RIM unveils BlackBerry 10, last hope for Survival

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In the zone
BlackBerry Maker Unveils Its New Line
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Sorry Apple, the BlackBerry Z10 Is Hotter Than the iPhone
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BlackBerry’s maker unveiled a new operating system and a new line of phones on Wednesday, along with a new corporate name, with the hope of restoring its products’ status as a symbol of executive cool.

Analysts, technology reviewers and app developers with advance access to the BlackBerry Z10 and the BlackBerry 10 operating system have said it is the company’s first competitive touch-screen phone. But BlackBerry 10 arrives long after Apple’s iPhone and phones using Google’s Android operating system have come to dominate the smartphone market that the BlackBerry effectively created. According to IDC, BlackBerry now holds just 4.6 percent of that market, about one-tenth of its historic peak.

To emphasize the changes brought by the new operating system, Thorsten Heins, who took over as chief executive a year ago, said the company, known until now as Research In Motion, had adopted BlackBerry as its corporate name. Its Nasdaq trading symbol will become BBRY, and it will trade as BB in Toronto.

In addition to the BlackBerry Z10 phone, there will be a second model, the Q10, that includes one of the line’s signature physical keyboards. Verizon Wireless announced that it would price the Z10 at $200 with a two-year contract.

BlackBerry said the Z10 would be available in the United States in March and in Canada on Feb. 5.

“Today represents a new day in the history of BlackBerry,” Mr. Heins said. “These BlackBerry 10 devices are absolutely the best typing experiences in the industry.”

There were few surprises in the initial portion of Mr. Heins’s presentation. The company began demonstrating the touch-screen phone and operating system in May and also made prototypes available to app developers at the time In recent weeks, photographs of the final version of the phones have made their way to various American and European technology Web sites.

Physically, the Z10 resembles an iPhone 5 with its corners snipped off.

But unlike its competitors, the Z10 lacks a button to take users back to a home page and relies entirely on users’ swiping their fingers across the 4.2-inch screen from different directions to summon features or menus.

While the Z10 lacks a physical keyboard, the main attraction of BlackBerrys for many current users, the company said it had developed software which should alleviate some of the inadequacies of on-screen typing. According to BlackBerry, its software studies users’ common typing mistakes over time and then starts automatically correcting them. It will also build up a list of commonly used words and offer them as suggestions that can be selected with a flick of a finger.

While developing the new operating system, the company took great pains to improve its strained relationship with app developers. The operating system was also designed in a way that allows them to adapt Android apps for BlackBerry 10 by making some relatively minor modifications.

For corporate and government users, BlackBerry 10 server software will allow them to divide employees’ BlackBerry 10 phones into separate work and personal spheres and give I.T. managers complete control over the former.
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the once iconic company dominating the smartphone industry, now struggling to survive, has finally entered the segment of full touch screen operating system.

BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 unveiled, first BB10 smartphones - GSMArena.com news
Sorry Apple, the BlackBerry Z10 Is Hotter Than the iPhone
BlackBerry Z10 Features And Specifications Round Up | Ubergizmo
Specs
Blackberry Z10
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4.2” WXGA screen (1,280 x 768, 356ppi pixel density)
Dual-core Krait CPU 1.5GHz
2 GB RAM
8MP main camera, 1080p video
HDMI port
16 GB Internal
microSD card
Bluetooth 4.0
NFC
 
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tkin

tkin

Back to school!!
If that device has a price over 30k, blackberry is dead in water.

Plus we need a sub 20k variant for the masses.
 
Anorion

Anorion

Sith Lord
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details are less, but this looks like fail of the epic type

is there an alternative to apple passbook built into the system?

this was supposed to be a next generation device, it does not look like atm
 
audiophilic

audiophilic

Journeyman
I'm buying this one especially cause its RIM.

Physically, the Z10 resembles an iPhone 5 with its corners snipped off.
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Come on, that statement is rubbish. Anything "with its corners snipped off" does not look like iPhone. Its absurd statement!
 
pranav0091

pranav0091

I am not an Owl
Actually, for once I feel that somebody big has really copied the external design of the Iphone. Except for the edge-to-edge glass there is nothing really that differentiates this phone from the Iphone. And the hideously large Blackberry logo. I see apple's lawyers grinning :D
 
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noob

Cyborg Agent
audiophilic said:
I'm buying this one especially cause its RIM.



Come on, that statement is rubbish. Anything "with its corners snipped off" does not look like iPhone. Its absurd statement!
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THIS....but iSheeps wont understand :)

Anorion said:
is there an alternative to apple passbook built into the system?
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A lot of developers make this much more complicated than necessary. You don't need an app to give somebody a Passbook pass.
This is how it should function: It's just a file - you can email to them or make it available via a web site; when the user reads the email, or clicks the link, the pass will be installed.
 
amjath

amjath

Human Spambot
Lol look at this Nokia takes on Blackberry which was just released

Nokia takes a swing at BlackBerry on Twitter, says it's not really suitable for business users - GSMArena Blog
 
Anorion

Anorion

Sith Lord
Staff member
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noob said:
THIS....but iSheeps wont understand :)


A lot of developers make this much more complicated than necessary. You don't need an app to give somebody a Passbook pass.
This is how it should function: It's just a file - you can email to them or make it available via a web site; when the user reads the email, or clicks the link, the pass will be installed.
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that sounds complicated. expected it to compete with

Passbook is helping push stores into the 21st century — perhaps more smoothly than the transition of Android’s mobile technology of choice, NFC. Many retailers are adopting bar-code readers and other technology to facilitate walletless transactions so customers can redeem Discover eCertificates or gift cards from a number of retailers through Gyft, among other Passbook-ready apps.
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Apple's Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
 
ithehappy

ithehappy

Human Spambot
God if I had spare cash atm I'd just buy one of this, I just love the looks of it!!
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Hrishi

Hrishi

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HOw the hell , do you think a phone would look like if you strip it off from the screen corners ?? Are you expecting circular or triangular screens ?? Oh, Come on , IFans.!!
WHy is it , that you guys try to dig-up every possible resemblence to an Iphone in every other phone , and say that its a copy!!!
Majority of the replies above are more concerned about "How is looks like I-Phone" , rather than anything else new in it

For sake of BB survival , spare this phone|
 
pranav0091

pranav0091

I am not an Owl
I am not an Ifan, but please tell me they dont look similar: gsmarena_003.jpg
 
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