- I still havent been able to transfer my calendar entries from my older Blackberry 9900 to the Z10. Tried every solution listed. How’s that for an advanced OS.

- The killed push-email, the ONLY great thing they had. Sad. (of course, I know many a fan will pounce and offer XWZ solutions, but the earlier BBs had fantastic email. This one does not even close. My god. The OS is advanced way beyond and declared email dead.

- Randomly, some of my emails show as read, even though I have never seen them. BB10 is so advanced, thinks email is dead.

- My device screen orientation lock isn’t working. Must be because the OS is so futuristic, it doesnt want to be disturbed by us prehistoric people

- Sometimes, the contact app cannot be quit. I have to pull the battery. Wow. Futuristic.

- BB10 thinks iPhone OS is outdated because in an iPhone you can’t pull the battery to fix problems at least 3 times a day

- sometimes is impossible to get out of the camera app without pulling the battery. Awesome. They must be doing this in the future.

- there is no way to know the total number of contacts in my contact book, something I could do in my 12 year old Symbian phone. In the future, I believe, numbers have no value.

- The BB10 OS is so advanced it doesn’t ship with a built in simple notes app. You have to use the built in heavy duty word processor app.

- the BB10 is so futuristic, the alarm clock doesn’t tell you how many hours before it goes off. Why bother with all the useless information. That was for 10 year old symbian devices.

- The BB10 Z10 is so advanced that it doesn’t care about SMTP Authentication. You must switch it off else randomly some mails never leave the phone. Of course, authentication is so outdated.

- The BB10 is so advanced that the top menu bar doesn’t show what’s the date and day of the week it is. Humans of the future have it embedded in their heads.

- the BB10 is so much into the future that apps don’t have the top menu bar, so while using an app if you need to see the time, battery or signal bevel, you have the leave the app. Wow! I feel like on a galactic mission already.

- BB10 is so advanced that customers are not year ready for it. My BB shop guy told me customers want to return it for an iPhone

- The BB is such a progressive, advanced and global phone that if I bought it unlocked in London, I couldn’t access the updates in Thailand. Awesome. In the future we get more compartmentalised.

- And yes,its so futuristic, it doesn’t say which processor it’s using. The Snapdragon or the other one.

- The BB10 is so much into the future that it’s so damn difficult to figure out how to change the default colour and size of email text. The humans of the future cannot waste time on stupid details like these. After all, they need the time to watch their BBs boot from battery pulls.

Sigh… I could go on…

I have to concede though, I know next to nothing about Blackberry 10 etc. And I think it is the high-end HTC and Blackberry that may be more problematic (from what I have heard about those new phones) for Apple in the future. Samsung will have problems as soon as Firefox and Ubuntu phones come out. I think those will eat away at the low-end market, especially in lower-income countries, and greatly affect Samsung’s bottom-line, and I think they see it coming too, what with that show last week ;)

Hardware on the other hand… ;) I wish I had the money for an iPhone 5 :D Yes, yes, I do like Apple products. But to me there have always been 3 major stumbling blocks to getting one. Size, price and functionality. Size is now a non-issue (as opposed to samsung phones which keep getting bigger to accomodate a bigger battery). Price is still major, and I think this is an issue for a lot of people who aren’t as interested in all the gimmicky details, instead looking primarily at price, external look and feel, and the first few minutes of OS usage, all of which I still believe Apple has a lead in (though not as dramatic a lead as 2 years ago!). And with functionality we are back at the OS. With size not changing again soon, and Apple offering older iPhones in lieu of a cheaper new version, this is the only space that Apple can develop further. And I hope to see that soon… just cause those keynotes are fun to watch! As opposed to Samsung at the Music Hall… hehe, that was just embarassing :D

First, Thorsten Heins seems to be on the news on almost a daily basis, giving out his views on almost everything, except the future of BlackBerry, and what they plan to do next. Saying the iPhone is “standing still”, ummm, well we can’t argue with that. Who better than BlackBerry to know that!

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