Black Berry has been out of the phone market since ever the androids and the iPhones got released. The old Black Berries are only a single digit percentage in the smart phone market. What is Black Berry doing? They now have released the Black Berry 10 which had a really long delay and has many interesting new features that will grab many people's attentions. It has a 4.2 inch touch screen which has a way high quality than the iPhone's screen. The new Black Berry has also the ability to switch batteries rather than having a built in battery that is not switchable. It also has many other different features that are interesting such as the smart typing system, a voice recognizing system that is similar to Siri from the iPhone. This Black Berry also has a secured platform for work phones that people in a office always link with each other. The new Black Berry has this "long invisible Ethernet cable". They also introduces the QNX, it is an operating system that allows you to connect or disconnect remote access, it has quite a few disadvantages such as the memory back up. Black Berry is doing pretty good in introducing this new technology. Overall I think that this phone is very interesting, who has many new features that the other smart phones don't have I think that the market of the Black Berry Phones will increase again, and it might even be able to compete with androids and the IOS.
Major Concepts
- Black Berry's phone market percentage has really drop to a single digit in, over the past few years Black Berry still has not introduce a phone that is really that smart, or beneficial.
- They finally release the Black Berry 10 which has many key important new features that other smart phones does not have. A better screen, typing tool, (Ethernet Cable), etc.
- The QNX or the neat operating system in this Black Berry is able ling you to connect your phone with your PC in a very responsive way which has a few disadvantages.
Potential Strengths/Advantages
The author had many different strengths in this article such as a sub heading that divides the information up into different person's ideas linking many articles together. I find it really good that each person he has there is a little summary of the article the author wrote and he has a button that says "More", so we are able to read the full article. I like his ideas where in the last paragraph he has his own thoughts about the phone and why should you buy it or not, which gives us an head start on the phone, from a normal person's point of view.
Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages
The author had one main disadvantage, I think that in some paragraphs he used words that he didn't explain such as the QNX, which I needed to do research on what it is to be able to understand the point this author is making. I find it really hard to read the article when there are words that I have never known off. If he explained some complex words this article would be perfect.
Discussion Questions
I would like to discuss with the class that, how is this phone going to affect the market of the smart phones, because I think that this phone has many different features that seems to be better than an iPhone and I think that it is really interesting to know other peoples thoughts about the phone. I didn't understand clearly what the QNX really is because the definition is not that clear, so I want to know what it really means.
Jennings, Richi. "BlackBerry BB10 Review Watch: Wow, That's Unexpected!" Computerworld. N.p., 01 Feb. 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2013.
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