Yesterday we showed you the first filtered images of the BlackBerry Mercury, which will be the new and also last mobile device of the Canadian firm. The announcement was made by Jhon Chen, the CEO of the company, who did not clearly specify that it will be the last terminal manufactured by themselves, although they will continue in the mobile phone market with other companies who will develop and manufacture their devices.
Despite the numerous launches that BlackBerry is carrying out, it continues to go through a huge crisis, seeking to find the lost position in the market. That is why today we have decided to comment on the future of the company and the BlackBerry ecosystem in this article that we have titled; Is there room in the market and in our day to day for a BlackBerry?.
BlackBerry Mercury, a smartphone taken from a BlackBerry drawer
The first rumors about the BlackBerry Mercury, which could hit the market in an official way in the coming weeks, show us a device with a physical keyboard and with specifications that will make it a prestigious guest of the so-called mid-range. Nevertheless many clues lead us to think that it was a smartphone that BlackBerry had kept in a drawer, and that it has now decided to put on the market, to make it the last terminal of its own manufacture.
These things do not usually turn out too well on almost any occasion, and despite the fact that you update most of the characteristics and specifications, of a terminal created for another time, something usually stays by the way, quickly demonstrating its shortcomings. So far from what we know of the BlackBerry Mercury, we can say that it will be one more smartphone, of the many on the market, although that is with the interesting that for many always having a physical keyboard.
Here we show you the main specifications of the BlackBerry Mercury;
- 4.5-inch screen with a 3: 2 screen ratio
- Qualcomm processor with a 2GHz clock speed
- RAM memory of 3GB
- 32GB internal storage
- Rear camera with 18 megapixel sensor
- Front camera with 8 megapixel sensor
- Android operating system, probably Android 7.0 Nougat
- Physical keyboard
We are very much afraid that the BlackBerry Mercury will pass through the market without pain or glory, being a new sales failure like so many others that BlackBerry has been accumulating in recent times, but sincerely they have not done anything or almost nothing to reverse this situation .
BlackBerry are terminals of the past
Since a few years ago I decided to buy the brand new BlackBerry 8520, which all or almost all of us had at some point in our lives, I became in love with the mobile devices of the Canadian firm. At that time they were the reference in the market, thanks to their physical keyboard that allowed us to type at full speed, also benefiting from the great advantages offered by the BlackBerry operating system.
After that terminal, the BlackBerry 9300 and the BlackBerry Torch came into my life, which were just as interesting to me as my first device from the Canadian firm. Unfortunately the market changed the pace with the arrival of Android, and BlackBerry could not adapt to the new times, and it took months and months to launch BlackBerry 10 and its new devices. When they hit the market in a spectacular presentation that took place in New York by the hand of Thorsten Heins, the CEO of BlackBerry who condemned it to oblivion.
After the BlackBerry Z10 and the BlackBerry Q10, the Canadian company has been adding failures in the mobile phone market, until it reached the BlackBerry Priv, the first Android smartphone, which despite initial sales, once again became a new failure. From that moment on, we have seen BlackBerry devices parade through our eyes with hardly any interest. The BlackBerry Mercury is the last of them, which only confirms that the BlackBerry are terminals of the past.
Is there a place in the market and in our day to day for a BlackBerry?
Not long ago, in one of the many second-hand stores in my city, I found a BlackBerry Passport at a very good price that I decided to buy without thinking too much, to take a trip to the past that I hoped would be the most interesting.
Unfortunately everything was very different from what I expected and that is physical keyboards aren't what they used to be, and the BlackBerry 10 is a lacking operating system and applications that we use every day in our day to day.
My desire to remember old times did not stop there, and I managed to be able to test a BlackBerry Priv that has Android as an operating system. This device is undoubtedly at another level than those that have BlackBerry 10 installed inside, although for the price it has, we are facing a device that does not offer what is expected of it.
With all this I am increasingly convinced that there is no place for a BlackBerry, not only in the day-to-day life of most users, but also in the market, where they are still determined to launch terminals without anything that can attract attention, and opting to remove old projects that never saw the light of day. Hopefully one day Jhon Chen gathers his people and decides to launch a mobile device, with high-end features and specifications and perhaps with it and a good physical keyboard, of course with Android operating system, he can find a niche in the market and in our life.
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