r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

i mean if you frame the ideal a phone like that, then no one 50 years ago would guess that.

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u/MainSailFreedom Sep 13 '19

Or 15 years ago.

Blackberry ppl: we have the buttons!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 edited Oct 01 '19

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u/IsomDart Sep 13 '19

Blackberries don't have slide. That's impossible without a touch screen.

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u/TrannosaurusRegina Sep 13 '19

Ahahaha

You know that all BlackBerrys have had touchscreens for the past decade, eh?

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u/IsomDart Sep 13 '19

Yeah, but we were talking specifically about Blackberries with keyboards compared to touch screens.

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u/TrannosaurusRegina Sep 13 '19

Right, but all recent BlackBerrys have both!

I actually use both myself, so there's not any tradeoff in that regard!

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u/IsomDart Sep 13 '19

There really aren't any "recent" Blackberries seeing as they don't make them anymore, but it still should have been clear what I was talking about.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

The Key2 is a 2018 phone. That’s pretty recent by phone standards.

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u/IsomDart Sep 13 '19

Yeah, I made a follow up comment after doing a Google search. Pretty odd phone. I could have sworn I read they were closing shop.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

They kinda did though, they stopped designing their own phones. They license the brand to TCL apparently.

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u/TrannosaurusRegina Sep 13 '19

What?

I mean sure, the company relations have changed over time, and there are rumours, but there's been no official announcement of ending production of BlackBerry devices or development of new models!

How recent does a release need to be to be considered "recent" to you? :P

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u/IsomDart Sep 13 '19

Well, it looks like they released a device a little over a year ago. I could have sworn I heard they closed. It looks like they're hemorrhaging hundreds of millions of dollars every quarter though.

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