I've read through some of these threads on CrackBerry and realize I am not alone in the diehard BBOS users that have been left to dry in the world of Android, BB10 (soon EOS/EOL) and iOS platforms.
There is much to be appreciated for these old Curve/Bolds! I have read and set out to test the MMS HEX Editor hack on my old Bold, however that would not be enough to have me switch back to the Bold. I would like to know if the Bold device can be configured not to be dependent on now defunct BIS service.
Rather than folks in my camp look around for workarounds, I believe there is enough market demand for BlackBerry to make the BBOS source be licensable to other "off-beat" phone makers, maybe even make a limited release of their own.
I want to see "can-do" response here, not "it will cost BB millions to produce a now fringe product" like response.
I am sick of the all_touchy-bloated-I'm_too_thin_to_grab market saturation....I believe there is an untapped market here that BB has decided to suck dry. There is KaiOS with a gleam of hope; however nothing with the R&D behind it that BBOS had.
BlackBerry and friends, like John Chen said publicly recently, a phone manufacture needs to release something like the Bold 9900 (paraphrased.)
https://crackberry.com/john-chen-wan...900-smartphone
Who is with me on this? (If you have to say something against this, please reframe yourself. (I am sick of the post BBOS era folks of being so damn negative about a platform they know nothing about.)
Something needs to be done to save a lot of folks from this phone market homogenization. Feature must haves:
1. Removable Battery (creates demand for folks like Seidio to make available extended batteries)
2. No touch screen option. Phones today are way to touchy and anyone who has used a Bold or Curve can tell ya, all that touch is unnecessary and ill-efficient....can't stress this enough!
3. Apps of conservative file size. BBOS does not need anymore than 256mb of RAM to do everything folks can do on today's smartphones just without the harassing bloated overhead.
4. Phone should be a soap bar form factor, it is small, thick enough to easily grab and handle and we forgot that folks need to be able to operate with one hand only.
5. Convenience buttons.
6. Bold 9900 type qwerty keyboard....it was perfected, why stray away!
7. Excellent speaker, you don't have to plug your other ear in order to hear the other person on the line while in a noisy area like the train.
8. The track pad instead of the touch; kinda touched on this already however can't stress enough how much I miss that track pad/button.
9. Colored LED alerts, today you have to install 3rd party apps to get any kind of decent control and I'm glad BB still implements this feature, though needs more emphasis on simplicity of function.
10. Video record pause, the BB10 and I think even the Android phones do not allow the pause of video recording. This feature prevents the need for post - editing.
11. Business minded phone jingles....come on now, we need some seriously simple jingles that do not have negative effects through folks nervous systems. A simple jingle that just beeps like an old beeper is to be admired and simple jingles should be stocked as I have resorted to making sounds with my mouth as custom jingles as the alternative. If you want Justin "Beeper" going off jingling your joy phone, you need an iPhone not a BlackBerry BBOS device, plain and simple!)
12. Let me know your BBOS days' functions now MIA!
There is much to be appreciated for these old Curve/Bolds! I have read and set out to test the MMS HEX Editor hack on my old Bold, however that would not be enough to have me switch back to the Bold. I would like to know if the Bold device can be configured not to be dependent on now defunct BIS service.
Rather than folks in my camp look around for workarounds, I believe there is enough market demand for BlackBerry to make the BBOS source be licensable to other "off-beat" phone makers, maybe even make a limited release of their own.
I want to see "can-do" response here, not "it will cost BB millions to produce a now fringe product" like response.
I am sick of the all_touchy-bloated-I'm_too_thin_to_grab market saturation....I believe there is an untapped market here that BB has decided to suck dry. There is KaiOS with a gleam of hope; however nothing with the R&D behind it that BBOS had.
BlackBerry and friends, like John Chen said publicly recently, a phone manufacture needs to release something like the Bold 9900 (paraphrased.)
https://crackberry.com/john-chen-wan...900-smartphone
Who is with me on this? (If you have to say something against this, please reframe yourself. (I am sick of the post BBOS era folks of being so damn negative about a platform they know nothing about.)
Something needs to be done to save a lot of folks from this phone market homogenization. Feature must haves:
1. Removable Battery (creates demand for folks like Seidio to make available extended batteries)
2. No touch screen option. Phones today are way to touchy and anyone who has used a Bold or Curve can tell ya, all that touch is unnecessary and ill-efficient....can't stress this enough!
3. Apps of conservative file size. BBOS does not need anymore than 256mb of RAM to do everything folks can do on today's smartphones just without the harassing bloated overhead.
4. Phone should be a soap bar form factor, it is small, thick enough to easily grab and handle and we forgot that folks need to be able to operate with one hand only.
5. Convenience buttons.
6. Bold 9900 type qwerty keyboard....it was perfected, why stray away!
7. Excellent speaker, you don't have to plug your other ear in order to hear the other person on the line while in a noisy area like the train.
8. The track pad instead of the touch; kinda touched on this already however can't stress enough how much I miss that track pad/button.
9. Colored LED alerts, today you have to install 3rd party apps to get any kind of decent control and I'm glad BB still implements this feature, though needs more emphasis on simplicity of function.
10. Video record pause, the BB10 and I think even the Android phones do not allow the pause of video recording. This feature prevents the need for post - editing.
11. Business minded phone jingles....come on now, we need some seriously simple jingles that do not have negative effects through folks nervous systems. A simple jingle that just beeps like an old beeper is to be admired and simple jingles should be stocked as I have resorted to making sounds with my mouth as custom jingles as the alternative. If you want Justin "Beeper" going off jingling your joy phone, you need an iPhone not a BlackBerry BBOS device, plain and simple!)
12. Let me know your BBOS days' functions now MIA!