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BlackBerry and other devices with a physical keyboard

From	crankypuss <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android
Subject	BlackBerry and other devices with a physical keyboard
Followup-To	comp.mobile.android
Date	2015-08-12 06:00 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<mqfcci$e4e$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Probably because of all the bad press they've received in the past, I've 
never really considered BlackBerry as an alternative... in fact <blush> 
it recently came as a surprise to me that they are still actually in the 
game.

Anyway, having used a "smartphone" for a while, I've been halfheartedly 
looking around for a new phone.  I'm using a Motorola Droid RAZR-M, and 
thinking that after some experience with it, I don't much like Android, 
and I really don't like the way Verizon works so hard to make sure their 
customers are using the latest version that they approve of, distributes 
updates that break existing apps, and so forth.

So in looking around I find a couple of candidates for "decent phone 
with physical keyboard" and I see that LG and BlackBerry are still in 
that game.  The BlackBery Passport seems like it could possibly be a 
reasonable choice, but they use their own OS.  I'm thinking that might 
not be a bad thing, if their OS works and is stable.

On the other hand, BlackBerry seems to be offering phones with touch 
keyboards now (for all I know they always have) so maybe there's a 
chance of their letting physical keyboards become a relic of the past, 
who can tell what they'll decide to do in order to survive?

Maybe some of you actually have BlackBerry devices and maybe you have 
some thoughts on the subject.  Is their OS solid and stable?  I consider 
the linux kernel to be solid and stable, but Google keeps spinning out 
new versions of Android, and just like Microsoft has traditionally done 
with Windows, new versions of Android mess around with the user-
interface.  I for one don't like it when I've just gotten used to the 
idiosyncracies of one version, and a new batch of stuff is dumped on me.  
Since BlackBerry uses their own OS, how much of an issue is version-
thrashing with BlackBerry?


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BlackBerry and other devices with a physical keyboard crankypuss <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-12 06:00 -0600

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