@Anonymous wrote:
Not an awe inspiring review by The Verge 😔
BlackBerry Classic review
"The BlackBerry Classic is a noble failure, and noble failures teach us more than banal successes. It’s a rocket that fizzled on the launchpad, not a Cessna making a shaky landing."
I've not tested the hardware myself, but the review is a bit stupid in my opinion.
The reviewer starts by reinforcing that blackberries are business phones, praises the keyboard and notes that, "You can pound through gobs of email with an impressive array of keyboard shortcuts and quickly scrolling lists", then goes on to complain at the performance and usability of android apps, (using the example of a game), and then goes on to criticise the OS, commenting that "The BlackBerry operating system is becoming an arcane and confusing jumble that makes sense only to acolytes of the BlackBerry way".
Now I got tired of hearing this kind of thing about Symbian, a lot of techno-savvy people were happy with it before Belle came out and ruined things. Nobody mentions that it, (as with QNX, Blackberry OS, and RIM OS before it), has a security record much better than most other offerings. Just because the fashionistas can't find their way around the OS, it dies off.
And really, the reviewer's test of the camera was really naff. The bad picture of the cat is more to do with lack of photographic skill than any issue with the camera.
The bad points he identifies, which presumably account for the low overall score include "slow performance", inspite of the previous, "You can pound through gobs of email with an impressive array of keyboard shortcuts and quickly scrolling lists", which is presumably more useful to a business user than the 30 seconds it takes to load Crossy Road.
I'm not even a Blackberry user myself, but I am very skeptical about this review.
