BlackBerry

>>57174525
It can run apk files iirc.

>>57174540
it has amazons android appstore and googles play store natively

>>57174525
Definitely, BB10OS phones are the best on the market.

>>57174525
It is always worth to get bb, just gotta figure which one is right for you

>>57174555
>>57174600
don't listen to these ebin pranksters, blackberry and its os are both dead

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>>57174623
Fuck off, moron. BB10OS has at least one more update coming and there may even be more BB10OS phones coming out. Even as it stands currently it's the best mobile OS and will likely remain so for years to come. With that fact plus the fact that BlackBerries are basically the only modern keyboard phones on the market, the Q10, Classic, and Passport are undeniably the three best phones one could possibly buy.

>>57174647
simply ebin
literally no reason not to wait for the mercury

>>57174708
>doesn't run BB10OS
Dropped.

>>57174728
BB10 IS DEAD
NO SUPPORT
NO UPDATES
DEAD.

also what supposedly makes it so good, huh??

>>57174748
See >>57174647
>Even as it stands currently it's the best mobile OS and will likely remain so for years to come
Christ, are you fucking 12?


>also what supposedly makes it so good, huh??
You've never even used it and yet you bash it repeatedly. Confirmed 12 year old. Why discuss things you know nothing about? Put your phone away and pay attention to class, faggot. Whatever your middle school teacher's saying will probably be on the next test.

>>57174786
>still doesn't say what apparently makes it good

>>57174786
>>57174647
bb shills on unpaid overtime apparently

>fluent gesture based UI
>BlackBerry Hub
>may be lacking with BB10OS apps but can run Android apps
>never laggy
It's just an all around great mobile OS and a joy to use. Android and iOS are both ass in comparison to this god-tier OS.

>>57174846
>everyone who likes what I don't is a shill
epik meme

>>57174883
top part was for the middle schooler >>57174825

>>57174883
well shilled rajesh!

>>57174896
Quit shitposting.

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>tfw I started shilling bbos out of no where
>tfw done it consistently cuz its fun
>tfw it starts to catch on
>tfw new thread every day

BB10 doesnt even have support from WhatsApp

>>57174960
It can run the Android app.

>>57174918
Quit shilling

>>57174986
I never started. OP asked my opinion and I gave him my opinion. If that makes you so assblasted I suggest you close and hide this thread.

OP here
will i regret it if i buy the silver version for £280 RIGHT NOW?
sick and tired of android, dont like iphone
really enjoy physical keyboards

>>57175007
Close and hide the thread rajesh

>>57175026
forgot to add, how future-proof is it? how long would it last me?

>>57175026
£280 seems a little steep but if it's the cheapest you can find it for it's worth it.

>>57175039
Eat a dick.

>>57175060
cheapest is £220 but thats from a super dodgy website
£280 is from the official blackberry site

>>57175079
Go for it

>>57175094
what do you think about the upcoming blackberry mercury?
would that be worth waiting for perhaps?

>>57175058
look at what you currently use app wise, figure out what's essential. If there isn't a bbos10 equivalent that will appear to be maintained, then don't bother

>>57175118
I hope it's just the Passport form factor running android. That's all I want.

>>57175118
Only consider it if you're good with dealing with Android.

>>57175128
>implying BB10OS can't run Android apps

>>57175128
but i thought that it has android apps >>57174967
>>57174548

>>57175159
It does

>>57175140
>>57175159
it's slow software emulation of android 2.3. The apps perform like shit and look like shit, clashing with the rest of the OS.

>>57175221
Quit making shit up, you fucking moron.

>>57175230
behold the power of the android compatibility layer

https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/85179/?lang=en&countrycode=US

>>57175275
>cherrypicking one shitty app
Wow anon you sure proved me wrong. Doesn't change the fact that you were blatantly lying.

>>57175230
http://www.zdnet.com/article/blackberry-10-a-better-android-than-android/

>"It should be noted that BlackBerry's Android 2.3.3 API implementation already has a number of other programmatic limitations in addition to the NDK."

>>57174525
>Is BB10 completely dead?
Yes

t. Q10 user

>>57175314
the blackberry android developer API support page still references jelly bean as an unsupported API. that's how abandoned and shitty that compatibility layer is.

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>>57175324
>>57175369
BB10OS's Android compatibility layer is 4.3.

>>57175382
congrats on having support for a 4 year old mobile OS release. i'm sure it all works just fine.

>>57175407
Everything I've needed works perfectly.

