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    Quote Originally Posted by The Joker View Post
    I don't get that xD I never used a blackberry and neither did any of my mates. My mom and my sisters did though lol
    The only thing that made blackberry stay as long as it did was the low cost internet and bbm and that's it.
    Way back before the cheap internet and bbm thing Blackberry used to be like a status symbol. Business men only... then teenage girls and now dead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Joker View Post
    I don't get that xD I never used a blackberry and neither did any of my mates. My mom and my sisters did though lol
    The only thing that made blackberry stay as long as it did was the low cost internet and bbm and that's it.
    Only really in SA imo. Its funny because SA's one of the only places that BBM and this 'low cost internet' was a pull feature. BB is pretty much a business phone elsewhere.
    Always amazing me too though, I never understood it. Horrible small keyboards, small screens, and pretty terrible reliability. If I has R10 for every facebook news feed post, "MY BB died, I have a new one, pin: XXXXX, add me pls!", I'd be a rich man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McT View Post
    An unfortunate end to something that use to rule the roost. Quite sad actually.
    Quote Originally Posted by Eugene View Post
    Citation needed.
    This published in Tech Central yesterday:

    It’s all over. BlackBerry, which once led the smartphone market, has agreed to be bought by a consortium, led by major shareholder Fairfax Financial. The proposed deal is subject to the conclusion of a due diligence of the business.
    This from MyBroadband today:

    There are few arenas more brutal and merciless than the cellphone market. In just five years Blackberry has gone from the world’s leading smartphone brand to a company teetering on the edge of collapse.
    I never used one and quite glad I didn't (although I was a wee bit tempted when the Z10 came out). But it was (possibly still is) a popular device in the emerging and third world markets. BBs never cracked it big enough in first world economies and that's possibly where their demise began.

    Quote Originally Posted by markface View Post
    Only really in SA imo. Its funny because SA's one of the only places that BBM and this 'low cost internet' was a pull feature. BB is pretty much a business phone elsewhere.
    Always amazing me too though, I never understood it. Horrible small keyboards, small screens, and pretty terrible reliability. If I has R10 for every facebook news feed post, "MY BB died, I have a new one, pin: XXXXX, add me pls!", I'd be a rich man.
    I think the nature of the beast is that it would be popular in many economies like ours where the cost of internet is prohibitive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by markface View Post
    Only really in SA imo. Its funny because SA's one of the only places that BBM and this 'low cost internet' was a pull feature. BB is pretty much a business phone elsewhere.
    Always amazing me too though, I never understood it. Horrible small keyboards, small screens, and pretty terrible reliability. If I has R10 for every facebook news feed post, "MY BB died, I have a new one, pin: XXXXX, add me pls!", I'd be a rich man.
    citation needed. Dude my 8520 fell in the toilet fully submerged twice! and I vomitted on it full seepage and I somehow managed to resuscitate it. Not to mention dropping it on solid concrete a few times. It's like the 21st century 3310.
    That's just like, your opinion, man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edelweiss View Post
    citation needed. Dude my 8520 fell in the toilet fully submerged twice! and I vomitted on it full seepage and I somehow managed to resuscitate it. Not to mention dropping it on solid concrete a few times. It's like the 21st century 3310.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edelweiss View Post
    citation needed. Dude my 8520 fell in the toilet fully submerged twice! and I vomitted on it full seepage and I somehow managed to resuscitate it. Not to mention dropping it on solid concrete a few times. It's like the 21st century 3310.
    Ja that phone would not come near my hands, never mind my face
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ike_009 View Post
    Ja that phone would not come near my hands, never mind my face
    Why would it ever? It's mine lol.
    That's just like, your opinion, man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edelweiss View Post
    citation needed. Dude my 8520 fell in the toilet fully submerged twice! and I vomitted on it full seepage and I somehow managed to resuscitate it. Not to mention dropping it on solid concrete a few times. It's like the 21st century 3310.
    My facebook feed dude. Haha

    Seriously though, virtually all my friends have been through multiple BB phones.

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    well to bad guess they could not keep up... But the war of Apple and samsung will become bigger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ike_009 View Post
    Ja that phone would not come near my hands, never mind my face
    Almost spued coffee all over my phone

    Quote Originally Posted by z1oc View Post
    well to bad guess they could not keep up... But the war of Apple and samsung will become bigger.
    This what I have been debating in other threads. It isn't healthy for competition or how do you guys see it? Can Microsoft get their act together with Nokia?

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