bb9900user2018
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Unlike Android (and, to a tiny extent, iPhone), no one in the technical fields has anything to do with BB except the people working for the company (if there are any - do they farm all their work out?)
What you get, other than rumors, about any product, is about people who repair them, people who modify them, etc., whether it's phones or cars or planes. Everything else is push this, tap that, I hear that ...
So you get a lot about Android (and even more on XDA), something about iPhones and almost nothing about BB. And it's been that way for 20 years. BB is a niche phone, not something the average experimenter works on. (And, aside from a few really good repair shops, iPhones aren't experimented on physically.) But Android is Linux, and it's a great bed for software experimentation. BB? Totally proprietary, like Symbian, and we know how well that went over. Closed source is also more insecure than open source. So most BBs are bought for Hub, for BBM and for other RIM special interest items. BB (not even RIM any more, but BBL, has its phones made by TCL and Optiemus Infracom, it uses Android ... it's an (old) Android with a small screen and physical keyboard, and it's a mid-range phone selling at anywhere from midrange (LE) to flagship (Key 2) prices.
At least it used to have fleet GPS, but today it's only a "I have a Blackberry" phone. Nothing special about it, except that it's overpriced and underpowered.
yes no doubt the attraction to the key devices is the hub (especially for BB10 users), the added security, some also like the BB launcher and of course the pkb. The pkb is what keeps me on my Classic together with the tool belt/track pad, as archaic as that may sound - nothing beats its precision on websites (pointer). And a pkb is far more efficient at banging out txts and emails than a vkb can ever be. I wasn't sure if Optiemus Infracom are still making key devices, would you know how many they make in India, that's a huge and fast growing market. Yes for sure BB key devices serve a niche market at this time. Many law offices use key devices btw
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