>>57175413
what do you use
what's your usage like

>>57175453
PayPal
My Bluebird
Shipping trackers
Pizza Hut app

Those are the only apps I use regularly. It's harder to find apps that don't work than ones that do, at least in my experience.
>inb4 lol but you don't use your phone for anything
I've had a metric buttload of different Android apps installed since I've gotten this phone.

Are the classic and q10 worth a dime anymore

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bump

>buying something which is basically EOL

Why would anyone with a sane mind do this?

>>57175889
Yes, I'd say that although the specs are worse they're both better than the Passport.

>>57176205
Because even if it's dying it's still the best.

>>57176222
Can you qualify why they're the best with technical reasons or is it all personal opinion

>>57176222
what makes them better than the passport?

>>57176307
likely the form factor

>>57176239
See >>57174883

>>57176307
They both have better keyboards, Q10's got a removable battery, and the Classic's got the toolbelt.

>>57176502
but battery is much better in passport, no?
is android app support the same for all of them?

>>57176761
I don't know what the Passport gets for battery life but I get 2-3 days with my Q10 and they all run the same BB10OS versions so Android support is the same.

Its very simple people. If you need a communications device with a little more security than Android or iOS you get a Blackberry (non Android). If you want a toy you get an Android or iOS device. No one has a Blackberry for it's apps. I have a Classic and it's used for business not for Candy Crush Saga or dick pics, that's what my iPad is for.

>>57176801
56th post best post

>>57174647
bb4lyfe my friend. the classic is my daily driver, and i have an unopened q10 as my backup if anything happens to that phone. bb10 os is the most fluid, featureful, and stable mobile platform i've ever seen. puts ios and android to total shame. typing is such a breeze on these things, and it would take at-least a dozen third party apps under android or ios to reach feature parity with bb10.

w2c cheap blackberry classic in UK???

>>57177032
just order them unlocked on amazon. if you want new, the classics are going for between 250 and 300 us dollars. the q10 is going for between 125 and 175 us dollars.

if you want used, you'll save a shit ton more cash. the passports are also going for cheap as well, new or used.

>BB goes bankrupt
>Nothing of value left
>BBOS Source Code bought by the ex-engineers for a dollar
>They release it as FOSS
>FOSS community goes batshit and further hardens it
>Existing manufacturer's too busy with botnet phones to notice
>Meanwhile at Nokia, finnish engineers are as usual fucking around with FOSS projects instead of actually working
>Nokia releases first phone with BBOS[OS]
>Govt/Enterprise grade customers lap that shit up
>Nokia actually turns a profit
>Purchases BB as a goodwill

2017: Year of glorious Finnish-Canadian domination

>>57174525


IIRC WhatsApp is stopping to work literally in abour 3 months or so on BB10, which is extremely gay and makes the phone irrelevant

Shame as I fucking hate typing on a shitty glass screen so much.

>>57177406
see >>57174967

>>57175505

can you use google services?

>>57174525

I still have my Q10 and I do like some parts of it better. Sadly it is outdated but I'd love a full-touch bb10 phone with current-gen specs.

I'm pretty biased as I was a BB10 app developer and got a handful of phones for free...

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>>57177360
i am screenshotting this

>>57177360
>the phone is a successor to the n900

Please don't play with my heart anon.

>>57177475

how reliable is that though senpai

side loading, i might miss messages because it's acting up, and whatnot

>>57177650
no idea desu, i'm not the guy who initially posted it :^)

>>57177669

well from experience, i had the Q10 and IIRC, there wasn't a BB native app for a bank, so I used the android sideloaded one, but I wasn't getting notification pop ups.

Annoying.

>>57177701
damn shame if that were to happen with whatsapp
will facebook messenger also be discontinued? what about telegram?

>>57177837
no idea m8

>>57177837

Facebook own Whatsapp
Facebook have billions.
You could maintain a BB Whatsapp with a team of three developers.

Clearly there is some shit going on behind the scenes, someone doesn't llike WhatsApp, or Apple are leaning on FB somehow.

>Attached is the updated project document that we can use during our conference call, homo

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>>57176801
this. I only have clover pintrest chase twitter and a couple random apps on my classic. Extremely comfy

>>57177486
Unofficially. BB can't actually release Play Services for BB10OS because Google only allows Android devices to be shipped with it.

get one OP

Best phone I've ever owned.

BBOS10 update coming very soon according to blackberry's twitter.

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I bought a Passport a few days back to replace my flipphone

it's quite good so far. might get a microsd.

