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BlackBerry has negotiated with providers to present. BlackBerry Messenger chat service are succeeding SMS The BlackBerry providers would then pay for the service and infrastructure. The plan was eventually canceled at the last minute.

The service would be presented at the Mobile World Congress in late February, but the presentation is canceled, the Canadian newspaper Globe & Mail in a reconstruction of the past few years to BlackBerry. Several providers, including some major carriers in Europe, were interested to present.

BBM as successor to SMSProbably would

providers BBM then included on phones and smartphones, allowing users unlimited messages, photos and text messages could send default. BlackBerry would earn money through licensing of providers. Providers must now watched with dismay how WhatsApp dominates that market, while unlimited texting to many subscriptions is inbegrepren.

One condition would have been that BBM had to work. across all platforms Now brings BlackBerry from the providers of BBM apps for iOS and Android. Which went live last weekend, but those apps are postponed. Because of problems There is also reportedly a version for Windows Phone to.

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5 thick tears for BlackBerry - Macworld

Sep 28. 2013 Jasper Bakker Google+

Sep 28. 2013 Jasper Bakker Google+

Five – The demise of BlackBerry smartphone pioneer seems final. Who will miss the Canadian company? We all do. Why? For these five reasons.

PC uniformity

The disappearance of BlackBerry means the end for pluralism. The company that brought really usable keyboards to the mobile user, instead of mini-PC keyboards or number pads with repeat option to enter letters. The smartphone maker as of today still hold on with his Q10 and Q5 devices.

They

the part then, because those two models with hardware QWERTY keyboards are only half of the current BB10-range. The other two smartphones with version 10 of the all-new BlackBerry operating system built entirely touch. Where BlackBerry (formerly RIM) are key expertise apply, for a smart virtual keyboard.

What platform makers Apple and Google also do for their respective mobile operating systems iOS and Android. And what Microsoft, the number three mobile at great distances, also does for Windows Phone. In short, the devices look more and more alike.

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Uitgeïnnoveerd?

Perhaps it is logical that the once deemed indispensable keyboard BlackBerry devices and thus the worst of it. The smartphone is pretty much off. What makes the iPhone 5S of the first iPhone in terms of really fundamental issues of the unit? Faster processor, higher resolution screen, better graphics, more memory. It sounds rather like the recent history of the PC, which has not experienced in recent years. Really earthshaking revolutions

The end of BlackBerry may well be ushering the end of smartphone innovation. Apple seems in recent years mainly with narrow. Google seems to look good for Android. Competition to the iOS And Android powerhouse Samsung seems to specialize in imitating. A practice of phone makers who late Steve Jobs has excoriated. Loudly Although Apple in turn also borrows plays in Android which certain iOS features are concerned.

Maybe Apple’s top designer Jonathan Ive yet something else in store, after the fading of iOS 7. Or perhaps its CEO Tim Cook an innovative vision at the level of its predecessor Steve Jobs. Or should the innovation to come from a lot like Nokia? A mobile pioneer who like BlackBerry has not saved on your own.

Before and after the iPhone. And what next? With the iPhone 5C colors come back, but the shape remains the same.
Via: Cult of Mac

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Platform Duopoly

As it stands now, the smartphone market is likely to happen if the PC market as platforms are concerned the same. A large, widely used operating system software which is a party to various hardware supplies parties. In addition to a lucrative, but less used massively popular operating system which a company provides closely tailored to its own hardware. Respectively, so Windows and Android, alongside Mac OS (X) and iOS.

Unless Microsoft knows well behind to catch up, it is now a duopoly which mobile platforms are concerned. Users and developers base their choices on app availability, target group and willingness to spend. In short, newcomers have little to no chance.

Microsoft is initially purely gone for the PC model, selling to hardware partners. because of its mobile operating system license Now, with the annexation of the cases phone maker Nokia, the Windows Phone maker follows the example of Apple. But whether that is sufficient to turn the tide, that is the question. Windows alternatives like Be OS and various Linux desktop distributions are all not broken.

American dominance

The lower

go BlackBerry also means the disappearance of the last ‘foreign’ option for mobile platforms. Yes, the many different Android device makers are mostly Asian but they rely for their operating system on the American Google. Android formally created by an alliance of those partners, but in doing so has Google founder and driving force still in control.

