Thread: Sony Xperia Z.

Originally Posted by socal

BlackBerry Z10 I'd built in North America fool.

Designed in Canada - Built in Mexico. Actually - There are some made in the Canadian factory, but the vast majority come from Mexico.

http://forums.crackberry.com/blackbe...s-made-777634/

Originally Posted by Gerbil

It is the BYOD surge in businesses that has killed RIM.

Even RIM realise it and are developing software for IOS & Android which will allow admins on BES to remotely manage and if necessary wipe their business data (only) from their users phones.

RIM is dead as a hardware manufacturer and will sink into complete obscurity if IOS/Android incorporate that same functionality into their O/S natively.

They are only about five years late with MDM (Mobile Device Management), and it's really only kids that use BBM - and they're giving that away.

Not that it matters because there are tons of free apps for SMS-type messaging now.

We're throwing them out and letting people choose from WP8, Android or iPhone. If you have the right MDM it doesn't matter what handset you give people.

And as handsets go, the Q10 and Z10 are decidedly behind the rest.

Plus their well reported global outages did untold damage to their reputation.

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by baldrick

Just being dense is not necessarily a positive

but RIM on if that is what makes you happy

Sorry to put to rest your perverted joke but Rim is just an abbreviation.

The company is called Research In Motion.

No it isn't. It's called Blackberry.

I'll be nice and stop you making a c u n t of yourself (again).

RIM Changes Company Name to BlackBerry
By Hugo Miller - Jan 30, 2013 6:25 PM GMT+0300
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), taking the name of its best-known product, will now be known simply as BlackBerry, part of a comeback plan that includes unveiling a redesigned line of smartphones today.
The new name has been approved by the board and the company will begin trading under the ticker BBRY on the Nasdaq Stock Market and BB in Toronto, Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben said in an interview. The change is designed to put the Waterloo, Ontario-based company’s iconic product at the heart of its corporate branding, he said.

Not surprising really, dumping R.I.M as that was the name that took the blame for Blackberrys worldwide crash a couple of years back.

It's a bit like the headlines in the Canucks Rags when Ben Johnson smashed the World 100 metres record........

Canadian superstar wins gold in record time

The front page one day later when he was stripped of his medal....

African Immigrant in drug shame

Originally Posted by Gerbil

Originally Posted by socal

BlackBerry Z10 I'd built in North America fool.

Designed in Canada - Built in Mexico. Actually - There are some made in the Canadian factory, but the vast majority come from Mexico.

Where are your Z10s made - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

Yes Gerbil I know. I took the battery out of my phone and found out.

Guess what....

This is North America

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by baldrick

Just being dense is not necessarily a positive

but RIM on if that is what makes you happy

Sorry to put to rest your perverted joke but Rim is just an abbreviation.

The company is called Research In Motion.

No it isn't. It's called Blackberry.

I'll be nice and stop you making a c u n t of yourself (again).

RIM Changes Company Name to BlackBerry
By Hugo Miller - Jan 30, 2013 6:25 PM GMT+0300
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), taking the name of its best-known product, will now be known simply as BlackBerry, part of a comeback plan that includes unveiling a redesigned line of smartphones today.
The new name has been approved by the board and the company will begin trading under the ticker BBRY on the Nasdaq Stock Market and BB in Toronto, Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben said in an interview. The change is designed to put the Waterloo, Ontario-based company’s iconic product at the heart of its corporate branding, he said.

As I said a thousand times, BlackBerry was in some trouble. If you bought the stock in the lows of that trouble, you would walk away with a 30% gain. I don't even know where the stock is now but now is not the low point of the company like you think it is.

The Z10 has done good enough to bring them back to relevancy

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by baldrick

Just being dense is not necessarily a positive

but RIM on if that is what makes you happy

Sorry to put to rest your perverted joke but Rim is just an abbreviation.

The company is called Research In Motion.

No it isn't. It's called Blackberry.

I'll be nice and stop you making a c u n t of yourself (again).