>>57176801
RIM happily gave (gives?) access to BBM data to middle eastern shitholes. Fuck them.

I now trust Apple more re. security actually. There are only two ways to compromise a modern iThing (assuming the 8-hour deadline for Touch ID has passed):

* Prepare an Apple-signed update to the SEP's firmware that disables passcode attempt rate limiting. Needs you to be in a position to coerce Apple, and they have publicly refused to do something similar for the San Bernardino attacker's phone (which didn't have a SEP).

* Decap the CPU and try to physically extract the SEP's key. This would be incredibly difficult and failure would permanently destroy the key.

You can avoid both of those by turning on Complex Passcode and choosing something better than a 6-digit PIN, something that can't be bruteforced. You'll rarely have to actually enter it since you would mostly be using Touch ID.

>>57177360
This scenario is my wet dream, but it will never happen because of patents. The kernel (QNX) also has commercial value outside of BB10.

>>57180860
QNX isn't BB10OS's kernel, it's the base OS, like Darwin is to OS X.

>>57180903
Whoops, sorry. Not sure why it stuck with me that it's the kernel.

All I want is an Android Passport

Why won't it happen+

>>57181319
Why would you want a Passport worse than the current one?

Opinions on the priv?

>>57181372
I heard the build quality's not the best and that it has overheating issues. If those weren't problems and it ran BB10OS I'd consider it.

>>57181328

not a dead platform for a start

>>57181413
BB10OS may be a dying platform but it's still the better platform.

>>57176761
The battery in the passport is bigger but it's really badly optimized or the screen is a battery hog idk

>>57181426

but it wont be in 4 months, shut the fuck up faggot

>have had my Q10 for over a year
>suddenly today it starts flashing an AT&T logo every time I turn it on or off
What the fuck?

>>57181515
It will be for years.

>>57181517
Same thing started happening with my Q10 when I did an OTA update, but instead of AT&T it's T-Mobile

>>57181555
I haven't updated my phone in months though

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My 4 year old iPhone 5s is finally dead, I can get a Q5 for $75, should I fall for the BB meme?

The only app I NEED that isn't standard on blackberry is snapchat, can you sideload it in a way that won't get my account banned?

>>57181566
I've heard that using Snapchat on BB10OS can get you banned but I'm not 100% positive.

>>57181562
it actually does automatic updates

>>57181592
Can you sideload the official snapchat and log in etc successfully?
If you're using a third party snapchat client you're getting banned in less than a month no question

>>57181621
Yet I'm running BB10OS 10.3.2.556, which came out over a year ago. A software update was definitely not what caused this.

>>57181626
You can use official Snapchat just fine, I heard the issue is that it reports as BB10OS and if the Android app is on something that's not Android it can get you banned. Like I said though, no clue how true it is.

>>57181566
>q5

Don't, pay the extra couple dollars for a q10

>>57181746
>extra couple dollars
$75 vs $150
literally twice the price for a temporary phone, i'd get a dumbphone but i need email etc. and $75 androids are shit

>>57181791
I just did a quick search and found a bunch of used Q10s for less than you're paying for the Q5.

>>57181566
>Q5
Jesus fuck don't
Get Q10 instead
Q10 has far better keyboard than Q5 and the digitizers on Q5 are randomly killing themselves

>>57174525
I used a passport as a second phone for about a year,

size was a little too big for my taste, and I couldn't use snapchat, but it was god tier for email, texting, holding a signal in a low signal area, and battery life. the battery on that thing was amazing.

BB10 was actually a good os too, shame it never caught on

>>57182808
>size was a little too big for my taste

Manlet. Kys.

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anybody here have a Sennheiser HD518 / Passport combo?

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my advice is to get a blackberry q10 and try it out. once you get used to the OS there's no going back to android/ios.
just got my passport SE today. it exudes quality. the touch sensitive keyboard makes up for the fact that it's three-row instead of four-row. still not sure if it's better than my q10, but it sure is different. coworkers just got their iphones 7 and sure were jealous :^)

Turning the screen 90 degrees and scrolling with touch keyboard vertically is top comfy in web browser. Also being able to move the cursor without moving from the keyboard is excellent.

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>>57184063

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>tfw you can mobile post without the "image.jpg"

>>57184089
I didnt know you could view it on horizontal mode.

>>57183751
Passport and earpods combo. Hate all in-ear buds and as far as ear buds go the earpods are pretty decent.
Usually listen to phone music while biking/walking anyway so quality isn't as big of a deal.

