BlackBerry Thunder's new OS pictured? Maybe not.
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted July 7th 2008 7:21PM
posted July 7th 2008 7:21PM
[Via MobileSyrup]
posted July 7th 2008 7:21PM
A look back on popular stories from today in a specific year.
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
Okay folks, we are at a neutral site, what will it be a BB touchscreen phone or an Apple touchscreen phone?
if you think this site is neutral, please do a search for Iphone
Wow.
I'd ask you to get a summer job so that you'd have something useful to do, but that would be too cruel to the poor saps who'd hire you.
Sorry, was responding to clak just above.
Now RIM has joined the "me too"/"iclone"/"cheap knockoff" crowd. Innovation has truly stagnated within this industry. Reflecting the same sad affairs within the Windows world. It's has been echoed throughout the tech industry that without Apple, innovation would truly be dead. The only innovation these "me too" companies can do on their own is how to monopolize their market without going to jail.
You don't seem to realize that 90% of iPhone 2.0's new features are lifted directly from the BlackBerry. So who's copying from whom? A large part of the WWDC keynote was like watching a BlackBerry demo, (yet stuff like push-IM is still missing).
So you have Apple trying to expand into the corporate market by copying the BlackBerry (a wise choice) and you have RIM trying to expand into the comsumer markey by copying the iPhone (also a wise choice).
Unfortunately for Apple, they must rely on Microsoft's Activesync to provide the iPhone's BlackBerry-like features, technology which isn't very robust or efficient and has so far done little to take away market share from RIM.
Denial, the first sign of failure. Trying to make a product irrelevant by associating similarities of a previous product, second sign of failure. You basically ignored the main points of why RIM is cloning the iPhone. Another sign of denial equating to failure. Three strikes means your hopeless in understanding why BB is doing nothing but "me too" for their new products and cloning as much aspects of the iPhone as legally possible. How sad...
@Jubei: So Blackberry making a new phone with an emphasis on multimedia and touchscreen instantly makes it a "me too" product? You act as if Apple was the first and only company to do that. Of course there were others that have, just not as successfully and as smoothly as the iPhone. Apple is just good at prettying up a UI with fancy icons and transitions. Of course, now phone makers are finally getting the idea of better mobile usability in their heads and are reacting by offering their own ways of making multimedia and touch interfaces a part of their mobile phones.
Competition is good. Apple shouldn't be the only company to offer a smooth multimedia/touchscreen interface-styled phone for consumers. There can be many others, and maybe one of them could actually go above and beyond the iPhone.
Apple makes tons of "me too" products if you didn't notice. Take for instance iWork, Apple TV, Mobile Me, Safari, MacBook Pro to name a few. Guess that must make Apple a bad company if you hate "me too" products a lot.
Well look here. QB is actually defending another product. Has your faith in the Zune wavered to the point that you are now championing another "me too" company? Another typical ploy or re-directing a subject to try and manipulate the topic away from the original point. Nice ploy QB, but your argument is moot. The iPhone is a new platform, new product. Grasps at the little straws that you can dig to argue similarities, but call it as it is. BB copied, cloned, imitated and are a bunch of hypocrites for creating such a product.
@Jubei,
I kinda like you for many reasons; we both have a love of
i) Apple
ii) the English language - though you are just learning the language and I am a God.
But you are really quite wrong about the iPhone. The iPhone is quite clearly a clone of the Dell X50v. Just look at them:
1. Full Glass Front
2. Silver side casing
3. Touch screen
4. Power adaptor
5. MP3 music player.
6. Bluetooth
It is identical. Admittedly Sir Jobs did copy the actual phone functionality from Samsung. (Samsung was the original inventory of the telephone (patent pending)).
I think that you will admit that I am right.
@kccboy2004
Sigh, another "boy" who immediately proclaims superiority before making his/hers points.
In truth, your post is quite ludicrous. The full glass front of the iPhone is a diamond dust coated optical quality glass. Much like your expensive optical eye glasses. That is why its scratch resistant and very smooth to the touch. That's true innovation for such a product. The rest of your list is just plain silly. It's a basic list of standard used by just about every manufacturer. Learn to understand the difference before you declare yourself a deity of foolishness.
Without a hepatic touchscreen it's shit - Instinct fools
Hello Sprint/Samsung fanboy.
The Instinct's touch screen is controlled by your liver?
Ew. No thank you.
Damn you got me Heptic makes much more sense
Courtesy of Urban Dictionary:
heptic
a spinoff on the word hectic but a lazier chilled alternative
...so you're saying the touchscreen of the Instinct is a lazy but busy at the same time? Hmm..sounds like it's a vibrator to me..
looks pretty good, but for some reason the blue tinge at the bottom of the interface bothers me.
Is it because you're autistic?
Sorry, that was just lame.
I don't understand how these are iPhone clones. This phone looks more like every other touch screen phone smart phone or PDA that has come out in the last 10 years...
Actually, I think they've done an excellent job of giving us an original, sexy design. It's a phone in a tuxedo.
Are you 'clak'?
@ Ocean (im not 'clak')
You're an oyster.
Hahaha, nobody even noticed how nonsensical my insult was!
I have a BB Curve on Verizon atm.
Here is what I hope this phone turns out to be.
-At least 3.5 inch touchscreen
-At least Opera Mini as a browser
- Flawless integrated UI for the touchscreen
- Usual BB stuff everyone expects
- No more than $250 before rebate w/ 2 year contract
If RIM somehow makes all that happen, I am getting one.
I have a BB Curve on Verizon atm.
Here is what I hope this phone turns out to be.
-At least 3.5 inch touchscreen
-At least Opera Mini as a browser
- Flawless integrated UI for the touchscreen
- Usual BB stuff everyone expects
- No more than $250 before rebate w/ 2 year contract
If RIM somehow makes all that happen, I am getting one.
Of course I hope you realize that OS X is the best operating system in the world and Steve Jobs is a God to everyone. The iPhone is of course a masterpiece to everything Holy in this world of unholy-Microsoft products and ugly knockoffs of iMac's and MacBooks. Do you concur..cla...um..Ocean? :D
Shoot..reply system has failed me :(
You have failed the reply system.
As a photographer I can categorically say that this is a "render". It would be impossible to light the phone in portrait and landscape mode in exactly the same way with the highlights falling in exactly the same places.
Hmmmm... Good observation...
Hm...there's something wrong here, I can't see "clak"s comments, but I can see that people are replying to him.
What gives?
Deleted!
Surprised?
Actually, he's "Ocean (im not 'clak')."