RIM Changes Company Name to BlackBerry
By Hugo Miller - Jan 30, 2013 6:25 PM GMT+0300
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), taking the name of its best-known product, will now be known simply as BlackBerry, part of a comeback plan that includes unveiling a redesigned line of smartphones today.
The new name has been approved by the board and the company will begin trading under the ticker BBRY on the Nasdaq Stock Market and BB in Toronto, Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben said in an interview. The change is designed to put the Waterloo, Ontario-based company’s iconic product at the heart of its corporate branding, he said.

As I said a thousand times, BlackBerry was in some trouble. If you bought the stock in the lows of that trouble, you would walk away with a 30% gain. I don't even know where the stock is now but now is not the low point of the company like you think it is.

The Z10 has done good enough to bring them back to relevancy

Selling around a million Z10's has "done good enough" to stop them filing Chapter 11 and kept them a viable takeover target. Lenovo has been the favourite for a long time.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by baldrick

Just being dense is not necessarily a positive

but RIM on if that is what makes you happy

Sorry to put to rest your perverted joke but Rim is just an abbreviation.

The company is called Research In Motion.

No it isn't. It's called Blackberry.

I'll be nice and stop you making a c u n t of yourself (again).

RIM Changes Company Name to BlackBerry
By Hugo Miller - Jan 30, 2013 6:25 PM GMT+0300
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), taking the name of its best-known product, will now be known simply as BlackBerry, part of a comeback plan that includes unveiling a redesigned line of smartphones today.
The new name has been approved by the board and the company will begin trading under the ticker BBRY on the Nasdaq Stock Market and BB in Toronto, Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben said in an interview. The change is designed to put the Waterloo, Ontario-based company’s iconic product at the heart of its corporate branding, he said.

As I said a thousand times, BlackBerry was in some trouble. If you bought the stock in the lows of that trouble, you would walk away with a 30% gain. I don't even know where the stock is now but now is not the low point of the company like you think it is.

The Z10 has done good enough to bring them back to relevancy

Selling around a million Z10's has "done good enough" to stop them filing Chapter 11 and kept them a viable takeover target. Lenovo has been the favourite for a long time.

Gee, when Microsoft and Lenovo want to buy them then there is obviously something of value to be had.

Part of the reason the company got in toruble is because the owner and once CEO got too involved in trying to buy an NHL hockey team.

Balsillie offers $212.5M to bring Coyotes to Ontario - CBC



Balsillie's bid to buy Predators hits snag - CBC



jim balsillie signs purchase agreement to buy pittsburgh

penguins.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=494839‎

WTF are you on about, socal? They aren't in trouble because of the owner. They're in trouble because they smugly sat on their product and didn't notice Apple and Google stealing all their customers.

They honestly thought they could ride it out.

Worst management team EVER, second only to Nokia in my opinion. (Well OK, Enron is hard to beat).

Lenovo want them because if they do decide to move into any kind of service provisioning business it would be a reasonable fit and quite cheap.

But if they keep losing corporate customers at their current rate, they soon won't be worthy buying.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

WTF are you on about, socal? They aren't in trouble because of the owner. They're in trouble because they smugly sat on their product and didn't notice Apple and Google stealing all their customers.

They honestly thought they could ride it out.

Worst management team EVER, second only to Nokia in my opinion. (Well OK, Enron is hard to beat).

Lenovo want them because if they do decide to move into any kind of service provisioning business it would be a reasonable fit and quite cheap.

But if they keep losing corporate customers at their current rate, they soon won't be worthy buying.

So you expected a small company from Waterloo Ontario was going to corner the smartphone market forever ? It is a feat in itself that they are still in it considering the size of these other companies.

Lets see who still uses them.

