Solid design, but is it enough?<\/p><\/div>\n
Both the Z10 and Q10 will be available on all four major U.S. carriers. There’s no news of pricing or\u00a0availability\u00a0on the Q10, but Verizon has confirmed that it will have the Z10 in March for $199. I freely admit that the price point there is spooking me a bit. While $199 is the typical price for a flagship phone, other handset makers’ flagships have established operating systems, with better screens and chipsets, and are already available at a discount through most channels (except, of course, the iPhone). That means someone has to want to wait for these phones specifically to resist the temptation to snap something else up.<\/p>\n
Can BlackBerry compete with Apple and Samsung, the co-kings of the hill? I’m not sure the company is even trying to. The wise thing to do is go after Windows Phone 8, which has a ton of features no one seems to want (People Hub? LiveTiles but no notifications? Soon to loose Google Exchange sync?), but interesting hardware with a decent amount of variation. Then, BlackBerry can try its hand at beating Microsoft to the number three slot with a tighter hardware and software experience. BlackBerry’s established footprint in the business market, somewhere that Microsoft has shockingly failed to establish a phone OS time and again, gives them a real edge.<\/p>\n
What do you think? Is BB10 what you need to stay with BlackBerry or bring you back? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By altering the name to BlackBerry, the company formerly known as RIM shows greater brand-awareness. The average person on the street doesn’t know what RIM is, but even with the market loss to iPhones and Android devices, BlackBerry is still a household term. While\u00a0the name change does little to help with the image of BlackBerry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1917,38],"tags":[2475,43,3,3863,653,69,3862],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16123,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16116\/revisions\/16123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}