![]() ![]() This is so simple, I can’t understand why it didn’t make the cut for the 2.0 release. Which means that if your babysitter calls to say he/she is on his/her way to the hospital with your child, you won’t know for longer than you’d like to. Which means you can’t have it on your hip at the Opera or in a meeting without changing the notification mode to “silent”. Telephone calls still can’t be received in the traditional “vibrate twice then ring” mode, unlike on the 9900 or 9700. The battery doesn’t get me through a day trip to Boston, even if I turn off the Bluetooth and WiFi, unless I stay completely off every social media app (such as Twitter). I had to buy a clunky app to sync music, which now creates an error every time a turn on my desktop each morning. My BlackBerry Link (the desktop manager) finds every photo and word document (in the thousands in each case) on my desktop hard drive but still cannot find the iTunes song catalogue. And no, Foursquare is not the same: no store hours. Hopefully a virtual trackpad is just around the corner. By ditching the trackpad, everyone has a far harder time fixing typos or editing emails, and an impossible task if you want to cut and paste text. When you put conference call details into a meeting maker, you often are able to dial-in with a single touch. If you are typing an email or reading about Rob Ford’s daily combustion on Twitter and an email comes in, you get a mini preview at the top of the screen. When you respond to emails on the Q10, your Microsoft Outlook email didn’t show that the email in question had been responded to, unlike what happened with the 9900, 9700, etc. Hooray!Īnd the good news is that some of the complaints I had back in June have been fixed, while other neat upgrades have made their way into the mix, as well: Our handset of choice is now backed by up to $1 billion of new cash via a convertible unsecured debt deal, costs have been cut, Thorsten is out, and the 2.0 software package is finally out. At least temporarily, as the company will surely be sold before the decade is out. The rest is history, or in the case of Fairfax’s stated excuse for why they didn’t complete the previously-announced $9 take-private deal - the debt was too expensive (no surprise there!) - revisionist history.įor the Q10 user, however, perhaps this is the best outcome. It took the BlackBerry Board of Directors just a few weeks to acknowledge the situation, and the company was put up for sale – again- at the end of August. I caught a lot of flak from some of the “long BBRY” readers at Seeking Alpha, who were convinced that I was a pawn of the shorts. The stock has fallen from $14.65 to $6.90 since that post, so at least I avoided further losses. I immediately sold my long-held shares on the premise that if the Q10 wasn’t going to reignite the core BlackBerry enterprise market, then the hope of a $20 M&A exit price was in tatters (see prior posts “ Throwing in the towel on my RIM shares” June 24-13 and “ Throwing in the towel on my RIM shares part 2” June 26-13). ![]() It wasn’t going to set the world on fire, despite what the old or new management had been telling the media. When I first got my Q10, I tried it for a month before concluding that it certainly hadn’t lived up to expectations, and there was plenty wrong with the product. BlackBerry’s (BBRY) software engineers released the Q10′s 2.0 software update around the same time that the company’s Board of Directors concluded that the best course of action was to go-it-alone for now, and cancel its unusual sale process.
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