Blackberry getting back in the game

[Anonymous]

After Blackberrys failur to set the market alight with the Z10 and the Z30 is this going to be their come back handset, now this reminds me of the Porsche design that they released perhaps this could see them become a market player again... Lets hope so! 

http://www.gsmarena.com/blackberry_passport-6457.php

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous

Good find. I recently trialled the Z30 as part of Try The Tech ad I had been considering buying one. I was very disappointed with it and sent it back fairly quickly have decided I would not be buying one after all.

I hope this one is a significant improvement as it needs to be.

[Anonymous]

be interesting as i think the Z10 and Z30 was meant to be a iphone rival and it just didnt stand up, however teh reports from a year ago saying BB would no longer be availble for consumer and would only be availible to business only.. but lets see what this one can or cant do and if it will be better then the last couple of attempts they are also releasing a "classic" 

http://www.gsmarena.com/blackberry_classic-6458.php

[Anonymous]

I announced this back when BlackBerry announced the Passport and the Classic to the world:

http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Off-topic/News-BlackBerry-Classic-and-BlackBerry-Passport-phones-being/...

[Anonymous]

sorry i never saw that 

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

be interesting as i think the Z10 and Z30 was meant to be a iphone rival and it just didnt stand up, however teh reports from a year ago saying BB would no longer be availble for consumer and would only be availible to business only.. but lets see what this one can or cant do and if it will be better then the last couple of attempts they are also releasing a "classic" 

http://www.gsmarena.com/blackberry_classic-6458.php

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I disagree! The Z10 and Z30 blow the iPhone out of the water when it comes to speed and productivity. The ONLY thing that they lag behind is the number of apps available but that will be officially resolved in the BB10.3 update which adds the Amazon App store to the operating system and will let all users install Android apps rather than just those confident enough to install Snap.

The Z10 is nearly 2 years old and it still holds its own against phones being released today. Spec isn't everything, OS efficiency is!

[Anonymous]

i can only go by my user experiance of having both as company work phones 

[MI5]

I'm enjoying my trial Z30 and whilst I agree with the app issue I also have to agree that the OS is fast and fluid.
There are some nice touches that I've not seen on either Android or iOS too but I'll save those for my review

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

i can only go by my user experiance of having both as company work phones 

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Does your company operate their BlackBerry's through BES? They could have some functionality locked down or restricted to be honest.

We have iPhones here and they are an awful experience to try and administer using any sort of MDM solution. Its just not possible to secure them properly. I'd much rather we had renewed our BES licence and stuck with BlackBerry especially as many of the apps we needed have been released for BB10 in recent months. Sadly BB10 hadn't been released when the decision was made to move to iPhone and many of the apps that are available now weren't available at launch.

[Anonymous]

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@MI5 wrote:
I'm enjoying my trial Z30 and whilst I agree with the app issue I also have to agree that the OS is fast and fluid.
There are some nice touches that I've not seen on either Android or iOS too but I'll save those for my review

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How are you getting on with using the Hub, and the whole "peek and flow" idea?