iPhone 5...Anyone???

[Rockheart]

This is all true, except Blackberry didn't invent 'the app store'. There was Click-n-Run before it, and 'apt' by Debian Linux much, much before but essentially the same thing: users make packages, upload them into centralized repository for 'one click' installation.

They also didn't rip Blackberry for the design, they ripped off Sony back in 2006
http://allthingsd.com/20120726/apple...-says-samsung/



Android is now the most used operating system on earth beating microsoft, all linux distros and iOS *combined*, with India and China almost exclusively using Android smartphones now for privacy and cost reasons. It's open source, so anybody can manufacture a phone, modify Android and release their own product for half the price of an Iphone 5 but with identical hardware. Every single university and tech school on this planet exclusively deals with Android in class because they don't have to pay licensing to Apple or Microsoft or Blackberry. Every future computer science and engineering graduate now has an indepth knowledge of Android and are using it to create their own open source and even better free smartphone systems, or contributing back to the Android project.



qnx patents are now worthless.

This is the future: http://www.technologyreview.com/arti...ier-transform/ and MIT released the code and math proofs for free, nobody can patent it. This is a serious breakthrough, not a patent that just fiddles with the regular fourier transform trying to squeeze some more life out of it.

My advice would be to import a Chinese Android phone like Meizu for around $300-400 http://en.meizu.com/
They're already unlocked and can use on any carrier here. If secure privacy is your concern, then you want to use Android apps like TextSecure and Redphone encrypted voice (for free) not trusting closed source backdoors. Can also have total control over the Android OS to weed out any bloatware, create a custom version for yourself and disable security issues like Near Field Communications and GPS. You have to illegally jailbreak/root the Iphone to modify it, same with Blackberry.

I doubt Blackberry is very much Canadian anymore either, Microsoft just signed a deal so all their future operating systems are Windows 8.

You are really stretching here.

Blackberry invented the app store for the modern smartphone.
There has been other app repositories, I am not saying there wasn't.

QNX has tried and true mobile technology that is far beyond what apple can muster at this point.
Often patents are the most beneficial even at the point they are seen to be losing ground, they are not worthless.

The latest findings are just that, if they hold out they will find their way into products in 5-10 years.
We are still at the end of this technology cycle, we will not see the new mobile face for a few more years yet.
Whatever lies beyond LTE is going to be it.
If this new Fourier Transform is the thing then it will be 5G or 6G or whatever they call it.
This will be a transmission standard, not a proprietary smartphone patent, you are not comparing the same thing.
No one patents that stuff because phone companies rarely invent that sort of thing anyways.
In the old days AT & T and Bell Labs invented many open source technologies, like the C programming language.
These types of advances are generally found in Academic institutions like MIT today.

Open source will always be popular but rarely with the enterprise community, they need the paid support.
Versions of Android for Samsung and others cannot be considered open source anymore as they have built proprietary versions.
Hackers and enthusiasts like to muck with open source phones, but the average person and business users don't want to play around with the guts of their phones, they just want it to work.

What does licensing technology have to do with not being Canadian?
RIM licensed the "File Allocation Table" format that is used in windows 8, this is far from being windows 8.
I have built an operating system, and it is alot more than a File system.

[Locomotion]

The Shame of Owning a Blackberry Phone

Blackberry invented the app store for the modern smartphone.
There has been other app repositories, I am not saying there wasn't.

The shame of owning a Blackberry. lol:

http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/sha...022827161.html

[Lani]

Watch out!

The shame of owning a Blackberry. lol:

http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/sha...022827161.html

Don't get him started again.

[Rockheart]

The shame of owning a Blackberry. lol:

http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/sha...022827161.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...kberry/263718/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/op...martphone.html

"The perception that BlackBerry users are "uncool" is widespread today. And there's good reason for that. But in reality, the BlackBerry is becoming the phone for independent thinkers and non-conformists, which is a whole lot "cooler" than using an iPhone like everyone else."
http://blogs.cio.com/blackberry/1747...cool-seriously

[Lani]

No complaints....

"The perception that BlackBerry users are "uncool" is widespread today. And there's good reason for that. But in reality, the BlackBerry is becoming the phone for independent thinkers and non-conformists, which is a whole lot "cooler" than using an iPhone like everyone else."

Both pictures taken using my new iPhone5....Don't you think it's very crisp?!....

[Locomotion]

Don't get him started again.

lol ... I know, Lani ... but I saw that headline on Yahoo and it made me think of Crag ... I couldn't resist!!

[maddplotter]

Why did the stormtrooper buy an iphone?

Because he couldn't find the droid he was looking for.

Funny joke! And I just came across this pic....