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kleinbl00  ·  3356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Blackberry Venice

I got no video, for whatever reason.

You convinced me on BBRY. I own shit tons of fake options that expire about six days after their earnings meeting Sept 25. Venice or not, they're cashflow positive, they've made a lot of great acquisitions lately, and they just signed two huge clients, one of which is classified.

And that's the bottom line. They're an enterprise platform, and the fact that they've decided to be an enterprise platform that doesn't suck balls is huge.

I've never used a Blackberry. Their specs have always lagged the rest of the world. They've always had janky operating systems. They've never taken real computing seriously. This thing?

I'd jailbreak it, root it and install cyanogenmod just to have a physical keyboard again. And I can't be the only one. Fuckin' iPhones poisoned the well something serious; the switch from "nubbins on the F and J" to "pawing impotently at the glass" was demoralizing and lame.

I'm gettin' tingly at the thought, frankly. Swiftkey kicks the shit out of iOS lameness but BUTTONS.

FYI: BBRY closed at 7.50. In after-hours trading it's already up to $8.74. It hasn't been that high since June.





hyperflare  ·  3356 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm using minuum right now, which is the first time in goddamn years I feel motivated to write something longer than three words on my phone. Still though, an actual keyboard? YES PLEASE

Oh, and also no video for me.

kleinbl00  ·  3356 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmmm. I may need to check that out. Which is the new keyboard Swiftkey tried to get you to use? I tried that for a while but prediction works really poorly with my idiogrammatical approach to language.

Fortunately I now have two bullshit Android phones to phuck with, so I can testbed like a mofo.

veen  ·  3356 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am currently using Fleksy, whose gestures, quick language switch (Dutch<>English by swiping the space bar) and copy/paste toolbar have become quite invaluable.

I might also mess around with Minuum, but I do know that it has to be really good to beat out Fleksy.