>>57174525
Can I program on that device? It appears to have a good screen ratio and keyboard. Please advise.

>>57184433
earpods are GOAT $10 and under earbuds
good sound for the price, great sweat resistance and super light
paying what apple asks for them is dumb tho

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Ah, and GBA emulation on BB is fantastic. Super smooth and keyboard is as close to real buttons as it gets on a phone. Don't need whatever meme game app is popular this week, got decades of excellent games with RetroArch.

>>57184455
Essays and emails are easy on this, but symbol-heavy stuff is better on the Q10, as it has the dedicated symbol key making all the various syntax stuff less painful. General SSH admining is great with JuiceSSH app though.

>>57184502
Oh yeah. My family has tons of them from upgrading to the latest iPhone every few years. I just dig through the junk drawer for the newest pair lol

>>57184502
Now that I think about it, the 3.5mm earpods are actually out of production, seeing as apple switched to lightning. May be time to hoard a few pairs.

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>Buy used BB Q10 for $100
>Anti-theft protection was on
>Previous owner "forgot" the BB ID login and is no longer responding to my mail so I can't get a refund
>BB Support told me to fuck off since I don't have a proof of purchase and won't unlock it

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Ayy

You cunts got any Passport papes?

>>57184748
you should be able to use an "autoloader" for an older os version before anti-theft was introduced (10.3.0 I think?, check crackberry forums) to bypass the anti-theft. Search google, it's not very complicated. It's not like apple's icloud lock.

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The only deal breaker for me with the BB10 OS is that you cannot set the MCC and MNC, which is required to be set manually to even connect to my carrier provider.

Also Q5 is very easy to repair, compared to Q10 where you have to completely take it apart and the requirement of using T2 torx screwdriver if you want to replace any component

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r8 this lockscreen

>>57184957
dark shade +2
12-hour clock -1
not that BB users look at the lock screen for more than .5 seconds anyway

>>57184806
Yeah, I used autoloader for version 10.3.1.997 but it's missing a fuckton of stuff and I'm unable to do OTA update because it says it doesn't have enough space and blackberry link update always fails
When I use autoloader to update to latest version, it asks for the BB ID again

>>57185351
Did you try a security wipe and then autoloader a recent OS? Not sure how anti-theft works as I've been lucky with my Q10.
I flashed the latest 10.3.0 before they released the 10.3.1 and it worked pretty well. 10.3.1.997 might be a dev build missing a lot of stuff, maybe try the latest 10.3.0 if you can't get anti-theft reset.

>>57185528
yeah it's a dev build and I already tried security wipe, didn't help.
Also for some reason sachesi keeps failing to flash any bar files and I can't even do soft update with it, since it keeps failing trying to flash different downloaded versions of qc8960.factory_sfi-10.3.2.2789-nto+armle-v7+signed.bar from the BB servers

are 200gb microsd cards compatible with the BB Passport?

>>57174525

No, you idiot. Blackberry is dead. Can't you take a hint?

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I'd use it as a daily driver if there was a way to play Ingress without getting banned

>>57185589
Here's all the latest versions of 10.3.0:
https mega nz/#F!fA0URRLL!P-4nDqc5JWTVRg8fv5LyhA!TM1zAa5Y
It's a self contained flasher program, no Sachesi. It'll wipe out whatever's on the phone so you don't need to mess with individual .bar files.

>>57185591
Yeah people on Crackberry report success with up to 256GB so far.

>>57185732
Autoloader is failing to flash it

"Error: This OS version is blocked from device."

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any good games I can play on the Passport?

>>57185591
bb10 supports exfat so you can have up to 128 PiB if you so choose

>>57185709
what kind of stupid cunt plays ingress (or pokemon go)?

>>57184580
WHoa this is game changing, I'm thinking of picking one of these up because almost all of what I do with my phone is just listen to podcasts on youtube and browse 4 chan. I hate digital keyboards and I hate smartphone games. But if i could emulate old GBA games that's be fucking tight.

>>57185841
Never got that before, weird. At this point probably start searching Crackberry or something. Sometimes dev versions block downgrading (happens now with 10.3.3 dev versions), but apart from that have no idea

>>57185861
For some reason every release of RetroArch for BB10 has problems with keybindings. This .bar has the correct settings for the Passport's keyboard: https://github.com/lynnard/RetroArch/releases/tag/bb10-10210
For good GBA video like in the picture you'll need to change video scaling to 3:2 and shader option to "nearest" in the options.

