I just wonder how quickly they can really turn it around - how much of it is a momentum thing? That and with Samsung and Apple taking essentially ALL the profit from the entire market, it's going to be rough going no matter how you slice it.
I'm certainly not claiming it will be easy, or that they'll even be able to do it. But bear in mind that Android phones were little more than a nerd novelty at the beginning of 2010, before 2.x was available. Things move fast.
All that said, RIM will probably shoot the BB10 phone in the leg before they even get out of the gate by calling it the BlackBerry Touch X or something equally stupid, and let it inherit the negative sentiment toward the BlackBerry brand in general.
We've got a Lumia 900 in the office. It's beautiful, runs really well, but it's huge. I'd put it on par with the Galaxy Nexus in terms of performance and size, but I'd say the Nexus beats it in terms of overall use AND weight. The Lumia is heavy.
If they managed to make the Lumia 800 not on Telus, gave it some more horsepower and a better display, I would be all over that phone.
These 4G phones that are the size of my old graphing calculator are garbage to me. I destroyed the display on the Galaxy Nexus we had because I couldn't get the damn thing to fit in my pocket, so it went into coat pockets, and then crashed to the ground on two occasions.
As for apps, WP7 apps have steadily become more relevant, and there is still a huge developer base they could get with. Plus the SDK, environment, IDE are all top notch. Nokia needs to get their asses in gear and start making more phones.
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Our company isn't too big but we have always used BB's exclusively. We probably have about 200 activated at the moment. Our IS department is nervous that RIM could unwind quickly in the future leaving them scrambling to switch out phones and replace the enterprise server. As such, they have started looking for alternatives and expect to be offering a full slate of phones by the fall. I am sure that there are some in the company that will continue to upgrade to a new blackberry every 18 months but I would imagine that most will migrate to Android or iPhones.
That said, most of the people that I know still rock the Blackberry, but most of them don't buy their own phones they are given to them at work.
I'm certainly not claiming it will be easy, or that they'll even be able to do it. But bear in mind that Android phones were little more than a nerd novelty at the beginning of 2010, before 2.x was available. Things move fast.
Analysts were predicting that Android would dominate the market back further than that. That was when Symbian was the most widely used smartphone OS.
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Developers were in orlando and I met a couple in a bar last night. Saw the phone looked nice. The guy wouldn't let me play with it though. He told me we should be excited for what rim is goin to bring but being a skeptic I told them they will screw it up
“It was more that we didn’t get a timing. So you had this sense that it could be a lot longer than people had hoped,” said Peter Misek, an equity analyst at Jefferies & Co.
“If they were going to launch hardware in late August/early September, chances were that they would have told us that at the conference. So not having it ready for that is one issue,” he said.
What’s more, if the launch comes around October, it could coincide with Apple Inc.’s launch of its iPhone 5, Michael Walkley, technology analyst at Canaccord Genuity, said in a note to clients Tuesday.
