What really wrong with blackberry?

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That wasn’t supposed to happen, we will have to lay some people off.

LOL

I’m FAR from any sort of market knowledgeable personal, but even I can see they are lacking in new stuff to compete with android and apple.
I really HATE the iPhone I just can deal with it. I’m not much for the droid’s either.
I’m a fan of the BB, but there is just nothing there, besides BBM.
I would like to be able to get my hands on a faster Black berry, everything I use seems slow to me.

I am looking to switch off of BB simply because they are not keeping up in the technology department.

Yep, I finally did it a few months ago. Went to a Samsung Android phone, and don’t miss anything about the BB.

I would go out right now and spend a stupid amount of money if I could get a “rugged” smart phone.

for my money there is nothing better than a blackberry for email/messaging. Droid/iphone/winmo/etc does not come close.

This is definitely a niche backberry could fill

do you use corporate servers? I switched from a blackberry storm to a droid x last month, and the only things i don’t get on my droid that i did on my bb is bbm, and email, and facebook notification sounds, which is probably some setting i can’t find.

Enterprise echange intergration is SERIOUSLY lacking on the Android platform. They still haven’t done full integration with all of the security features of Activesync. It’s seriously disappointing.

I have heard that iPhone exchange accounts work pretty good. Windows Phone 7 is probably pretty good at it too but I’ve never handled one or know anyone who has.

As far as messaging goes, BBM is cool and all, from what I understand. Other than that, I don’t see how it coudl be that much better than Android or others. Google Talk for android ROCKS, handcent sms is a great texting app, gmail app is rock solid and just got a bunch more features.

Blackberry server software sucks btw

Yep, on the BES

Corporate lock-in is the only thing keeping them alive, and I hear more and more about companies offering an iphone or android alternative to their once blackberry-only corporate cell phone plan.

It’s funny that their strategic advantage used to be that their phones tied to their own servers that let them push email to your phone instantly. Now every phone does that and other companies said “holy shit if we offer unique services (itunes, google’s everything) people will buy our hardware” but Blackberry just sat there going “no really we’re more secure.”

they really are though.

I think it’s gingerbread that improves activesync on the droids. Other than not having the GAL built in, I really don’t have a problem with exchange on the Droid. We’re going to Exchange '10 servers at work so we’ll see how my iPhone and Droid match up.