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Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JessTheUnstill</span></a></span> One of the big fuckups for BlackBerry was just the delays in getting BlackBerry 10, plus the Z10 and Q10, to market.</p><p>I got to use BB10 for a couple of months, and it was nice. It was built on QNX, with a modern swipe/gesture based UI built with Qt. </p><p>Arguably a better OS than the iOS and Android releases at that same time.</p><p>There was a feature called the Hub, which wax a unified inbox for your email messages, social posts, and text messages. Plus a modern app store, and separate personal/work profiles built into the OS.</p><p>There was a version without a physical keyboard (Z10) and with (Q10).</p><p>The problem is they didn't start working on it until 2010, and BB10 wasn't released until 2013.</p><p>For about two years before BB10 came out, BlackBerry didn't release any new phones.</p><p>Had BB10 come out earlier, it *might* have saved the company.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Blackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackberry</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Crackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crackberry</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/phones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phones</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/smartphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smartphones</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/CellPhones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CellPhones</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iOS</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BB10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BB10</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/blackberry10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackberry10</span></a></p>
newo<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@SiteRelEnby" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SiteRelEnby</span></a></span> what abt the 'ol BBOS sounds? </p><p>I found <a href="https://mega.nz/file/RAlCnIpD#Pma5P0hwVTf_CnVdK-xzqjD7CE6n62vz9Gf3kXtdFc0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this zip file</a>, containing all the sounds on <a href="https://forums.crackberry.com/more-your-blackberry-10-phone-f306/upload-all-original-bbos-10-sounds-notifications-alarm-ringtones-1188841/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this CrackBerry post</a>!</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/blackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackberry</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/bbos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbos</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/crackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crackberry</span></a></p>
Daniel Turner<p>Finally... Keyception! <a href="https://mas.to/tags/blackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackberry</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/crackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crackberry</span></a></p>
ricardo :mastodon:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://smugglersbbs.com/@mayor" class="u-url mention">@<span>mayor</span></a></span> I feel ya! <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/crackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crackberry</span></a></p>
WTangoFoxtrot<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>taylorlorenz</span></a></span> as a recovering <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/crackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crackberry</span></a> addict I would have hoped for the contoured keyboards of the bold and not the chicklet keyboards that non <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/blackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackberry</span></a> phones used to have.</p>
jaxwxboss :linux:<p>This brings back memories.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/blackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blackberry</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/crackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crackberry</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retro</span></a></p>
Martin 🍹<p>A small handheld Pi with Blackberry Passport keyboard, running Linux and Beeper chat. Nice!!<br><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/crackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crackberry</span></a> </p><p>Beepberry by SQFMI x Beeper | Beepberry<br><a href="https://beepberry.sqfmi.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">beepberry.sqfmi.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dave Mark<p>"How Blackberry Messenger Forever Changed The Way We Text"</p><p>GREAT read on the OG messaging device and how Crackberry changed the game by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span>. 🙌🏻</p><p><a href="https://www.inverse.com/tech/how-blackberry-bbm-changed-messaging-forever" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inverse.com/tech/how-blackberr</span><span class="invisible">y-bbm-changed-messaging-forever</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackberry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crackberry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a></p>