Grandmaster.flv posted:

sitting at the dealership getting some maintenance done and I saw this

Nelson MandEULA posted:

Waterloo, ON - BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a world leader in mobile communications

The Canadian Press posted:

TORONTO – BlackBerrys are vanishing in Canada while Google Android ownership grows steadily, but Apple’s iPhone is still the most popular smartphone in the country, suggests a new report.

About 85 per cent of the adult anglophone population now has a cellphone, while three quarters of them carry a smartphone, according to a report by the Media Technology Monitor, based on telephone surveys this spring with more than 2,000 Canadians.

The iPhone was the device of choice among 42 per cent of the smartphone owners, while a variety of phones on the Android platform collectively made up 39 per cent of the market.

To no one’s surprise, the MTM survey found BlackBerry’s share of the market has withered away in its home country.

In 2009, 61 per cent of Canadian smartphone owners said they used a BlackBerry. Now, just 14 per cent call themselves devotees of the struggling brand.

BlackBerry’s marketshare plunged by half in the past two years, according to MTM.

Blackula69 posted:

guys blackberry actually made a profit and cut operating expenses by more than half since last year

maybe they won't die???

Bonzo posted:

https://twitter.com/andreabellemare/status/479636865528909824/photo/1

Blackula69 posted:

not by the gaap results, and that's all that counts














but HOLY loving poo poo YOU GUYS

ahmeni posted:

how the gently caress do you hold that thing and type without it falling out of your hands from the top weight

Cold on a Cob posted:

shouldn't it be the gloves are off? not a very canadian tweet. so they're saying they fight dirty on the ice

graph posted:

kevin

kevin where are you

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

I was on a go train last week and it was blackbarries galore

Bonzo posted:

Holy poo poo look at this thing

http://crackberry.com/exclusive-pre-release-review-blackberry-passport?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

quote:

have purchased every single iPhone. My biggest complaint about how thin they are is that, as they get thinner, they become increasingly more difficult to pick up off of a table if they are not in a case.

quote:

The UI has changed just a bit, but I'm not getting into software in this pre-review. The camera is crisp. Autofocus has never been faster on a BlackBerry when it comes to the rear camera. Photos are crisp and the zoom does it justice. Low light photographs are much better but burst photography still needs some work. Shutter speed is definitely faster that any of the Samsung devices out there, but it's not an 'iPhone killer' by any means.

ALL IN ALL, FOR BLACKBERRY USERS, TAKING PICTURES JUST GOT BETTER.

That said though, it's much better than any previous BlackBerry camera. In HDR mode, the Passport asks you to hold still for almost 3 seconds which seems a bit excessive, but there's still room to fix that.

Santas Ainol Elf posted:

only read the title, I didn't know blackberry was making a watch ?!

Caged posted:

Chen said BlackBerry is “here to stay, on your couch for a while, just a couple of weeks, a month at the most, until it sorts some things out and finds itself, you know?”

Bonzo posted:

BlackBerry’s square-screened phone to free us from our “rectangular world”

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/07/blackberrys-square-screened-phone-to-free-us-from-our-rectangular-world/



http://blogs.blackberry.com/2014/07/passport-design/


So I guess Huey Lewis will be the new V.P. of design?

FrozenVent posted:

graph posted:

remember blackberrys ad campaign where it was 4 Very Busy Business Professionals and everyone went 'what' and they backpedalled so hard they broke the bike chain then they blamed 'the summer intern' lol

Nelson MandEULA posted:

well retarded turnaround idiot! amirite?!

Blackula69 posted:

BlackBerry Ltd has concluded a protracted and painful restructuring process and is back on a growth footing, according to an internal memo to all its employees viewed by Reuters.

"We have completed the restructuring notification process, and the workforce reduction that began three years ago is now behind us," said the memo from BlackBerry's Chief Executive John Chen that was sent out on Friday.

"More importantly, barring any unexpected downturns in the market, we will be adding headcount in certain areas such as product development, sales and customer service, beginning in modest numbers," said Chen, who personally thanked those that have stayed with the company through the process.

BlackBerry has shrunk its workforce by roughly 60 percent over the last three years as it attempts to reinvent itself.







loool

graph posted:

rip Kevin

FMguru posted:

the article doesnt make it clear if its london, england or london, ontario

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

My friend owns the 2 PD stores in Illinois (Chicago & some suburb somewhere) and he says those PDBBs are bought almost exclusively by middle eastern guys.

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

i also have no idea how he made so much money on the first store that he was able to open the second. poo poo, he said he'd charge me cost on anything i wanted and i still don't want anything there.

Thanks Ants posted:

reminder that the advertising for the playbook was "you should have waited", it was priced the same as an ipad, and couldn't do messaging without being tethered to a blackberry

Beeftweeter posted:

what happened to crackbaby kevin

quote:

Let’s not mince words: the BlackBerry Passport looks like a giant square drink coaster. It’s big: 5.03 inches tall, 3.55 inches wide, and 0.37 inches thick. It’s heavy: 6.91 ounces. It's odd-looking: it's as if a classic BlackBerry spent some time in a medieval torture device and got stretched it out in all four corners. It’s actually very close to the same dimensions of an international passport, surely not by accident. It’s heavier and wider than both the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the Apple iPhone 6 Plus. Needless to say, the Passport is awkward to use and awkward to carry in your pants' pocket. I can hardly use it in one hand, and I dropped it more than once in the the few weeks I’ve been using it.

prefect posted:

i could see getting some use out of an oversized phone (gps is one of the main things i use), but that keyboard layout is just so terrible

Pinterest Mom posted:

200,000 preorders for passport.

gret posted:

In thinking about it, this review could stand in as a metaphor for women in the workplace. Mrs Stern doesn't need a "work phone" she needs one that she can use to play on... and play at business. When given a power tool to use she finds that she is not comfortable with it. I'm sure this would also be true if she was given a power saw, a major court case, a billion or two to manage or a major story to report.

Mrs Stern, like her children, should stick with the iPhone. It is made for women and children to use. Easy to use and to master, the iPhone will not tax their intellect or their (limited) attention.

prefect posted:

is that a trampoline?

infernal machines posted:

not that i'd trust the stability of any blackberry platform