Ideal Blackberry 10 Phone
With Samsung selling in the range of 75 Million phones worldwide per quarter, and Apple selling 25 million, Blackberry’s forecast of selling 12 million phones next quarter does not sound as great.
Three of the most precious assets of the blackberry brand are: hardware design, BBM, and secure email. Hence, these three features should not be removed from the new upcoming Blackberry 10 platform. That said, the ideal new QNX Blackberry 10 phone needs to include:
- An iPhone like touch screen with no physical keyboard
- Full Integration with Amazon Content Eco-system
- Access to most popular Android Marketplace applications
- 8MP camera
- 4G internet
- BBM
- Secure e-mail
- A price point of $99.
The amount of memory in the device is something that can continue at the 8GB point, with the option to upgrade to 64GB. The upgrade would be done via the memory expansion slot. We believe, manufacturing the Blackberry 10 with a de facto 8GB, is actually a competitive advantage for Blackberry. This reduces inventory and manufacturing costs associated with producing various memory models. Furthermore, it allows to introduce the phone at a competing price point of $99, without incurring in the additional costs of more memory. At the same time, this gives the customer the option to upgrade their phones memory at their own discretion.
