Smart phones can be and are used sometimes as internet marketing tools. It’s kind of exciting that the new BlackBerry phones are finally arriving. BlackBerry is now the new name for the company that makes them too. No more RIM or Research In Motion. BlackBerry is a cool name that stems from the famous keyboards and their shape with small buttons that looked like the fruit used on the classic first mobile phones made by the company.
The new BlackBerry smart phones Z10 and Q10 are here and soon to be available to be purchased widely.
Look at the picture of the Z10 with 4.2 inch screen for which there is already available a screen protector for less than ten dollars.
Will people buy them in large enough numbers to strengthen the company and make it regain some of the lost market share?
I personally think so but some people think that the opposite will happen. Watch the video below to witness a discussion on this subject. It’s not just opinions either. Some facts you may not know are revealed inside the video too.
So what do you think about the discussion and which of the opinions expressed there do you lean towards?
For those of you who haven’t yet watched the video, I have a request: Have a look at it. Even if you favor the iPhone, the Z10 actually has almost the same size of screen as the iPhone 5 (just 0.2 of an inch longer) and it looks a bit similar, or if you dig the Samsung smart phones with their increasingly larger and larger screens, there is something in the video about your gadgets and the companies that make them too.
After watching the video or even if you skipped doing that, not so cool behavior LOL, what do you think will become of BlackBerry?
Will they do much better than just survive, will they barely survive and be bought by another company or will they slowly disappear from the scene?
Leave your comment and expand on why you think what you think will happen.
Then like the post on Facebook, tweet it and google+ it and bookmark it so that more people will find it and join the discussion.
Authored by Vance Sova
Filed under: Internet Marketing Tools
The BlackBerry Z10 does not have the same sized screen as the iPhone 5. The Z10 has a 4.2-inch 768 x 1280 display, while the iPhone 5 has a 4.0-inch 640 x 1136 display.
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Vance Reply:
February 7th, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Thanks Michael,
I will correct the post accordingly. I watched a review that said it was the same size of screen. Well, it’s pretty close but you’re right, the Z10 has 0.2 of an inch larger screen than iPhone 5. I was completely wrong about the 4.5 inches. So it’s 4 inches for iphone 5 and 4.2 inches for the BlackBerry Z10. I now think even more than before, since I learned more about the Z10 that it will be a success. But you never know what people will do. THose who already have some older BlackBerry phone will likely stay with Blackberry now. What’s good about it is that you can have both business and personal stuff on it completely separated with zero access from one side to the other. I don’t think that any of the other smart phones can do that.
Cheers,
Vance
Jay Reply:
March 19th, 2013 at 6:10 am
Nicely highlighted Michael; like Vance I also assumed, for some reason, that they both had a 4 inch screen. I will personally be buying the Z10: mostly because I have never been a fan of Apple’s products or the way they go about promoting them. However, I think Blackberry will struggle to hold onto their market share in the upcoming years: I get the feeling in the minds of the “trend setters” than the brand is not as cool as it once was.
Vance Reply:
March 19th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Hi Jay,
BlackBerry just got an order from a single buyer, obviously a company, for 1 million of the Z10 smart phones. It’s their ever biggest order from a single entity. You may say it’s not much but I think it’s very significant. And the Z10 has not even been released in the US market. It’s about to happen within a few days. What is cool is changing all the time. Let’s see what will happen next.
Cheers,
Vance.
A major factor I feel is third party support. Third party apps are such a big thing these days, and since it doesn’t fall into the big two markets (iPhone and Android) I’m betting support will be kinda lackluster. I’m sure the big name developers will port their stuff over, but probably not so much for all the others. That’d definitely be a deal breaker for me.
Vance Reply:
February 17th, 2013 at 11:10 am
Hi Kevin,
Thank you for the comment. The number of apps is important to many people. I think they are essential to have and BlackBerry doesn’t have the numbers as high as iPHone or even Android. However, as long as they can have all the apps that really matter, they’ll be fine. Nobody really needs many hundreds or even thousands of apps.
Cheers,
Vance.
Yeah I agree that a major part of a smartphone succeeding is down to how much support it will get from third party app developers. What is the point of a smartphone if it has the same functionality as an old standard phone with just a prettier exterior and GUI.
People want the extra functionality that apps give as they help solve every day problems.
Regards
Vance Reply:
February 18th, 2013 at 10:19 am
Hi Yarry,
I think that everybody agrees on this. The only question is how many apps is enough.
Thanks for joining the conversation.
Cheers,
Vance.
The design for the new Black Berry seems like any other design out in the market. But it doesn’t matter. If it will be useful and cheaper compared to Iphone, then it is a good reason to choose BB over Iphone. I personally want to use apps for free. I wonder why others pay for it when you can use it in android or any other smaprtphones aside from Iphone.
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Vance Reply:
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:21 am
Hi Bryan,
If you choose your phone based on how many free apps you can get with it then you will stick with Android which is likely what you’re using. The iPhone has a lot of free apps too but has also paid apps which are not expensive. A lot of the free apps on Android are not that good from what I hear so the number of free apps is not what makes me choose. BlackBerry has a lot fewer apps right now but it can do things which some people need and appreciate. It will very likely continue to get more apps too. Thanks for the comment.
Vance.
What are you talkng about? The world market is now using samsung…
Vance Reply:
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:14 am
They also use iPhone and BlackBerry and other smart phones. What am I talking about? You probably didn’t read it being too busy putting in your worthless link which I removed. If you can’t comment normally and intelligently you should stay away.
