[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
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Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
I still feel like it was a better communication tool compared to
the smartphone touchscreens of today. Really miss the good old
days.
Author : jaytaylor
Score : 17 points
Date : 2021-09-13 22:00 UTC (1 hours ago)
| trangus_1985 wrote:
| I vastly prefer on screen keyboards. I'm faster with them, it
| requires a lighter touch, and the auto correct is good enough.
|
| What I miss about blackberries is that they were messaging
| devices, with OS level integrations around messaging that went
| beyond the notification system of today.
|
| For 90% of messages i send, i could simply use a generic sms
| style interface through a system-wide messaging app, only jumping
| into the apps themselves from time to time. I think palm had
| that, but it was too little, too late.
|
| unihertz makes a blackberry clone btw, check it out
| Wonnk13 wrote:
| I think you're spot on about the keyboard being rubbish, but
| overall bbm was great.
|
| Everytime I upgrade my iPhone I find myself removing more and
| more apps. At this point all I really want/need is google maps,
| iMessages and... yaknow a phone. idgaf about anything else.
| thedday wrote:
| I do miss my Treo. I preferred it to my Blackberry. Both were
| better and less distracting than my current ad-presenting spy
| box.
| flatiron wrote:
| I loved my centro. My first "smart" phone
| JohnFen wrote:
| Never used a Blackberry, but I seriously miss physical keyboards.
| 908B64B197 wrote:
| I remember the BlackBerry Storm, the first touch screen phone by
| RIM launching at the same time as the iPhone 3G. No Wifi, slow
| janky scrolling, no apps (well, sure, if you don't mind
| downloading some random .jar that had to be recompiled for the
| custom fork they ran on that device). Felt like a rushed beta.
|
| Meanwhile the iPhone just worked. Smooth scrolling, fast browser
| especially on Wifi. You could get apps from the AppStore that
| launched at the same time as the phone, no friction.
|
| By the time the 3GS was released, if your firm still issued BBs
| you knew it was time to look around!
| cuddlybacon wrote:
| I miss my Pearl, but not the other BlackBerry devices I had.
|
| I like how you could type on it without looking. It's been a
| decade and I still have typo issues with touchscreen phones. A
| post this long would likely have 4 noticeable typos if done on my
| phone.
| httpsterio wrote:
| man I really hate typing on a phone. I know im pretty fast but
| it still feels clumsy and I have to go back and fix at least a
| typo or two per sentence. Thats with autocorrect enabled.
| evo_9 wrote:
| Maybe a poll would have been a better approach ? HN has a little
| used poll feature.
| morganf wrote:
| Yeees. Make a phone with a keyboard as easy to type on as that
| one and I'm customer number one!
| jcun4128 wrote:
| I really enjoyed my 8330, I really used it "like a computer', I
| was writing blogs out of it. Only thing is the rolling ball mouse
| don't miss that (dirt).
| voz_ wrote:
| Not at all. Worse in every way I can think of.
| Dracophoenix wrote:
| I wished I had a Blackberry when I was a much younger, but
| personally I miss Windows Phones a lot more.
| thegagne wrote:
| Windows Phones were awful in general but provided something
| that no full featured smart phone can: simplicity.
|
| Notifications? Hardly. Browser? Barely works. Apps? Pshh.
| Instant messaging? I hope you like SMS! Games? There's a couple
| good ones you never heard of that won't be maintained.
|
| But heck, if you want peace and quiet and while still offering
| the basics in good form, the Windows Phone couldn't be beat.
| IggleSniggle wrote:
| The audio design of the Windows Phone was _exquisite_. The
| physical design of the Nokias was also excellent. It always
| felt to me like it was the phone that was most thoughtfully
| designed, and it just arrived too late to be able to compete
| realistically...who wanted to write apps for Windows phone
| when you could write for ecosystems that already had wide
| adoption?
| shortsightedsid wrote:
| If I remember correctly, the image quality on the
| Nokia/Windows phones were pretty good as well.
| bastardoperator wrote:
| I loved it when my UT Starcom windows phone would crash mid
| phone call. I was able to convince Verizon to give me a free
| upgrade to blackberry because it was so bad.
|
| Do I miss my blackberry? Not really, but I do miss how
| excited I was to have a device that was actually useful. I
| feel like we're just iterating over the same base design
| these days, which is fine, but the excitement isn't there for
| me like it used to be.
| cehrlich wrote:
| Obviously there's no going back - does anyone remember how much
| of a pain Google Maps was on the BlackBerry? - but I have to
| admit I miss some aspects.
|
| The way BlackBerry integrated all communication channels into one
| place so it didn't matter which platform you were messaging
| someone on. The way you could just start typing on the home
| screen and would get suggested contacts etc. The fact that there
| were no awful "social networking" apps full of dark patterns to
| promote addictive behaviour (of course this came at the expense
| of just generally not having many apps).
| pavlov wrote:
| _> "BlackBerry integrated all communication channels into one
| place so it didn't matter which platform you were messaging
| someone on"_
|
| Windows Phone 7 did a great job at this. It put people at the
| center of the mobile UI rather than apps.
|
| Sadly it was anathema to companies like Facebook who absolutely
| want you to enter their app and absolutely don't want to be API
| providers for a centralized user experience controlled by an OS
| vendor.
| tablespoon wrote:
| > I still feel like it was a better communication tool compared
| to the smartphone touchscreens of today.
|
| Your daily reminder that newer is often not better, and the
| market frequently rewards regression.
| Daishiman wrote:
| I definitely miss the keyboard and the fact that it was a device
| optimized for writing.
|
| The audio out was damn good for its time too.
| loudtieblahblah wrote:
| initially - i just didn't think the first rollouts of on screen
| keyboards were that good.
|
| I got android devices that always had a keyboard. It wasn't until
| Swype (discontinued - RIP) and SwiftKey that I really felt
| onscreen keyboards offered a lot that allowed them to surpass
| physical keyboards.
|
| The eventual inclusion of touch-vibrate feedback on button push
| was a good add on too.
|
| now there's really no point to blackberry.
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