Maybe if they still had the infrastructure and personnel to design, develop and manufacture a phone
Lets start poaching America Tech and knowledge workers to immigrat to Canada, could be a excellent opportunity especially with all the cuts and "efficiency restructuring "
Well, they could partner with Fairphone to develop and sell products in North America
Go read “Losing the Signal” about BB and you’ll see why they’re not coming back.
I know they’re not coming back, that’s why i wrote my message the way i did
Blackberry designs the OS, Nokia designs the phone, which can only be described as “Indestructable enough to survive an atomic blast”.
Seriously. 5000 years from now they’re going to remember humans as a species that built now crumbled buildings, and early 2000s cell phones which are still in great shape in the year 5025.
@lost_my_mind@lemmy.world hate to break it to you, but Nokia sold their brand to HMD Global, and their new phones are … lacking in the indestructibility department. They are hefty though, I will say.
I owned two of them, and I got the ones that worked well. Some of the QC was wonky too.
If Microsoft and Windows phone couldn’t do it, I have my doubts. And Windows phone 7/8 was actually a good product.
very fast, especially considering how underpowered they were on paper
Issue is, Microsoft got the wrong lessons from Apple, and made even more Apple-like phones…
I wouldn’t go that far. They interface was nice but the apps sucked and the ecosystem was totally locked down.
Canadian made cellphone
And it isn’t called Maple???
Not going to happen. Not for a long time. As much as we would want it to.
The phone market is brutally, viciously competitive and an outsider trying to jump in without Android or iOS is almost guaranteed to fail. We used to have numerous options from all kinds of companies that came with a variety of operating systems but each one fell to the duopoly.
People are glued to their phones and social media more than ever. I would expect an attempt to get them to move to a non-American mobile operating system and phone would fail very quickly. Blackberry did used to make their own line of phones that ran BB10 and they were excellent. Nobody bought them though, or at least not enough to justify their continued production. Even fewer bought the following Android-powered BB phones and eventually Blackberry pulled out of the market. The same story for Windows mobile phones.
There are plenty of options for non-American cellphones and I’m sure in the coming years we will see Canadian ones too. The problem is that they will almost certainly run Android which means American control over your data and feeds. Getting Canadians to accept a sacrifice in short-term phone functionality to regain digital freedom in the long run is a tall order.
They had a working qnx phone that ran Android apps, but google didn’t let them run some essential services and store support was awful.
It was a good attempt though. Bb app devs were getting paid a lot better than Apple/android/microsoft because the apps could be priced higher. It’s the “free” apps that were a problem.
Netflix actively declined 2 full time devs paid for by BlackBerry to build and maintain an app. They weren’t going to get any additional subs from Netflix on qnx, it was just going to be a development boat anchor.
I still have my red bb passport and to this day still think it was the best mobile phone ever made.
Didn’t everyone abandon them when RIM kept giving away their encryption keys to any dictator that sent them a request?
Nah. That’s what made cool people abandon them.
The normies abandoned them because iPhones were cooler.
Nah they’re a software company now. They are not the giant they were in the past.
I think they sold the rights to a Blackberry phone to Chinese company, TCL or Foxconn I think. They advertised a phone, but it was never made.
The Blackberry Passport was the best smartphone I ever used:
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Blackberry Hub let you manage texts, emails, whatsapp/messaging apps, and facebook/social media messages all from the same app, accessible at any time by swiping from the left side of the screen
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You could sideload and run Android apps for anything that didnt have a Blackberry native app
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The physical keyboard was also a touchpad
Let me guess the only smartphone you have used is:
- Blackberry Passport
Posted from my:
- Blackberry Passport :)
jk
I’ve had iPhones, Oneplus phones, and a Pixel since. The Blackberry was the best experience overall.
Lol thanks for having a good sense of humor.
In the case you are being serious I would recommend not using a phone that is well past EOL.
“jk" means “just kidding”. i couldn’t think of a better way to show i was not serious
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If it ends up being a good phone, I’d but it
You’d shove it up your butt? What?
Buy*
Would much rather see Sidekick make a return. People that like BlackBerry are the same ones that love paying for Windows. They just like to burn money.
Except they were not competing. That was the problem.
Also Canada really isn’t the big of a country population wise and even in the US there really isn’t any chip manufacturing. All “American” phones are made in Taiwan.
I remember the CEO shaming Apple for providing unbreakable encryption, hard to believe anyone would trust them with a stance like that.
Oh I forgot about this shit. Yeah.
It won’t happen, but you have no idea how fast I would produce my credit card if it did.
In the meantime I’m looking to replace my iPhone with a Fairphone.
I just miss that crackberry keyboard.
They had the whole market and fucked it up by ignoring all of us beta testers who were telling them the firmware was crap (because it has been ignored for years).
Pitter patter