I’ve read a recent study that said that the most popular apps on smartphones are games. If this is the case, and i think it is, Blackberry needs to focus more on being fun, rather than look smart.
z10 looks pretty enough, so all it needs now is a cool game to promote it 🙂
Vance Reply:
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:05 am
Hi DanM,
I think you are right about that. They should widen their focus from business to fun as well. I think that they are understanding the situation and will do the right thing. Thanks for commenting.
Cheers,
Vance.
I had a blackberry for years and it was great for what i needed at the time. But after going through the whole learning process of using an Iphone, i just can’t see myself going back and giving Blackberry a chance again. For that reason alone i doubt many people in my position would give them a chance again.
Vance Reply:
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:01 am
Hi Pio,
Thanks for the comment. What you say makes sense and it’s understandable. People in your position wan’t likely switch back but there are many of those who still use BlackBerry and who will stick with it when they are getting their new phone. Then there are the young people who will be getting their first phone and those who use and like BlackBerry already in the form of the old models which they can get cheaply and one day they’ll get the new model. We’ll see. I think BlackBerry will do OK but won’t be as widely spread as before.
Cheers,
Vance.
In my opinion it wont get back…personally dont like blackberries, cause of the keyboard…i rather perfer samsung sgh369 types of phone which is great for chatting
Vance Reply:
February 25th, 2013 at 2:21 pm
In case you haven’t noticed, the Z10 doesn’t have a keyboard. The Q10 does. If you had read what I wrote in the post you couldn’t have made a comment like this. I wrote the Z10 looks a bit like the iPhone. I could hardly have written that if it had a keyboard.
Most of the people in this world using Samsung Galaxy; it is very difficult for blackberry to succeed as a smart phone.
Wonderful site. Plenty of useful information here. I am sending it to several buddies ans also sharing in delicious. And obviously, thanks on your effort!
To share my experience my employer which is a multinational company has been using BB as the handset for on the go communication. However, that has changed in most organizations in favor of bring your own device because of the rigidity in BB devices and the rest of the enterprise world wanting a balance in security as well as usability. I really wish good luck to the newly launched BB smart phones.
Vance Reply:
March 3rd, 2013 at 11:36 am
Hi James,
Thank you very much for the comment. I think that the new BB smart phones will be reasonably successful. We’ll see. Yesterday I went by a few smart phone stores and the Z10 don’t seem to yet be widely available. That means that they are either selling well and are in short supply or that they haven’t reached the stores in enough numbers yet.
BlackBerry will do OK. I think that everybody agrees on this. I really enjoyed this creative post. Keep sharing such information in future.
Love blackberry smartphones! Hope one day they will dominate the market
Vance Reply:
March 3rd, 2013 at 11:29 am
Hi Sandra,
I think that they will likely not ever dominate the market again as they once did but hopefully they will be one of the major players and stay as such.
Thanks for the comment.
Great work Vance! I usually appreciate informative post and yours is definitely one of them. I was a dedicated Blackberry fan until I got an Iphone – I’d never go back now.
Vance Reply:
March 7th, 2013 at 3:40 pm
Hi Carrie,
Thanks for the comment. I appreciate that you appreciate my post. You were a dedicated BlackBerry fan and you’d never go back now. I understad that perfectly. But what about a few years into the future? I think it’s very hard to tell what will be in then, isn’t it? What if, as unlikely as it may seem now, BlackBerry comes up with something that will be better than iPhone or Samsung and all the other androids? Will you still stick with iPhone then and will all the fans of Samsung and so on remain dedicated to those makes or will there be a switch again?
I’m not sure if you watched the video inside this post where we discuss how BlackBerry is quite popular with young people. Not with all of them of course but a significant number of them. I just talked to one young person yesterday and the dedication to BlackBerry was very apparent.
I don’t have a BlackBerry myself and I’ve never had it. I’m not sure if I’d switch to iPhone had I had it. One guy told me recently that he will stick with BlackBerry and that the problem is that people are just too fickle. I’m not sure that I agree with him in this particular instance but I think that there are people like him.
Nobody knows what will really happen on the smart phone scene but it’s fun discussing it.
Cheers,
Vance.
Many people in this world using Samsung Galaxy its very difficult for blackberry to succeed as a smart phone. and I hope BlackBerry will do OK. thanks for the shared post of this type…
Blackberry Z10 looks very sleek and amazing! Honestly, I feel like getting my hands on one now. I am not a Blackberry guy, but after the launch of these new BB smartphones, I am quite getting attracted towards it. The features are just too good like any high-end Samsung and HTC smartphones. Thanks for the share!
No doubt Samsung has crossed all boundaries and has settled down in the hearts of all people, but BB is taking off too. Having had the phone for a few days, I find that as a straight out the box, the phone offers everything to get you started. I brought my wife an iPhone 5, and as a basic phone with no apps, I’d much prefer Z10. I think Z10 is good phone, perhaps people ought to use fully before making snap judgments. Nice post and review by you!
hello….ths is a amazing mobile…because its price is less as compare to samsung mobile…and features is well…customers purchases this mobile easily..i baught this mobile after some time.thanx for this post and all the best…
I still doubt on the success of BlackBerry 10. I don’t know why, just a gut feeling that I am having! You can check out its competitors are launching new phones with same features at comparatively low cost. I just hope BB achieves the position with the launch of this phone.