And the Finnish Nokia, already switched to Windows Phone, is now being bought by Microsoft. Incidentally, not very Nokia: the company CEO Steve Ballmer takes the mobile telefonietak of former competitor in the house. The remaining Nokia plunges on telecom infrastructure pus-services are maps and navigation LORD, and the research arm Advanced Technologies. This last pillar of the remaining Nokia can sometimes prove to be.

dangerous

Patent Arsenal

Dangerous is a description that also applies to the mountain patents that BlackBerry has. A property with an estimated value of $ 2.25 billion. Gold mine, the company does not know from the hands of third parties to keep. Additional Treasury is the multitude of patent agreements concluded with various patent opponents the Canadian company over the years, competitors and patent trolls

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see what the new owners of BlackBerry will do with its acquisition. The company divided, and then resell the debris? Rumors of such a scenario have already surfaced and such practices are more often used for takeovers of ailing companies. The investor wants to make returns and having to be in the ordinary course.

not met

Going BlackBerry’s patents under the hammer? Then follows a aanwakkering the patent war, as has been done by the auction of the bankrupt Nortel. A telecom company which incidentally was a compatriot of BlackBerry.

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Nearly $ 1 billion loss in BlackBerry - BNR

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The turnover almost halved. This is evident from the final results that the company brought out Friday.

The net loss amounted to 965 million compared with a loss of $ 84 million a year earlier. Sales fell 49 percent to $ 1.6 billion. The Z10 does not hit with consumers, and the Canadian company decided to write off the stock. The manufacturer has lost a lot of ground to rivals such as Apple and Samsung in recent years. BlackBerry stayed long stick to phones with full keyboard, while the customer switched to the touch screens of peers.

“We are very disappointed with the results and have announced a series of far-reaching measures,” said CEO Thorsten Heins. The company releases include 4500 employees , approximately 40 percent of the total. According to the CEO create some activities “uncertainty”, but he stressed that BlackBerry is financially strong stands. The company has $ 2.6 billion in cash and debt.

Servers BlackBerry will focus on the business market, including the supply of servers. The company has so far installed more than 25,000 servers for the service BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. In late July the counter was still at 19,000 pieces.

Majority shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings sees are still with the company and want to get along with other investors of the stock market. The group offers $ 9 per share, BlackBerry valued at 4.7 billion dollars.

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Phone Manufacturer BlackBerry has in the second quarter loss of nearly $ 1 billion (738 million euros) ago, mainly due to a depreciation of about 934 million dollars on the stock Z10 smartphones. The turnover almost halved. This is evident from the final results that the company brought out today.

The net loss amounted to 965 million compared with a loss of $ 84 million a year earlier. Sales fell 49 percent to $ 1.6 billion. The Z10 does not hit with consumers, and the Canadian company decided to write off the stock.

The manufacturer has lost a lot of ground to rivals such as Apple and Samsung in recent years. BlackBerry stayed long stick to phones with full keyboard, while the customer switched to the touch screens of peers. “We are very disappointed with the results and have a series of far-reaching measures announced,” said CEO Thorsten Heins. The company releases include 4500 employees, approximately 40 percent of the total.

According to the CEO create some activities ‘uncertainty’, but he stressed that BlackBerry is financially strong stands. The company has $ 2.6 billion in cash and debt. BlackBerry will focus on the business market, including the supply of servers. The company has so far installed more than 25,000 servers for the service BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. In late July the counter was still at 19,000 pieces.

Major shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings sees are still with the company and want to get along with other investors of the stock market. The group offers $ 9 per share, BlackBerry valued at 4.7 billion dollars.

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BlackBerry Q5 - Intermediate with touchscreen and keyboard - Computer Total

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The BlackBerry Q5 has a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard, the best of both worlds or old-fashioned? This traditional appearance, and the BlackBerry 10 operating system, trying to get between the popular iPhones and Galaxy’s. Q5 a place on the market Is that successful?

3.2

• Few apps
  
• Moderate cameras

• QWERTY keyboard
  
• Business look
  
• BlackBerry Hub
  

BlackBerry Q5

Price € 334, –
OS BlackBerry 10
Display 3.1 inches (720 x 720 pixels)
Processor Dualcore (1.2GHz)
Memory 2GB RAM
Storage 8 GB (expandable with microSD)
Battery 2180mAh
Camera for
2MP Back Camera 5 megapixel
Dimensions 120 x 66 x 11 millimeters
Weight 120 grams

BlackBerry Q5 It is built much like its larger and more expensive sibling, the Q10 (review). Because of this iconic look, it becomes quickly recognized. The only major difference with the older variations is the absence of the well-known trackball. With the presence of a touch screen, this part namely superfluous. In my view a progress, because everyone knows someone with this part broke.

