BB products look like they're high quality and apparently are the only ones approved for diplomatic missions by the US state. Yet, they're locked down and.it's basically impossible to do anything custom on them.
BBOS 10 | QNX
Dominic Wilson
Asher Sanders
BBOS 10 will have all its support ended by the end of 2019.
This may mean that new phones cannot be activated and current ones cannot be restored, because the activation/bb protect servers will not be available then.
App development will also die off completely, as a developer token is required to sideload unsigned apps. The token expires every 30 days. Obviously tokens won't be available past the EOL date.
The OS is locked down, no modifications possible without and exploit of sorts. This means the software will rot over time with no way of adapting it to current APIs and standards.
Unless someone steps up and release some kind of exploit to allow modifications to the OS, along with some documentations to kickstart modding, the OS will die for good comes EOL, unlike some other EOL'd OSes that still get some community attention.
The practically nonexistant community means it probably will never happen though. Hell BBOS 7 will probably last longer.
The Passport does feel like it's well built.
They're locked down for security. Though that won't do much for an EOL'd platform.
Isaac Watson
Idk user I daily my passport (ATT) and it performs fairly well. Sure, it lags occasionally and had its "learning curve", so to say, but now when I pick up an Android it just feels... gross. Also QNX is really super cool. Too bad we can't use for home computing.
I use clover, yaairc, facebook messenger, GB Whatsapp, Bible, VLC, etc. Sometimes clover randomly crashes, and it doesn't handle the 8ch capcha terribly well, but other than that it's fine. I use a few other android apps too and a few bb10 apps.
Signatures have been successfully spoofed user so not sure what you're on about. You will be able to install apps after 12/31/2019.
Adam Morales
You could develop software for it?
Ryan Ortiz
I got a Q5 not so long ago. It's pretty comfy. Physical keyboard, the screen isn't fucking huge, and for some reason it's a lot less sluggish than the shitty, much newer android phone I used to use.
Jason Reyes
it's shit. literally the only reason it exists is because it's a designated topic for peons in canada to talk about
Lincoln James
Then get a real phone instead of ""smart"" spying garbage.
Even better: don't get a phone at all.
Carson Stewart
Spoof how?
Say I write a program, how do I load it without signing it?
Camden Sanchez
But wouldn't QNX be terrible for home computing, being an RTOS? On your computer now they weight the scheduler to things you're more likely to notice, like UI stuff, with an RTOS the thing is deterministically stepping through each process, which is great if you have to send a packet periodically or have a regular step time in your PID loop for hardware control so it actually does what you think it does so you still show up on the mobile network, but kind of shit for user responsiveness.
Jordan Watson
My first blackberry was the 8820, with wifi and all, it lasted a while, and since 2014 or something I'm with a Q10, it's really a solid stuff, felt many times but not a scratch. at least it still gets the job done. It's a phone, get email, I can write this post, chat on IRC, transfer photos from my DSLR with the memory card via FTP to my site, it's got a terminal, and power management really allows the battery to last for a while, so it makes me think.
What kind of degen faggot buys apple/samsungs that lasts one year?
was tempted for a passport too, but it's kind of large, and thus not much needed.
Also speaking of QNX I did work a bit with it when I was in college, studying development environments and things like that. I have my copy of RTP.6.1.0 and did a complete rip of its icons a while ago, and did it again recently.
something free software will never get.