Starting December 1st they will be offering up to $550.00 bribes to get you to dump your iphone for the new BlackBerry...

I'm on the fence, I had two blackberry phones and the 1st was great, last one sucked 😯

Are you considering the offer?

if has non 6 iphone then offer is nice but otherwise not.

Whaaa?

iPhone 4 for Blackberry ... perhaps ...
doubt the offers open here in the uk though

if they offer 550 bucks when changes iphone to bb then offer is nice as long as offer includes other iphones than iphone6s (even cheapest iphone6 costs ~650 bucks).

Gotcha Marshal, ya I'm not sure on the specific iPhones that will qualify for the offer.

Akula, maybe they'll have something similar over there.

highly unlikely, only in yankeeland.

The Passport is a really nice phone. If you use it for work stuff like viewing docs or writing e-mails/texts/browsing it's a really nice device that you don't need to keep turning sideways to get a decent width for viewing media/PPTs. Plus the obvious keyboard win which is the obvious reason you get the phone :p

As soon as you want to use consumer-focused apps the use case isn't as strong for BB devices in general even with access to more Android apps. What devices did you have that you liked/didn't like?

I've always enjoyed the BBs I had for e-mail, texting, BBM and business productivity stuff. The Passport continues down the path that things like the Curve and Bold compared to the Z10 and other BB10 stuff.

The offer itself is a sliding scale -- $350 for an iPhone 4S up to $550 for an iPhone 6. And it's to offset the purchase of a Passport, which is like $600...
I don't think it's targeted at the consumer market for that reason and it ends up being a "gotcha" based on how the media is playing it up. It's clearly targeted at all the enterprises who moved away from BB to iPhone over the last couple of years and need the financial incentive to make the switch back. BB has a TON of cash reserves so it makes sense to buy back some of the market share they lost when they took their eyes off the enterprise market.

I don't remember the names of them, Pang, but I owned the first and last generation bb that came out.

Did the last one you had have a physical keyboard or was it all screen?

iphone 4s 16gb costs atm ~250-300 bucks in bestbuy so.......

Physical.... wait, they had a screen one?, see I was so disappointed with my last physical keyboard one I missed the screen one (if it ever existed)

I'm happy with my disconnected Nokia Windows Phone.

wait, what? if it ever existed? and you didn't like the blackberry physical keyboard and wanted a touch screen one?

they've only ever made one touch screen only phone and that was the Z10 (I think it came out in 2013)

I'm not sure what to tell you but it sounds like you may have purchased some counterfeit BlackBerries :p

Yeah ok, I bought it in the black market, came from some store in Ferguson...

Lol blackberries are the vhs tapes or 8 tracks of the cell phone world

Silly that folks stilluse them for some reason but hey not my money

I think they had the Blackberry Storm prior to the Z10 which was also a full touchscreen BB

It's probably the best phone for the niche it's targeting. For everyone else it doesn't even deserve a second look.

The LG G3 is the best phone out there imo

I had a touchscreen BB in '09. A decent phone, but it was behind even then. Blackberry has done this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE

I carried a lot of Blackberries over the years, but I have no reason to go back to them now. I'm quite happy with my Samsung Galaxy Note II and my wife (also had many Blackberries) has a Samsung Galaxy Note III.

As far as I'm concerned, Android has won the Smartphone war.