New touchscreen BlackBerrys to feature redesigned virtual keyboards: RIM
North ontario
Go RIM. Looking Forward to the BB10. Have my name on waiting list.
pjews
An excellent article by Mr.Matt Hartley. He must be a doing lots of survey on the topics he writes about.
I wish all tech writers would have that kind of skill. Thank you.
dannyR
Yes, and RIM thanks Matt as well. Never did a company get so much ad copy without having to pay for it. Other companies must be jealous.
mark7smyth
It will be no more RIM. They are dropping it for the name BlackBerry. Everyone knows BB but only some know what RIM means. Simple and it just plain works. By the way, with the new BB10 phones out next month, they have BBM Voice & Video chat for free as long as you are in a WiFi zone and chatting with another BB10 user. It's like Skype, only better because it's free and you end up going through one of the 250 BlackBerry severs around the world. Clear sound and video too. Oh Baby, show me what you've got.
MonkEBizness
Go RIM - can't wait for the qwerty bb10!
Gardiner Hanson
A keyboard that learns from your keystrokes and then adjusts itself over time to improve it's functionality for the dedicated user...That's frickin awesome!! Great work RIM.
sonbuster
BB10/QNX is just the surface, digging deeper you'll see an extremely forward looking company. Check out their vision re: M2M, also their partnership with visa is going to be very positive for the company. Even the sky is not the limit
Lando Calrissian
Cool. Don't forget that, amongst the critics, are those 29% of RIM stockholders who are shorting the stock and who don't want the Blackberry to catch on. I'm betting that almost all of the 79 million users are just waiting to upgrade. Had they been willing to switch to iSung they would have done so already.
Jonathan
Clearly there are financial interests with the naysayers. You can read it in most of these articles, blogs and comments where clearly the person is using personal bias, incorrect information and a lack of facts to back themselves up. People don't do that unless they are making money from it or they are fifteen.
G Bush
well I for one will be getting 2
I am totally fed up with the crappy hardware from samsung...my phone is a yr old and I have to remove the battery to turn it off..what a piece of sh,..t!
the koreans can't make cars and they can't make phones
and I just dropped my imac off at the staples recycle bin...got a dell ..what an improvement
MiddleGround
Huh. That's actually pretty cool. I moved on to an iPhone but I'd be happy to see RIM make a comeback next year.
David Beckman
All over the world, in every single major city, people will be lined up overnight to get their hands on this revolutionary plastic with shiny lights! A Super Bowl ad means it's very good.
Jonathan
$3-4 million wisely spent.. they already have a ton of free press over it.
Rodimus Prime
A Super Bowl ad means they paid mega bucks for time.
Windfall
A remarkable achievement for a company that hasn't fielded a new phone in 2-3 to have such a strong subscriber and fan base! The excitement about the new phones is terrific but the real RIM story is not solely about winning 'consumer' for high end phones...Their substantial growing subscriber base in emerging nations, primacy in secure encryption, use of smartphone devices in the huge emerging market of financial transactions, the growing use of the QNX operating system in the automotive and robotics industries, their porting of apps from IOS and Android and their support for BB10 in the IOS and Android devices shows a company that is an exemplar in many differing dimensions..GO RIM!
Bert
Love my 9900. Will never, ever, give up a physical keyboard. EVER! For the first time in my life, I'm actually looking forward to the new phones.
Western Worker
yep..had an 8830 as my first, then a bold 9000 (used unit and worked for me perfectly for over 3 yrs,) now with a BNIB 9900 .. its been excellent for the past 2 yrs now. so perfectly normal to be looking forward to the 10..with a qwerty keybrd...but we'll check out the virtual one too.!
MediaCritiquer.com
I'm rooting for RIM. Please just release everything on time, including the actual handsets that have an ETA of late March (?!).
ExcitedForBB10
I am soooooooooooo excited! Only two more sleeps until BB10 is shown off to the world. I personally am going full touch (already reserved my BB10 phone) but I think it would be awesome if they would release a either a torch style device or side slider so you have the best of the full touch screen and the old school QWERTY.
I have a bunch of freinds and family that are either upgrading their current BB, coming back to BB, or getting their first BB with the release of BB10 and the majority of them are paying off contracts early so they can rid of their current devices. It is nice to see some excitement and buzz around RIM. A 180 degree difference from articles being written last year.
cdn1979
They still need a BB10 with buttons.
Donald Blair
The traditional tactile keyboard model apparently debuts a few weeks after the touch-screen device.
David Beckman
BB10 is going to revolutionize the smartphone and tablet industry, a total game changer. I can just feel it, the world has yet to see anything like this. I already own a BlackBerry PlayBook, but I can barely wait to get a new one. I'm just so curious to see one of their products powered by the new GNX software.
Jonathan
I have owned a BlackBerry since 2004. I have gone through six devices. I never had one single hardware issue. I've dropped them hundreds of times on tiled floors, i've taken them out in minus 40'C weather, stick it in my pants pockets unprotected and let them get wet in the rain. Nothing, not even a significant scratch! Now I know hardware issues to do exist, but I can't imagine that the alternative phones are any better on quality than that. Hell iPhones scare me, if you drop it once you have to replace it. And if your response to that is 'you need an Otterbox' than frankly, the phone is no longer sexy anyways.
Marc Levasseur
Currently have the 9900. Love it. So I as well will be purchasing the physical keyboard version! Hopefully they'll release it soon.
TeddyOctober
I'm hoping they figure out the most basic thing that they've failed to get right on every single Blackberry released to date...a functional & well integrated web browser.
TO
Have you read any of the browser testing results? It is the BEST browser by far in ALL tests.
TeddyOctober
I will certainly check it out. I'm not so in love with my iPhone 4S that I wouldn't consider a different option.
TO
check out HTML5 test.com and others.
Tomcili
Will this be an "iPhone Killer" like the "iPad killer" Playbook used to be?
dannyR
Hey, don't be so negative. Or you will get such a "you-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about." from the RIM astroturfers.
Matt
Too bad RIM doesn't matter in the world.
Western Worker
no of course not...not in your little world
F k
What's will be better the l series looks amazing just the only downside no physical keyboard to that and I'm used to that, the keyboard version looks too much like the 9900 bold
Guest
Go Rim. Last kick at the can.
westnova
Wishing a successful launch for BB10. As canadians, we should all be proud of the pioneering innovations in the field of smart phone technology that RIM has been able to
bring out so far.
Q_Impact
Yes, the keyboard (physical or virtual) is very important and RIM has a great legacy in attention to that detail. Hopefully in their investigations they are making comparisons to SWYPE which I believe is the best of the virtual keyboards.
TO
Have you guys seen the demos of the new keyboard, it's incredible! My prediction is a lot of die hard QWERTY users will be converted to touch with this new keyboard. It's really amazing.
crawford jennings
What the market has proved is that customers are ruthless more now than ever. There is very little loyalty to a brand when a superior technology is presented to them...this will work in RIM's favor if they have done a good job...
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