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starting from the end of last year, because i had a lot of money (meaning that my family gave me more living expenses during my postgraduate period than when i was an undergraduate), i started to try to get access to funds, and i made a little money by riding on the success of nvidia. although i don’t have much money, the positive feedback from my investment makes me more motivated to get in touch with finance-related knowledge.
in addition to watching serious popular science, i also watched some movies related to the 2008 financial crisis and wall street. in the movie, wall street elites are often seen taking out blackberry phones from their suit pockets and tapping the physical keyboard to reply to emails and text messages.
"in the cloud" (2009)
moviethe picture evoked my vague memory of the blackberry. i generally knew how brilliant it once was, and even former us president obama couldn't put it down, but i had never even seen it in the real world.
before smartphones became common in my home, my mother usedsharpmy father used a flip phone, but he later changed it to a motorola. OPPO a non-smartphone, the aunt who lives with us usessamsunganycall. in short, there is no blackberry.
blackberry just passed by me in my childhood. until its complete decline, i never had the chance to see a blackberry mobile phone. my only impression is from technology media articles and videos that blackberry launched the priv and then sold its mobile phone business to tcl. tcl launched keyone and key2, and then the blackberry brand disappeared from the vast sea of computers.
until i bought a blackberry classic from the seafood market.
▍as the name suggests, the appearance is classic enough
blackberry classic, also known as blackberry q20, was released in 2014. this was a year of life and death for blackberry.
due to the rapid rise of ios and android and the rich software ecosystem they brought, blackberry's market share has declined sharply after 2010. the situation is worse than at that time.nokiaeven worse. this blackberry q20 is equipped with blackberry 10 os (bb 10) developed by blackberry.
blackberry smartphone global market share (2009-2016)
blackberry also knows that the wave of android systems is unstoppable, so bb 10 on blackberry q20 supports android 4.3 virtual machines, allowing users to install android applications. however, the strange screen ratio, the performance loss and increased power consumption caused by the virtual machine made the blackberry q20 full of glitches when running android applications, causing both heat and lag.
but precisely because bb 10 had little software and poor compatibility from beginning to end, under the trend of "compiling exams" and "postgraduate exams" ten years later, blackberry turned into a "network-free machine."
although i didn’t buy it for the postgraduate entrance examination, i actually feel that i have become a little addicted to social software recently. so i hope that the q20 can replace a small part of the functions of the main phone, while blocking countless push notifications from the main phone. this "small part" was not what i had planned, because before i got it, i had no idea which services could still be used normally on the blackberry q20.
▍after installing various applications, i kept these few
an rss subscription application that can synchronize the rss feed on old reader after logging in. it is the only application that can implement the normal login function after using it for two days. most articles can be opened normally, but the website layout will basically collapse. after turning on reader view, the interface looks much cleaner.
you can also take a look at my pie
a podcast application, but most programs cannot be downloaded normally. later, i looked through the crackberry forum and found that it seems that the feed addresses of many podcasts have changed from http to https in recent years, and bpod cannot download audio from https.
internet radio allows you to listen to some of the live broadcast radio stations around the world. barely usable.
an e-book application that can read .epub format makes it feel like a middle school student secretly reading a novel.
as mentioned just now, bb 10 os supports android virtual machines, and the merchant also pre-installed several android applications when selling it to me. but i have no intention of messing around with android apps on the q20, so i didn’t delve into how to install qq, wechat and other apps. in the past two days, i have only used the old versions of netease cloud music and ximalaya fm pre-installed by merchants. you can use these two to listen to podcasts and music, but they are a bit laggy.
the reason why blackberry was sought after by wall street elites in the past was partly because blackberry could send and receive emails, but this function seems to be unavailable at present.
i tried adding a gmail account directly, but google blocked the login because the device was too old. switching to imap/pop mode to log in, it seems that google has recently turned off the "log in on low-security devices" function and cannot connect. i don't use any other brand of email, and other email addresses may work just fine.
in the built-in app, all servers related to maps, weather, and blackberry id have been shut down. native facebook, twitter, linkedin, youtube, box (a document sharing software), dropbox, and evernote have all stopped supporting. later, volunteers developed face10 (facebook), reddit in motion (reddit), bird10 (twitter), bbtube (youtube), and even third-party clients for dis10 (discord), which has only become popular in recent years, for the bb 10 system. but it is currently not available for normal use.
the only built-in apps that can be used normally are adobe reader and docs to go (a three-piece office suite that can read/edit words and excel, but can only read ppt).
although there are installation tutorials just by searching online, since you have seen this, i might as well briefly explain them.
download blackberry 10 desktop software on your pc. after installation, blackberry link and blackberry blend will appear. during the installation, i encountered a request to log in to the blackberry id and click skip. the server has been shut down. after installation, you don’t need to worry about anything.
install dbbtool, open it and connect to your phone. if you have set a lock screen password, log in at the bottom to unlock it. then click installer-add - select the installed .bar file (multiple selections possible) -install.
copy the apk file to your phone and install it directly on your phone.
you can find it by searching on google, and volunteers have compiled a public table with commonly used application names and application introductions.
if you don’t want to go through the hassle, there are also people selling them on youyuubaobao, especially apks of domestic applications.
▍48 hours later…
over the past two days, the app i used the most was kaktus, but i simply felt that watching current news on old devices felt inexplicably time-consuming.a sense of time travel.
on the second day, i also tried to go out with q20door, no mobile phone card is inserted, only wi-fi hotspot is used to connect. while watching the news on the subway, someone occasionally took a second look at this "weird" mobile phone.
if you are not looking for the "classic" appearance of the q20, but really want to read books and news, passport seems to be a better choice. not only does it have a larger screen, but it also has a snapdragon 801 processor, which should perform better when running android apps.
when i wrote this, i discovered that the most classic and important physical keyboard of blackberry mobile phones was not even mentioned a word in the experience.
yes, without social media and email support, the physical keyboard seems to be dispensable for blackberry phones. i plugged in the sim card and used the keyboard to send a text message to my main account. i guess i had the same experience as the wall street elites.
the text messages you send are on the left side, and the avatars on the right side are sent by others, which is contrary to the logic of commonly used social software today.
author: chuhe
editor: tp
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