Boomtime, the 14th day of Discord in the YOLD 3180
A non-empty Hausdorff topological space is a continuous image of the unit
interval if and only if it is a compact, connected, locally connected
second-countable space.

Back to comp.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-28 08:50 +0000
  Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-28 09:30 +0000
    Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-28 11:28 +0000
      Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-28 15:14 +0000
        Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-28 16:18 +0000
          Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-29 10:36 +0000
  Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-28 13:03 -0300
  Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-28 18:50 -0700
    Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-29 10:37 +0000
      Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-29 16:44 -0300
        Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-29 16:41 -0700
          Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-30 10:57 +0000
            Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-30 21:18 +0000
            Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-03-30 22:40 +0000
              Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 08:38 +0000
              Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-31 09:54 +0000
          Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-30 14:13 +0000
            Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-31 01:33 -0300
          Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-31 16:20 +0000
            Re: US Dept of Defense throws Blackberry a bone Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 19:54 +0000

csiph-web