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>>57186048
Ingress is played by the kind of guy who can afford it

Pokè monGo only Kids

I have Q10 and for some reason Skype burns through the battery like a motherfucker and I can't close it

How the fuck do I kill it?

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>>57186874
Close skype, go to hub. Click on skype, go to the option, stop app

>>57187992
thanks

>>57185620
They may be dying but their phones are still the best.

I wouldn't. Development for it is next to dead. Yes you can sideload apks using an old, limited version of the android sdk but its not worth it. Buy one of their android phones if anything. My work used to be such a large BB partner but over the years we've entirely ditched them, all the strange bugs with BB10 were the last straw. IMO the solution to a device not syncing over data should never be reformatting it.

I used one for over a year. Best phone I've had for generic browsing. Still bring it on flights for reading ebooks/pdfs. And the battery just doesn't fucking die. Solid as a brick.

Have a priv now as my daily, though.

the passport is indisputably the best smartphone ever

t. Not a shill

>>57190706
Prove both claims

If someone could find me a Classic from a legit site for under £200 I'd buy that cunt in a heartbeat...

>>57175026
silver edition looks dope, but I have the normal one
it's a good phone. I never used a ton of apps on my iphone (i had a 6, switched to Passport)

>>57184580
which emulator are you using

>>57191649
when did you make the switch?

>>57191558
>£200
here ya go:
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00OHW7YKQ/
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00RD3WB0E/

for that price though, they're all used or refurbished. your next best bet is a q10, which definitely meets your price point even when unopened and new.

>Priv comes out
>too expensive
>wait a year for the price to drop
>it's still 400-500€ used

>>57184089
This is pretty nice senpai.

I absolutely need an Android app for work, so I'm thinking about getting the priv. Is the Android implementation of blackberry any good?

>>57189324
How does the priv compare feature wise?

>>57174525
I'm also really interested about this.
I used to have a Bold in the past and I loved it. I've been using a Samsung S4 for 3 years but honestly I think that BB OS was a much better system and BB's physical keyboard was excellent.
I can get a BB Classic for 340€, do you think that it's worthy?

>>57184089
Moar like this, please. I want to know how is like to read a book on it.

>>57184089

Can it run snapchat? How is the quality of the pictures it takes?

How is the battery life of blackberry passport?

I can get a new white passport for 340€. Is it good?

>>57193308
Second this request

I thought Blackberry was the last remaining J2ME phone? Are my dreams of playing Destroy All Humans Mobile and slow vNES roms on the train over?

>>57193574
You can still get those BB devices, but the new ones run an OS called BlackBerry 10, which is based on QNX (another Unix-like OS, but real-time, and specifically engineered for embedded and mobile devices). It is comparable to iOS and Android (and sports a compatibility layer for the latter).

>>57191692
RetroArch. See >>57186237

>>57193507
An hour of listening to music with Bluetooth headphones while emulating GBA took 7%. If you tune your Android apps right (no background Android apps while you're not actively running one) battery lasts days.

>>57192502
I meant for a new one, of course

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Is q10 the only one with a removable battery or does passport too? I know Classic doesn't.

>>57194297
Q10 is the only BB10 device with a keyboard that has an easily removable battery, yah.

Passport users, is it really as massive as everyone says? Are you able to fit it into your trouser pockets? What do you do in the summer?

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>>57194333

after support for BB10 is completely dropped by all official parties, how much support from a user/modder community is there?

>>57194767
BB10 is very locked down. They'd have to release source.

q10 for £160
classic for £250
passport for £290

which one should i go for

>>57193533
That's quite a bit, I've been looking at Passports for ~$210

>>57194767
I mean, noone's entirely sure they're going to totally drop support for BB10 while they're still a functioning corporation. It's just that we're not likely to see many new features or updates to the android run-time (for the time being at-least). There is an update in the works, but it's probably going to be security and enterprise-centric. Currently, and for another year or two (maybe more) most android apps run fine, there are a bunch of really good apps in the blackberry appworld store for free and pay that cover a lot of productivity and Web needs, and the OS itself is feature-packed and smooth as butter.

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>>57193248
I went to the Priv after holding out for years on my Z10. The Blackberry implementation of Android is very good, and it's something I wish more manufacturers would do: just give us stock Android, with a few unique features we can turn off should we not want them (eg, the battery meter and that side bar thing). The "secure Android" thing is a bit of a meme, and when Blackberry eventually drops support the phone will basically become worthless, but otherwise it's very competent, very responsive, well-made and probably one of the few modern smartphones to have a truly interesting and unique design.

