The Rise and Fall of the Blackberry

I used to issue the phones for about 5 sites with our Vodafone contract Vone C, we ended up switching from Blackberry to i-phone touch screen around 2016. Sent over 350 BlackBerry phones alone as well as some Nokia and Samsung to WEEE.
 
mercury_redstone7 said:
I used to issue the phones for about 5 sites with our Vodafone contract Vone C, we ended up switching from Blackberry to i-phone touch screen around 2016. Sent over 350 BlackBerry phones alone as well as some Nokia and Samsung to WEEE.
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Made sense. Blackberry stopped making phones in 2016 so you pretty much hung on to them to the end.
 
Zoophonic said:
Made sense. Blackberry stopped making phones in 2016 so you pretty much hung on to them to the end.
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Its a media firm so the commercial and editorial couldn't use apps on a touch screen and display art and down load large documents to be shown. So we ditched them and went over to smart phones.
 
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ThatFragranceGuy said:
It was gash which is why it fell on its **** spectacularly
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Its interesting that a lot of the design elements that WP had first have now found their way into Apple and Android. WP was not gash, but MS stupid decision making around development of apps meant a lot of top tier app makers stayed away from it. Thats what killed it.

I had 3 WP phones, all Lumia's from WP7 to WP10 and I loved them. The People hub app in WP7 was an absolute killer app, but the walled vendors like Facebook hated it because they couldn't push adds to it.

Its interesting that I went to MS Ignite in Amsterdam a few years ago and all the MS staff were using WP devices and this was after it had been discontinued. There is still a big following for WP on Reddit and Discord, people do love them, I did at the time.
 
BaronSmoggie said:
Its interesting that a lot of the design elements that WP had first have now found their way into Apple and Android. WP was not gash, but MS stupid decision making around development of apps meant a lot of top tier app makers stayed away from it. Thats what killed it.

I had 3 WP phones, all Lumia's from WP7 to WP10 and I loved them. The People hub app in WP7 was an absolute killer app, but the walled vendors like Facebook hated it because they couldn't push adds to it.

Its interesting that I went to MS Ignite in Amsterdam a few years ago and all the MS staff were using WP devices and this was after it had been discontinued. There is still a big following for WP on Reddit and Discord, people do love them, I did at the time.
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I had one of the Lumia phones it was mint. Wireless charging, amazing camera, quality build, great OS. Exactly like you said the proprietary app ecosystem was a nightmare.

I miss my Lumia Windows phone.
 
BaronSmoggie said:
Its interesting that a lot of the design elements that WP had first have now found their way into Apple and Android. WP was not gash, but MS stupid decision making around development of apps meant a lot of top tier app makers stayed away from it. Thats what killed it.

I had 3 WP phones, all Lumia's from WP7 to WP10 and I loved them. The People hub app in WP7 was an absolute killer app, but the walled vendors like Facebook hated it because they couldn't push adds to it.

Its interesting that I went to MS Ignite in Amsterdam a few years ago and all the MS staff were using WP devices and this was after it had been discontinued. There is still a big following for WP on Reddit and Discord, people do love them, I did at the time.
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I had a htc orange spv windows phone and it was super intuitive and functional a brilliant little phone for its time. It used the windows mobile os which was also used for windows pdas with stylus remember them.
Windows phone 7 was the replacement os on later devices with live tiles and i would agree with others on here it was absolutely awful in comparison .
 
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free_pint said:
The films been out a few months. Glen Howerton from its always sunny in a philadelphia is in it.
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They are still in the game albeit in a lesser form where they're driving EoT solutions. I'm not too sure if their business model can really compete with the likes of Nvidia or Synopsys but we'll see.
 
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