basically we are talking [ Moto Droid + HTC hero ] in Q1, wait for Q 2 though : [Moto Droid + Droid Incredible + HTC desire + Evo 4G + Xperia X10 + many others.]. iPhone HD will be a winner too, so it is probably RIM which will loose out.
@dementedacademic RIM is releasing the pearl 3G this quater (at least in Canada) and that is probably going to be a hot item, so I wouldn't count them out just yet.
@dementedacademic And the Bold 9650 World Phone on CDMA and later on GSM will be a hot seller too thanks to BlackBerry 6. Some folks aren't impressed by either iPhone or Android. Especially the teens and the business savvy folks who prefer their iPod Touches for watching video anyway.
Dude, BB is hip nowadays, and will be so untill the masses find out you can ping on sammy's and nokia's as well. BB OS 6 is terrible. Just plain terrible.
@JFH How do you know? Unless you have actual first-hand knowledge of how it operates, the answer as to how well OS6 operates is unknown until it is in hand. That said, RIM needs to update that UI and the Webkit browser better be the bomb-diggity. Those have been the two-biggest complaints people have had about BB's OS since 4 and 5. Flash should be on there too (and probably will be), but RIM could always use Apple's trash arguments (especially the old chestnut about security) to justify not putting it on the phones.
The rest of the OS works for its main purpose: Pure messaging capability. And for me and a lot of people, that counts more than video replay (which sucks on nearly every phone I've seen thusfar, including Androids) and game play (which nearly no BB owner would do anyhow).
No BB user would play games? I am sure substantial amounts would, if the BB was any good at it. I have seen the BB 6 demo, that is it. But what I have seen, is quite poor. For a non touch OS, I greatly prefer Symbian. For touch devices, both Android and S^3 are better.
I mean, kudos to BB for getting this far, but their devices do not stack up anymore. There is not a single BB I would take over an E72. BB build quality is very plasticky as well. Added to that, you need to go through RIM for internet access & mail. Since the lights go out in their datacentres once in a while, I would not go for that either.
Anywho, like I said, from the Major OS's the BB OS is the worst. And I WISH I could type this response easily on my curve.
@codemaker the Perl had its day...you know...back before Apple and Android ever existed. I personally dont think the perl 3G will be that hot of an item.
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basically we are talking [ Moto Droid + HTC hero ] in Q1, wait for Q 2 though : [Moto Droid + Droid Incredible + HTC desire + Evo 4G + Xperia X10 + many others.]. iPhone HD will be a winner too, so it is probably RIM which will loose out.
@dementedacademic RIM is releasing the pearl 3G this quater (at least in Canada) and that is probably going to be a hot item, so I wouldn't count them out just yet.
@dementedacademic And the Bold 9650 World Phone on CDMA and later on GSM will be a hot seller too thanks to BlackBerry 6. Some folks aren't impressed by either iPhone or Android. Especially the teens and the business savvy folks who prefer their iPod Touches for watching video anyway.
@Sevenmack
Dude, BB is hip nowadays, and will be so untill the masses find out you can ping on sammy's and nokia's as well. BB OS 6 is terrible. Just plain terrible.
@JFH How do you know? Unless you have actual first-hand knowledge of how it operates, the answer as to how well OS6 operates is unknown until it is in hand. That said, RIM needs to update that UI and the Webkit browser better be the bomb-diggity. Those have been the two-biggest complaints people have had about BB's OS since 4 and 5. Flash should be on there too (and probably will be), but RIM could always use Apple's trash arguments (especially the old chestnut about security) to justify not putting it on the phones.
The rest of the OS works for its main purpose: Pure messaging capability. And for me and a lot of people, that counts more than video replay (which sucks on nearly every phone I've seen thusfar, including Androids) and game play (which nearly no BB owner would do anyhow).
@Sevenmack
No BB user would play games? I am sure substantial amounts would, if the BB was any good at it. I have seen the BB 6 demo, that is it. But what I have seen, is quite poor. For a non touch OS, I greatly prefer Symbian. For touch devices, both Android and S^3 are better.
I mean, kudos to BB for getting this far, but their devices do not stack up anymore. There is not a single BB I would take over an E72. BB build quality is very plasticky as well. Added to that, you need to go through RIM for internet access & mail. Since the lights go out in their datacentres once in a while, I would not go for that either.
Anywho, like I said, from the Major OS's the BB OS is the worst. And I WISH I could type this response easily on my curve.
@codemaker
the Perl had its day...you know...back before Apple and Android ever existed. I personally dont think the perl 3G will be that hot of an item.