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Anybody has tried to install microG GmsCore onto BB10 yet?
It's basically FOSS alternative to Google Play Services

>>57195837
see the comments here:
https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/issues/105

and this thread:
http://forums.crackberry.com/android-apps-amazon-store-apk-files-f413/how-patch-android-apps-depending-google-maps-google-play-services-914930/

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>>57186461
>afford ingress
going around like a retard collecting gps data for a company with a """free""" game


Are you serious?

>>57184957
Link to gorgeous background pls

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>>57174647
>There will never again be a mobile phone with a toolbelt

>>57196747
What does the tool belt do?

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>>57197210
Provides call, end, back, and menu buttons along with a trackpad

So what is it about bbos10 that makes it so good for productivity?

>>57197309
No bullshit, no lag, straightforward and fluent UI, it's the bee's knees

>>57197309
hub

>>57197309
It's not messy. The entire OS is designed to do phone and communication things- emails, texts, phone calls.

Too bad it's essentially dead. I just got switched to android. Their phones were also top-tier quality. Now they're outsourcing and working off android.

You can get the virtual keyoard and the hub on android too, not as good though.

>>57198697
And the hub's just an app on Android, it's integrated with the OS in BB10OS

>>57198710
Yes. The biggest thing is that in android you get functionality by fucking around with third party apps and work-arounds to an OS that's pretty shitty to use as a phone. BB10 everything is just there.

It took me about a year to get used to the fact that you just don't need any apps to do shit on a blackberry. They just fucking work.

if you need netflix, snapchat, or some other botnet app you won't like bb10. If you want a phone that's the epitome of personal communication and getting shit done get bb10.

The only downside is starting a call can be fucking laggy as shit(2-3 second annoying delay sometimes) on bb10 because there's a bug in the code BB hasn't fixed in the last update.

>>57198710
Also as a workaround I got something called home launcher off F-droid. It turns the home button into a swipe-up mini appdrawer you can use in any app. Gives you proto-hub peek.

>>57198760
but you need root for that right?

>>57198747
Snapchat can be pretty useful. I was a virgin until the age of 24, used Blackberry devices all my life. Then I bought a Nexus 6P, got Snapchat, sent insipid shit to girls I knew and was laid within 4 months.

It might lag like a piece of shit on Android and is big time botnet, but Snapchat is good in my books. It was almost worth abandoning BBOS 10 for it.

>>57198842
Nope. my phone's stock and it works.

>>57198848
No idea then senpai. I never saw the need for snapchat myself but I never had a problem being virgin. Glad to hear it helped.

>>57198842
A lot of F-droid is actually very stock friendly. I generally go to it before I look for anything on play store.

>>57199026
me too, but certain apps need root and I figured if it changes how your swipe gesture works and changes the google search for that maybe it needs root.

So which cross-platform instant messaging app should be used on BB10 if WhatsApp and Facebook won't work?

> can't find a BB Classic for less than 330€ here
> white Passport is 340€
Kill me right now

>>57201321
iktf senpai, same here in the UK

>>57201058
Well, Telegram works pretty well with my Q10 and patched Discord works also without voice

>>57201359
I miss the glorious tool belt of my old BB Bold. Having to swipe the finger on the screen in order to answer to a call is just retarded.
Plus the physical keyboard is way much better than any touchscreen keyboard around.

>>57201392
is there a native telegram app?

>>57201416
There are unofficial clients but the android app works without a single hickup
https://telegram.org/blog/bb-results

>>57201468
neat

which of the current blackberry phones is the most future-proof and would last me the longest
also in terms of construction etc
my past few smartphones have all lasted just around a year, for once i'd like something that would actually last a while

I can get an unlocked Passport for 241€, new. What's the difference betwene locked and unlocked btw?

>>57202163
Locked means you can only use it on carriers it's locked to. For example my Q10's locked to AT&T so I can only use it on AT&T's network along with NVMOs that use AT&T such as Net10 but can't use it on a carrier like T-Mobile. They also normally have branding for whatever carrier they're locked to. An unlocked phone works on any carrier its hardware supports. You can unlock a locked phone, but it's like ~$30 for the unlock code.

>>57202190
Ok I see. Then unlocked shoulder be better.

I don't know anything about blackberries, from where can you get banned for sideloading and why?

>>57201509
Q10 for the replaceable battery
Passport for the performance

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Having wolfram alpha built into your phone's OS is fug'n awesome BTW.

>>57206140
every single modern mobile assistant searches wolfram alpha?