BlackBerry 10's six business traveler features may just sway you
Skift Take
BB's only hope going forward is the huge community of business users and travelers, those who still work in the corporateland, increasingly collaborate through remote work, but would still like consumer-driven features.
Whether or not BlackBerry is going to make it in the long run, the software the company unveiled today is extremely impressive, especially if you’re a business user. It’s clear that BlackBerry (the company formerly known as Research in Motion) is doubling down on its core audience in rich countries: enterprise customers in law, finance, insurance, and government.
The BlackBerry 10 operating system has a handful of core features that are highly evolved, business-centric re-conceptions of features that barely exist in iOS (the operating system for iPhones) and Android. Watching them in action, it seems credible that the company is delivering on its goal to make phones into little computers rather than simply “mobile devices.”
BlackBerry’s global announcement of its new phones is available to stream on the web, but the company’s own short video demonstrations of the phones’ most interesting features are far more informative, so I’ve rounded them up below.
BlackBerry Messenger: video chat with screen– and document-sha
