[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
Well, I would lean towards RIM is gonna actually have to get in that 6ft deep hole and hope somebody will pay them to cover the expenses for somebody to shovel dirt back on them and try and do something with their IP. Webos doesn't come to mind, but somebody with enough smarts could use a lot of blackberry email's IP's and server and incorporate a nice full featured touch interface to integrate in their's. Apple mail supposedly is a poor comparison to gmail, from what i gather.

Perhaps, RIM might come with it and make nice easy to touch interface with a lot of recognizable blackberry apps and some new secure OS/system that is fairly easy to integrate in any system and not cost a lot for that integration and RIM would continue holding up the back end that would use their servers. RIM would have a head start with enterprise and even regular consumers if they could pickup a lot of customers so RIM would have enough money to sustain itself. I really don't want to see Canada lose on this. It was really hard watching Nokia swallow their pride. I also hoped WebOs would have a chance but I think it going to HP was buying a backhoe and building the coffin and throwing away the shovel. I hope now that WebOs is open sourced maybe xda and some cherry picked devs could get inside help from OEM's and develop something that will make heads turn. A nice mid to high end phone and load WebOs and a few others like Linux, android and maybe windows phone. Black could build an emulator/virtual macchine to run android and possibly windows apps inside their is. It would also be really cool if there ~5 high end spec OS'less phones on the market from a few OEM's you could buy and then go home and buy a license from Microsoft and load windows 8 on it. Or download an image of WebOs and/Android in a dual boot config and run with that. It would be cool if the market evolved into a true pocket PC market. A lot more people will gravitate to ~5" blank OS'less phones and use for work or personal with their choice of OS or be able to switch without giving up the phone.. I think the next OEM that steps with an easy to put into your network securely and cheap might have a chance if the app development is overloaded quickly. I think RIM is going to a gesture heavy OS interface ala the Nokia n9 very few of us saw. It had some nice specs all the way around and I don't remember if their was external storage. Games and media would be good for personal customers and businesses could flip a switch inside and turn it a blackberry phone of old and configure it to that business's needs and security. If it also was very battery friendly and could make it 2 full days with all the email pushing and various data synchronizing on a 2000-2500 mah battery, the legend of like how apple has used a ~1400mah battery the last 3 years and improved performance nicely each year RIM could have a chance. RIM is in the seat where it could experiment with stuff like an atrix 4g with fingerprint sensor but actually have have some serious use to it instead of it being a decoration. I've never used blackberry enough but from what I've read, and played with playbook, they could be the come from behind kid in the smartphone arena. Phones have became integral to many middle class people's lives and competition is fierce lately. Some of the competition is in the courtroom. BTW, has Motorola or Apple gained any market share in enterprises using their hardware since RIM went flushing down the toilet?

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But what if Google shuts nexus down because it becomes a hole in their wallet? I don't think it will happen but what if Google starts trying to get phones to have better battery life and it takes oled technology 3 years or so to be very comparable to how LCD sips juice. I like oled very much but I'm not in love with it. A nice LCD with some decent viewing angles will be a nice alternative. An screen comparable to visual quality like iPhone 4/4s/5 is desire able to me but I am sure that there are quite a few out there that still don't know what amoled even is and think all smart phones are LCD.

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