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It's doom for Blackberry
A PUNTER LOYALTY SURVEY has revealed that more than 70 per cent of Blackberry users want to toss their toys into the bin and try something else.
Nearly 40 per cent of Crackberry users want to get an Iphone while another third want something more Android.
The survey was conducted by Crowd Science. The outfit found that once people have an Android smartphone they are almost as fantacical about keeping it as an Iphone user. About 90 per cent of each user group is planning to stick with their current brand when buying their next phone.
Asked specifically if they'd swap their present phone for Google's new Android-based Nexus One, 32 per cent of Blackberry users said "yes" compared with just nine percent of Iphone users. This figure zoomed to 60 per cent for users of smartphones not made by either RIM or Apple.
John Martin, CEO of Crowd Science, said that Blackberry users are getting restless as their current brand does not have the sexiness of the Iphone or Android devices.
Oddly enough, Iphone users are aware of other brands. More than 91 per cent know what Android smartphones are. More than 75 per cent of Blackberry users also know about Android smartphones.
The survey revealed that those who like Android gear are younger and less affluent than Iphone and Blackberry users.
Android users and Iphone users are also much more likely than Blackberry users to use their phones only for personal use. Seven per cent of Blackberry users use their phone only for business, while that category of user is minimal for the Iphone at one per cent. The survey found there are no business only users in the Android customer base.
The survey was based on a pool of 1,140 respondents. Iphone users represented 17 per cent of the respondents, followed by Blackberry users at 15 per cent, Nokia with 10 per cent, Windows Mobile at four per cent, Android at three per cent and Palm with two per cent. µ
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@brickling
you have some serious issues, are you bipolar?
youre in love with bits of plastic and metal and then tell people who do not share your views to piss off?
maybe youre a politician or maybe youre writing from a secure mental health facility with unsupervised internet access.
either way, i hope youre not allowed to reproduce - for the good of mankind!
p.s. if you dont like what i like then piss off
hahahahaha
I have a BB pearl with no internet service. I love the thing, i have had it for almost 2 years now. and cant imagine getting anything else. I dread the day when I HAVE to get a new one when this breaks. I love the keyboard, the music player, and I think the trackball is a very nice touch. I don't like the clicking of arrows or scrolling on a touch screen. I think touch screens get in hte way and are more of a novel. To anyone who wants a touch screen, piss off. Blackberrys only problem is that they are a huge brick. The pearl is the only blackberry, and for that matter, the only phone for me.
Overall this survey is pleasing on the eye as an iPhone user however less pleasing when I actually view the amount of respondents.
Some views on this article in the comments section are interesting, I have used a blackberry briefly, it was a pretty boring and dull experience.
I've never used an Android phone however I think they look excellent.
As for Palm, they have a great offering but the handset needs improvements in design.
And my iPhone? some feedback on typing would be nice, small vibrations since its touch screen. However, it has to be the best touch screen & interface i've ever used.
Blackberry have tried to go head to head with apple in the home marketplace and the public intially lapped up BB's advertising and their initial reach, however have now come to realise it was a mistake and BB should have stayed in the business sector.
As a business phone, BB over Windows Mobile any day. As pleasure? I would only recommend Android and iPhone.
Jamie
Look, some of you geezers and dudes have tried BlackBerry and say, “oh, it’s only good for email ‘push’ and for the business user because I can’t do anything else other than make calls”
First off: what BlackBerry model are you using? I’ve got a Bold 9000 and it’s the dog’s soft-dangly-bits. Email – great. PIN messaging using BB servers. Tons of apps to work with M$/Adobe files – spreadsheets et al. Movies look like something else and far better than other phones I’ve seen (including iShite). Built-in Stereo speakers that are the best quality speakers on a phone I’ve ever heard. Etc. Etc.... it’s THE business phone/system.
I use the phone for business and, despite my sausage fingers, I can still type a message far quicker than you other freaks using an iPhone – trust me!
Business = BlackBerry (period)
Bling and Accessorizing = iPhonery (period)
My next phone upgrade is a Storm 2 – sorry, but that’s final...
Lots of love and understanding,
Dave xxx
The only thing I can't do with my Blackberry is make phone calls. Every BB I've ever used makes terrible calls and has an awful speakerphone.
On the flipside, the free LG phone that came with my personal Verizon plan works great.
The Blackberry is a perfect example of "Jack of all trades, master of none."
I swapped a Blackberry for a Nokia device for personal use. The importance of Blackberry is in business use, where email push and central management of IT resources are important.
So I guess this is where the upcoming Dell Steak comes in. It looks like a micro tablet/phone that can eat a BB.
I might acutaly buy a Dell now.
For us corporate geezers, what we want don't come into it. Powers that be are 'upgrading' us from BB to Windows mobile, I'm told.
The only thing I can't do with my Black Berry is stream video. Once RIM sorts that one out, it will do everything I need. I don't want a touch screen smart phone. I already have what I need and paid a lot less for it than I would've with lPhone or Android.
IF people dont like the phones but like the email service then I'm sure RIM could compile BBconnect for the iPhones and Andriods out there. They could then use there latest FOTM toys with the service they know and love.
Though when the SLA's are bent towards lining the telco's when things go wrong and not the customers, I'd say that gmail could compete :p
that over here (in holland) every kid 15-18 wants a blackberry, my nephew dumped his iphone for one. Why? ping allows them to stay in contact easier than sms does.
Sample sizes are fairly small, and too small to tell us anything globally (e.g. less than 200 iPhone users out of 40 million worldwide). The ratio of iPhone respondents to Blackberry respondents is also not representative of any market that I know of. For this survey to have any scientific value, respondents have to be weighted for the subject market, and can't be directly extrapolated globally or to other markets.
Blackberry phones are MEGA-PHAT and have fiddly buttons made for midgets and time bandits
why do phones need buttons again? ah obsolete technology stocks need using up...