BlackBerry's $450 'Classic' phone aims to bridge the past and present
25 Dec 2014 • engadget.comCombine those old-school physical attributes with the generally pleasing punchiness of the BlackBerry 10.3.1, and you’re left with a device that aims to straddle the fence between past and present.
The question is, will anyone bite?
Yes, but “anyone” is possibly a pretty small number.
CEO John Chen conceded at the company’s New York launch event that the Classic is meant at least partially to be a love letter to the remaining legions of BlackBerry faithful. Appealing to them “was the genesis of why we’re doing this,” he noted…
It’s the kind of thing that would make your heart melt (seriously) - if you’re a die-hard-take-my-BlackBerry-to-the-grave kinda person. Otherwise, meh.