Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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Poor blackberry.
Anticipated launch sales of 1.7 million.
This has now been reduced to 300k.
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Further decreasing share value as well.
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Eck
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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Wasn't this the phone to save the company?
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
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looks like a decent phone too
is this the end of rim?
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A2H GO
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Registered: 14th Sep 04
Location: Stoke
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I like the phone a lot, I'd say it's more to do with timing, it's 2 years too late.
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Dave
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Registered: 26th Feb 01
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I don't see how this can be, it has proper multitasking ffs.
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Rob_Quads
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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The problem is people are no longer buying just a phone. They are buying into a system and Blackberry have missed the boat. They just can't complete with the likes of Google Play / Apple App Store.
They have switched from the corporate world to try and get the consumer world but it was a wrong move IMO. Now they have near enough lost both businesses.
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James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
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Blackberry are only still around because of corporate sales. As more and more companies move to iPhones, they will go down the pan.
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Whittie
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If their apps weren't so wank and it had full android it would be a lot better for a start.
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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If it was Android id be very tempted for it as it looks awesome.
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Whittie
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exactly, their app store is absolutely woeful.
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A2H GO
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Aren't most of the apps in the store just android ports anyway?
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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I've been saying RIM are 1 service outage away from being out of business for ages.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by John
I've been saying RIM are 1 service outage away from being out of business for ages.
If there is an outage then it'll be down to the networks as BIS has been removed (BBM is the only part of the network) which is a stupid, stupid idea by Blackberry.
I agree that they should have just concentrated on the business sector rather than consumers; it's what they did best (iOS/Android doesn't remotely touch Blackberry for enterprise use).
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Russ
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Registered: 14th Mar 04
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RIM Don't exist any more do they? 
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Rob_Quads
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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in all but name it exists. Another waste IMO of money. They will spend tens of millions on the rebrand from RIM to Blackberry
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Jambo
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob_Quads
The problem is people are no longer buying just a phone. They are buying into a system and Blackberry have missed the boat. They just can't complete with the likes of Google Play / Apple App Store.
They have switched from the corporate world to try and get the consumer world but it was a wrong move IMO. Now they have near enough lost both businesses.
Exactly this.
They made excellent no nonsense business tools, without the nonsense. Looked great, did what they did perfectly, then HTML email came, and it all went downhill from there...
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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HTML email came 
1999 called
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Jambo
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Widespread powser. Not g33ks sending pics of their home build pc's.
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John
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It was a terrible model as soon as you could connect directly to exchange from just about any mobile.
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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The web desktop manager is aweful, so long winded to manage.
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AlunJ
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I love the hardware of my playbook, phones I've had have been okay - apart from my work 8520, but the software is wank. My playbook would be ace if there were any decent apps available.
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jamied
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I was put off blackberrys years ago when I found out most things didnt work under wifi unless you had data package.
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Jambo
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Play book was fantastic. Shame it flopped
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andy_mk3
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Registered: 18th Dec 11
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It's too little too late. Most people have lost faith in RIM. I currently have a 9900 Bold, and don't get me wrong it's an awesome phone, great to type on, solid OS, messaging system works very nicely.
But the camera is shocking, it doesn't even have autofocus, there's the obvious lack of apps too. I think it's even worse with the lower model phones too.
I'm awaiting the Samsung S4  .
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