The touchscreen of the Q5

Especially in the beginning it took a while before I had the 3.1-inch touchscreen BlackBerry Q5 mastered. There must be a lot of left, right, up and swept down to reach.

the various components

The square screen, rounded plastic case and keyboard, see the BlackBerry Q5 traditionally out.

the first half hour, I went looking for wild therefore the home screen. After all, I was already my favorite apps give a spot on this page. To my great surprise, I found out that it is not a traditional home screen is present in the BlackBerry 10 operating system. You can scroll between all your apps, your open applications and the BlackBerry Hub.

BlackBerry Hub

After processing, this disappointment I proceeded to install the apps. After the first necessity of life (WhatsApp course), the mailboxes were on the turn. The installation went smoothly, only I had no idea where I had them installed.

The BlackBerry Q5 is 11 millimeters what on the thick side .

It is true that the new generation of BlackBerry smartphones not separate mailbox icons available, but collects all messages in the Hub. You can choose a complete overview of all incoming messages, but also a happy medium and separate mailbox. This applies to your email, social media, WhatsApp and BlackBerry Messenger. Getting used to, but it gives a lot of rest. Because you do not have to go to answer all messages to the appropriate application can from one location.

Apps on BlackBerry 10

installing my favorite apps quickly stopped when I found out that the offer is in the BlackBerry World (BlackBerry’s app store) is very limited. Although I was warned, it struck me very disappointing. In addition, you should almost always pay for the better quality apps.

Personally, I especially missed the fun camera apps I’m used to the average Android or iOS phone. The photo editing apps are minimal and a reworking is unfortunately often required by the moderate 5-megapixel camera.

BlackBerry get off consumer

After the failed launches of the Z10 and Q10, BlackBerry has recently announced to attract the consumer. withdrew So that means this Q5 is one of the latest BlackBerry phones is that we will see are. In stores In the second quarter of this year the company suffered a loss of nearly $ 1 billion. BlackBerry sold only 3.7 million phones.

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Conclusion

In my view, a BlackBerry smartphone is still the most suitable for the businessmen among us. As the QWERTY keyboard makes typing fast and accurately as possible, to just a little the last things to settle, and the design of the Q5 is simple and sleek. Thanks to the Hub can also easily respond from different apps on the latest posts, and it offers a nice overview. However, if you are more graphic and set a high value on apps, I can not call the BlackBerry Q5 as recommended. The device feels somewhat cheap thereby also through its plastic casing, but you do not pay it the prize for.

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BlackBerry does not come with quarterly figures - Volkskrant

Edited by: editor – 09/26/13, 13:49 – Source: Reuters / BuzzT

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BlackBerry, the presentation of the figures for the second quarter vented. The presentation had Friday to take place, but has become obsolete in the Canadian smartphone maker after the acquisition by the investment company Fairfax Financial Holdings.

It is not the first time this week that BlackBerry postpone something. Rather let the company know that it is certainly wait a week with the release of BlackBerry Messenger for iOS and Android. There were major problems with the initial rollout as a trial version was leaked which caused extreme amounts of data.

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Sep 26. 2013 Chris Koenis Google+

Sep 26. 2013 Chris Koenis Google+

News – The first impact of BlackBerry’s choice to the consumer to ignore be visible. T-Mobile stops the retail sales in the U.S.. In the Netherlands, there is as yet nothing changes.

Provider T-Mobile stops in its U.S. stores selling BlackBerry smartphones. T-Mobile has responded to the change of the Canadian manufacturer. BlackBerry now focuses only on the business market. Monday it was announced that Fairfax BlackBerry investor wants to buy.

‘Store Inventory inefficient’

T-Mobile is no more efficiency in building a store stock, so late Vice President David Carey know told Reuters. This is due to the low demand by consumers for BlackBerry devices. Those who still want a BlackBerry from T-Mobile to get the device after order sent home. In the shops will therefore still be a display model shown. According to Carey BlackBerry smartphones are mainly bought by companies who do their purchasing in the store.