President Barack Obama

The President of the United States, Barack Obama, became known for his dependence on a BlackBerry device for communication during his 2008 presidential campaign. Despite the security issues, he insisted on using it even after inauguration.[50] This was seen by some as akin to a "celebrity endorsement," which marketing experts have estimated to be worth between $25 and $50 million.[51]

Use by government forces

An example is the West Yorkshire Police, which has allowed the increase in the presence of police officers along the streets and a reduction in public spending, given that each officer could perform the work desk directly via the mobile device,[52] as well as in several other areas and situations.[53] The US Federal Government and Department of Defense are also prominent examples of BlackBerry device users, the latter agency even stating that the BlackBerry smartphone is "essential for national security"[citation needed] because of the large number of BlackBerry users in the government. The high encryption standard of BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook tablet allow them to be the only consumer handheld devices certified for use by US Government agencies.
Use by transportation staff

In the United Kingdom, South West Trains and Northern Rail have issued BlackBerry devices to guards in order to improve the communication between control, guards and passengers.[54][55]

In Canada, Toronto and many other municipalities within Canada have issued BlackBerry devices to most of its employees including but not limited to transportation, technical, water and operations inspection staff and all management staff in order to improve the communication between contracted construction companies, its winter maintenance operations and to assist and successfully organize multi-million dollar contracts. The devices are the standard mobile device to receive e-mail redirected from GroupWise. All Blackberry models also provide cellular voice services. The City's e-mail environment is currently set up to support "ONLY" Blackberry devices

Other users

Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, is a longtime BlackBerry user. Although smartphones running Google's Android mobile operating system compete with BlackBerry, Schmidt said in a 2013 interview that he uses a BlackBerry because he prefers its keyboard.[57]

The Italian criminal group known as the 'Ndrangheta was reported on February 2009 to have communicated overseas with the Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug cartel, through the use of the BlackBerry, since the texts are "normally difficult to intercept".[58]

Idp

Originally Posted by socal

So you expected a small company from Waterloo Ontario was going to corner the smartphone market forever ?

At their peak, they were worth nearly $68 BILLION, and had 80 million subscribers (according to RIM). Small company, my arse.

Now they are worth a handful of billion and they've lost 8-9 million subscribers (and a shedload of money) in just over a year.

No business should rest on its laurels, it's not enough in consumer electronics, you have to constantly innovate.

IMO, like Nokia, they should have taken their handset strengths and created Android handsets. It's not like they're both making money out of advertising, so what difference would it have made, other than that they would have been able to offer a wanted product when demand started to grow.

They're probably doomed as a phone manufacturer. Maybe someone can do what Nokia employees did with Meego and try something new.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by socal

So you expected a small company from Waterloo Ontario was going to corner the smartphone market forever ?

At their peak, they were worth nearly $68 BILLION, and had 80 million subscribers (according to RIM). Small company, my arse.

Now they are worth a handful of billion and they've lost 8-9 million subscribers (and a shedload of money) in just over a year.

No business should rest on its laurels, it's not enough in consumer electronics, you have to constantly innovate.

IMO, like Nokia, they should have taken their handset strengths and created Android handsets. It's not like they're both making money out of advertising, so what difference would it have made, other than that they would have been able to offer a wanted product when demand started to grow.

They're probably doomed as a phone manufacturer. Maybe someone can do what Nokia employees did with Meego and try something new.

Hemroid is a childish looking , unsecured ,spamware, malware and virus and pleagued .

^ You must have typed that on your Blackbotty.

Originally Posted by Gerbil

^ You must have typed that on your Blackbotty.

Is that a slite against BB ?

what do you have ?

Real men don't carry 'smart' phones.

Originally Posted by Gerbil

Real men don't carry 'smart' phones.

Some people used to say that about cell phones.

Do you have a cell phone ?

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by Gerbil

^ You must have typed that on your Blackbotty.

Is that a slite against BB ?

what do you have ?

Looks like the Bilgeberry spill chucker doesn't work too well, does it?

Originally Posted by Gerbil

Real men don't carry 'smart' phones.

I can understand people get a bit insecure when they believe they are carrying a phone that is smarter than themselves.

^ let's see some of your own shots Betty, you Ahmed and Mo in the hot tub

That is me in the pink bikini. Here's another:



& another:



& another:



& a coliage I created:

You can't do that with your Blackberry or iPhone...

Although, I hear that Samsung are now copying Sony by bringing out a waterproof S4; looks a bit naff though...



(actually, it looks ok)

Nice tits Betty