Blackberry could leave business

After teaching the planet to kind on small buttons, BlackBerry may shortly be feat the business of creating phones - feat fewer choices for a vocal minority still committed to phones with its once standard physical keyboard. 

Rosko aforementioned he had used BlackBerry's for regarding 9 years. 

"What I decision my fat Polish fingers have a tough time with touch-screen keyboards," he said. "So i am progressing to keep victimization this factor till i can not any longer." 

The possibility that BlackBerry would exit the French telephone business was solely bolstered Friday, once the corporate proclaimed fatal monetary results, as well as a quarterly loss of nearly $1 billion. BlackBerry had warned last week that the results would be dangerous, intensifying expectations that it'd place less specialize in handsets. 

In the past few years, most smartphone users have switched to touch-screen models, just like the iPhone, with virtual keyboards that seem on a glass screen. 

That has left few sensible alternatives for individuals like Rosko, particularly on the far side BlackBerry. 

Charles Golvin, AN analyst at Forrester United Nations agency tracks the French telephone market, aforementioned most phones with buttons were cheap models geared toward teenagers. Most use slide-out keyboards, however those add further weight and heft. He offered easy recommendation for individuals protrusive to a physical keyboard. 

Still, the possibilities that some company can attempt to obtain BlackBerry's single-digit market share square measure sensible. ted Schadler, Forester's vice chairman and principal analyst, aforementioned he expected some corporations to experiment with keyboards. 

The experiments may very well come back from the businesses that overtook BlackBerry in smartphones. 

Samsung physics, whose Android-based phones square measure a front runner in smartphone sales, has already offered phones with physical keyboards. however additional vital, it's sharply going when professionals United Nations agency were the primary adopters of the BlackBerry and United Nations agency seem to disproportionately stay its final users. This year it introduced Knox, a collection of safety features for android geared toward government and company users. 

Motorola quality, because it rebuilds itself underneath Google's possession, may also go into the keyboard phone market, too. Before the Google takeover, a number of its most well-liked android phones enclosed a slide-out keyboard.