Vertu still re-badges other people's phones and wraps them in 'luxury' materials but I see they are no longer part of Nokia.
Vertu Official Website | Vertu
Very British? Isn't their main office somewhere in Quarry Bay?
Vertu still re-badges other people's phones and wraps them in 'luxury' materials but I see they are no longer part of Nokia.
Vertu Official Website | Vertu
Very British? Isn't their main office somewhere in Quarry Bay?
There is a hotel that Foxconn use for all its customers for wearable devices. It is quite interesting in the business lounge with a table of Apple staff another with FitBit right next to the guys from Microsoft who are chatting to the next table full of Nike staff.
The hardware tech really is the same, just the wrapping and software make the big difference.
Given that an Android phone is reaching as low as $24 ex-factory prices from Shenzhen why would big brands try to compete at the mass market end with mediocre products - Like most of Microsoft's range for the last 4 years.
This is sad. Do you know if the BB brand of phones will continue to be made (but overseen by a third party manufacturer) or something like that?
I still have my BB Priv, coming from the Samsung Note 2 before that and I didn't miss a beat on the transition. There were some interesting new features introduced to me instead.
This I can't understand. We moved to BB once for a couple of years and they were crap. Mail was shite, opening attachments was a gamble (always had to download and view on my personal iPhone) never used BBM as no one else had it and hardware started to crap out after a year. We dumped BB and replaced all once the 2 year contract was up. To me BB was nothing but a pain we were glad to be relieved from.
What about the new DKTEK ones or whatever they are called? Got decent reviews.
Looking at Blackberry earnings report, it seems focusing on software and services was the right thing to do
Plus 1 for Blackberry
Terrible smartphone for those that like to consume or share banality
Awesome email phone for those that liked to create
At this point they have basically licensed/sold their name to TCL/Alcatel for hardware purposes - what they're doing is pretty much making BB editions of existing phones, so pretty generic hardware with BB's Android software on them. Doesn't sound massively promising, but I know of at least one fairly hardcore Android writer who is very impressed, and I'm not all that surprised, since I've always thought BB should have been in the secure/enterprise Android software business, not the cutthroat low-margin (except for Apple) hardware biz.
I'd be willing to put, oh, $100 down that there won't be another hardware-keyboard BB phone for a very long time, however...