Thursday, January 31, 2013

Which Smartphones Will Win? Blackberry (1):

This morning I weighed 219.4 pounds.

It's too early to decide how good the Blackberry 10 is. We need to see how it behaves when the networks are full of them, when hackers try to hack them, when their native apps are pushed hard to produce. And we need to find out why the keyboard version of this new phone was not the first version out of the gate. But I have a good word of advice for you today:

The  BB10 is engaged in a four-way race. Everyone is wondering whether the BB might find its way into a universe ruled by Android and Apple. But don't forget, Microsoft is already trying to crack into this world. It is really, really, really difficult to imagine both Microsoft and Blackberry being successful in the competition to sell smartphones based on different operating systems. If BB can succeed, how many app developers and users will have time for Microsoft?

4 comments:

AS said...

Well,you said Microsoft then, The recent Nokia lumia 920 handset is used by my brother.i find it as an innovative handset and the windows mobile OS Is a bit cluttered.also,the store doesn't have many top games but, overall this phone and OS have a bright future ahead,I'd say.

AS said...

The Blackberry z10 phone is unlikely to crack it as even if it is a good phone(no idea coz I've never seen/used one) but it is not common,slightly steep pricing,almost no good apps on store and is only good for mainly the office guys(that's me,but I still use two iPhones instead) as it's push mail service is excellent.even the blackberry 10 OS is somewhat a new concept but still lacks a couple of needed features.

tobyr21@gmail.com said...

AS, I think you are wise to prefer two iPhones to one BB10 that is INTENDED to be a dual work/personal phone. I'm waiting to hear the cries of anguish when some people have their "office" data erased and discover that the erasures removed more than they expected. Like many BB10 features, it might take a while to get them working just right.
- PB

AS said...

That is exactly the reason I have bought and use two separate phones instead of one phone.And for the erasure part,you're right because most of us tend to download a lot of varied stuff on our personal phones and the office phone is kept secluded so,if even one app causes some sorta malfunction,your office data is still safe. "Cries of anguish" is what my best friend expierienced when his htc one x+(office cum personal) got erased due to a virus in an app or something he downloaded from the Internet(not from the play store)but,I'll still say the iPhone is safe as it doesn't support installation of apps downloaded from the Internet(illegally of course,nowadays whose iPhone is not jail broken ).