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Originally Posted by klinton
Will aplications like WhatsApp and SIGNAL run on blackberry with BlackBerry OS10 ? Does it have some kind of android emulation or is compatible ? on my old bb os 7 whatsapp says that from 1st january whatsapp will stop functioning on bb...
Blackberries are the best phones IMO, something as classy and solid as Nokia was...yet, both companies are in trouble  |
I couldn't agree more! From the engineering point of view, they are something rock solid! I have Q10 for 3,5 years, and it's been a working horse, and it has never failed so far.
BB10 system is the most secure mobile OS ever, unlike Android. It has Android virtual machine (I believe it's Android ICS), and all (99% of) Android apps work without any problems. You can also use Android version of Whatsapp, but the only downside is that it do not have real Hub integration, as all the other native IM apps have. Basically, you could either load Cobalt (which is Google Play), or if you are security paranoid, you could just use SNAP, which is basically an app to download apps off of Google Play Store.
There will be BlackBerry 10 version 10.3.3 update soon, which would probably be the last one.
All I can say is that BB10 OS is built on QNX, which is the most stable RTOS ever (had multitasking back in 1984), and it's used for nuclear plants, plants, trains, heavy machinery. For example, my phone has been turned on for 4 months, without being restarted.
Too bad BlackBerry decided to abandon the platform (officially they will license it to others).
I'm waiting for February when they will (probably) announce their last phone built by BlackBerry, which will be the real bar form qwerty ANDROID phone, unlike PRIV, which was a slider (a great phone!). If it never gets released, I will probably go with Passport Silver Edition and hope it will last another 2+ years.