T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest mobile provider and a prize fighter in America, is an independent part of the German telecom giant. It can therefore make its own decisions. What the Dutch consequences of the possible BlackBerry sale to Fairfax are still unclear. T-Mobile Netherlands Macworld let know no announcements about.

hereQuarterly figures

canceled

Meanwhile

BlackBerry is not itself this week with the financial results. The planned publication of the quarterly figures next Friday has been canceled. This is due to the takeover bid of $ 4.7 billion. Fairfax is currently conducting due diligence in Waterloo and has the option to still restrained the sale to see.

off on the basis of

deferred quarterly BlackBerry besides affirmed dismissal of 4500 workers certainly also expected to make a significant operating loss known. Sales of mobile devices has taken a nosedive to only 3.7 million units.

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Developments are currently quick BlackBerry. So the company seems completely disappear from the market and so it is taken over by investors and diving suddenly photos on new devices. According to BGR, the company will soon release a cheaper version of the Q5.

phone with qwerty keyboard, codenamed Kopi inherited and would be considerably lower than the Q5 priced. The latter device is the BlackBerry 10 replacement of the once successful BlackBerry Bold. In the BlackBerry Kopi would, despite the lower price, a faster processor then be inserted in the Q5, but high-end features like 4G are there then not.

On leaked pictures shows that the device has the typical BlackBerry keyboard, but little else to offer spectacular in design. The Kopi is strongly reminiscent of a Palm PDA a few years ago.

In addition to the BlackBerry Q5 would also work behind the scenes to a cheaper alternative to the Z10 and Z30.

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Blackberry: deep valleys and high peaks - Nutech

Blackberry is, if all goes well, soon acquired for the relatively low amount of $ 4.7 billion. The smartphone manufacturer is in a deep valley, but once towered above from Apple and Samsung.

Nearly $ 5 billion is a substantial amount, but the company still time Research In Motion (RIM) was called at the peak around 2009 worth about $ 75 billion. RIM hammered together with Nokia for years on the road when Apple entered the mobile phone market in 2007. Samsung was really involved in 2010 with the Galaxy S.

BLACKBERRY’S THROUGH THE YEARS

RIM had at the peak market share of 20 percent. That was in 2009. Blackberry should now do with a few percent of the total market. The company also will stop making consumer products and focuses in the future entirely on the business market.

Business vs. consumer

There Blackberry originates therefore from. The famous phone with a physical keyboard and BlackBerry Messenger, in the Netherlands better known as Ping, were years ago hugely popular with businesses. All workers were equipped with a Blackberry and that influenced the streetscape.

When people wanted to use in their free time, a Blackberry smartphone itself made almost automatically switched to the consumer. For example, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the phones were popular among teenagers, precisely because of the ping.

In 2006 Blackberry started making phones specifically for the consumer market. The Blackberry 8700 was the first example of. The phones had a better screen, more memory, could ping, were equipped with a camera and possessed map software. This did popular series such as the Curve, Torch and Bold on.

Whatsapp

Whatsapp has also played a significant role in the declining popularity of Blackberry’s. The chatapp could be used in many more different phones and also had additional functionalities. Blackberry Messenger was the predecessor of Whatsapp and Blackberry was not prepared to compete.

Also the screens of Blackberry’s over time very small compared to the competition, there were more apps made for Android and iOS and Blackberry was not hip. That meant at breakneck speed the ‘end’ of Blackberry.

early 2011 Blackberry was still on a share of 13 percent, a year later and 6.7 percent in the second quarter of 2013 it was still only 2.74 percent. Blackberry has now been overtaken by Microsoft with Windows Phone.

Android

Whether Android now has been the downfall of Blackberry or has only benefited, responsible the rise of Android is equal to the decrease of Blackberry. After 2010 saw the market share of Google Android explode from less than 10 percent to more than half of the market. The share of Blackberry evaporated simultaneously.

Move the cursor over the line to see the percentages . The data comes from Gartner. View a larger version. – (C) NU.nl / Jerry Warn

That probably has a lot to do with the rise of touch screens. Apple started this trend in 2007 when the iPhone first appeared. Blackberry and Microsoft insisted on the importance of a keyboard, but Apple and later the Android manufacturers knew masses of people to pull out their phones without keyboard.

to

Touchscreen Blackberry was not part where many knew about. The screen quality also did not play a very important role and the apps were not designed for larger displays. The company tried the Blackberry Torch and Curve without a physical keyboard still going along with the trend, but did not succeed. The ease of use was not optimal and especially the number of apps lagged far behind.

