Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by afandian on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:31AM (#28521874)

I'm typing this from my Unihertz Titan Pocket, which was very successfully crowd funded recently. It's a good little phone. Prior to that I had a Blackberry Key2 whinch was pretty much the perfect Android phone IMHO. I have a Gemini PDA which is a great concept but the hinge isn't practical.

Before that a blackberry Passport which ran BBOS. Loved it too, at the time.

These devices do exist, and the niche is strong enough to support a small market segment.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by myself248 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:47AM (#28523915)

I've been drooling over the Titan, but the lack of an AOSP-derived ROM for it is an absolute blocker. I do not trust manufacturer's firmware one iota, no matter what, and this is only getting worse over time.

The best thing Unihertz could do in my mind would be to dump a bunch of support and money at LineageOS and get their phones supported. Especially the one with the DMR walkie talkie; the lack of third-party support for those is crippling them.

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