Quite an old joke.
I do miss my old Blackberry 9900
BlackBerry Storm, biggest letdown of a phone. Full touch screen but with a click mechanism for haptic feedback. Sounded great, didn't work all that well.
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Awe... I miss my Blackberry Torch... easily in my top five favorite phones of all time.
Someone add another row for Windows Phone.
Oh they have a row it's just empty like the user base
at this point I think we can safely say what the fuck is a blackberry
The opposite of a whiteberry?
Now Iphone girl has absorbed a bit of BlackBerry's elitism, both in self-image and perception of Android. You'd need to add a green text bubble, too.
Everyone else sees BlackBerry guy as a dinosaur, and are about as amazed to meet him IRL.
Does BlackBerry still exist?
Yes but they don't do any hardware anymore and have pivoted into security for enterprise phones, iot and cars.
They pivoted into a software company specialising in cyber security
i hate that smooth-rectangle has become the standard
stop it with the extra cameras and the beveled edges, i'd give up half my screen space for some real goddamn buttons
Yeah, some blackberry-like devices would be nice.
I really liked the second-hand blackberry I had in the mid 00's. I hope that design with physical buttons and the trackball makes a comeback someday. Though I think people are too accustomed to touch screens to be able to move back to smaller devices at this point.
Ngl, I wonder how I was able to type on my Samsung Galaxy Y.
The device is so small and I wonder how much of it were child-sized hands.
The blackberry row is 1000% accurate at least.
Obama was forced to use a Blackberry while president and he hated it.
"I get the thing, and they're all like, 'Well, Mr. President, for security reasons ... it doesn't take pictures, you can't text, the phone doesn't work, ... you can't play your music on it,'" Obama said during an appearance on The Tonight Show this week. "Basically, it's like, does your three-year-old have one of those play phones?"
https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11910306/obama-upgrades-from-blackberry
Edit: Ugh, I hate the way The Verge totally failed at punctuation.
The quote is about Obama being forced to give up his beloved BlackBerry and move to a secure phone.
That quote is about the replacement phone, not the Blackberry
isn't thrilled with this new phone either
Any secure phone will have the same restrictions - the manufacturer doesn't make much difference in this case
I am (was) a mobile developer and my favorite app that I ever wrote was a TV guide for a (very) large ISP/cable company. Unfortunately, it was for Blackberry in 2010 just as they were in their death throes. The most common response from people who tried it was "how is this even possible on a Blackberry?" Blackberrys were actually extremely powerful devices, but it was an abysmal platform for developers; sometimes just testing out a one-line code change took 45 minutes, or maybe wasn't even possible at all and I had to go home (come to think of it, maybe that made it a great platform for developers).
An under-appreciated negative about them was that the most common devices had 16-bit color (RGB565 which used 5 bits each for red and blue and 6 bits for green - I have no idea what made green so special) which made everything look washed-out and pukey. That scroll wheel was fantastic, though. Really allowed you to do precision control despite the tiny screen, something that just isn't possible on today's touchscreen devices with fat fingers.
Human eyes are more sensitive to green than blue or red, and more readily notice details and defects in green shading.
Furthermore, our eyes are really bad at blue, so much so that you can reduce the resolution of blue pixels 3x, and people won't even notice. Most streaming videos are encoded this way.
This old article has some nice visual examples and is still relevant today.
I knew this stuff, yet i was still surprised by just how bad reducing green is
That shit is still going on today.
Only if you actually care to follow it
Oh, I don’t. But sometimes you can’t not see it.
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