Blackberry Bold 9900 with keyboard was still well received in September 2011. The phone did Blackberry honor with its excellent keyboard and good housing, however, sales remained behind. That also happened to be the only tablet that Blackberry ever made, the PlayBook.

Playbook

mid-2011 came from the PlayBook, a tablet with a new operating system and a lot of restrictions. The device should be able to use the extra secure email a flagship of RIM, coupled with a Blackberry phone. Because it was a whole new system, the number of apps is very limited.

In total, the company has an estimated 2.5 million PlayBooks shipped in two years. The question is how many of them have been sold and how many are used. The PlayBook weighed heavily on the financial results of RIM and was regularly sold at dumping prices. The company gave several occasions openly admitted to have made at the launch errors. A real improvement never came.

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Blackberry 10

The company also came in early 2013 with all new smartphones and a whole new operating system. Blackberry 10 looked different, had more features and supported devices without physical keyboard. Developers had a new system to work. The number of apps was here at the beginning of a problem. Popular players like Whatsapp missing.

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Future

The question is whether there is a future for Blackberry. Competition in the smartphone market, the company has become too much, but Blackberry has thousands of key patents in the hands and that is worth something. Moreover, there is the safety and reliability of the devices still nothing wrong.

also owns a Blackberry secure network over which the emails and Blackberry Messenger messages are sent. Although the U.S. Secret Service NSA there allegedly have been able to tap.

the messages

Fairfax, a inversteerder together with other companies will take over Blackberry for $ 4.7 billion late in a response to the bid know they want to continue with the long term strategy of the company.

“We believe this acquisition will provide space for a new chapter for Blackberry, customers, providers and employees. We will provide immediate value to shareholders while we continue to put in a non-listed company with a long-term goals focus on providing superior and secure business solutions. “

Or Fairfax also intends to continue its services and infrastructure, for example, or to sell to other businesses devices is not yet known. The acquisition is also subject to approval and may follow new bids.

By: NU.nl / Colin Angle

BlackBerry sold, disappears from the market - ZDNet.nl

Summary: BlackBerry’s largest shareholder buys the phone manufacturer for 4.7 billion euros and takes it off the market to work on a comeback. Interested companies have until November to come.

with a better offer

BlackBerry announced on Monday that it has entered into with Fairfax Financial, the phone maker for $ 9 per share will take over, worth approximately 4.7 billion dollars (3.5 billion euros) an agreement. This bought out shareholders get something more than the current price per share of 8.25 dollars.

Canadian investment company had 10 percent of the shares and will be investing in the consortium that the phone maker will henceforth lead. Fairfax CEO Prem Watsa says he still sees a future in the company:

“We believe this transaction is an exciting new (private) chapter will start for BlackBerry, customers, operators and employees. We can provide immediate value to shareholders while we continue to implement a long term strategy in a private company that focuses on delivering superior and secure enterprise solutions for customers of BlackBerry around the world. “

the deal of $ 4.7 billion puts an end to the company that for years was a status symbol in the boardroom. Because the emergence of competitors such as Apple iOS and Google Android, however, underestimated the company in recent years came in a free fall.

Long agony
Since 2008, when BlackBerry was still at its peak, it still recorded a share price of $ 145. Five years later, the proportion was 94 percent of its value lost. BlackBerry worked with might and main to a comeback, but the meritorious BlackBerry 10 came too late to return.

the tide

The first model, the BlackBerry Z10, failed miserably and the Canadian company continued with thousands of unsold units sitting. The Q10, with the familiar keyboard, could only convince BlackBerry fans, while other consumers been abandoned.

This led to BlackBerry in the second quarter with a loss of a billion dollars. It recently also announced that 4,500 jobs will be deleted.

New chapter, or epilogue?
downsized BlackBerry in private hands will now fully focus on the enterprise market, though it is debatable whether it is on the market new competitors like Samsung of the web will be able to hold.

Because

BlackBerry has indicated that no longer want to focus on the consumer would just uigebrachte BlackBerry Z30 sometimes can be a collector’s item. It might be the last smartphone that it ever will bring on the market.