Monday, April 1, 2013

Features that can still make BlackBerry 10 outsmart competition in Business Phones Market Segment

BlackBerry 10 comeback is good but not impressive enough to compel customers who have moved on to phones from other popular brands. I will not waste my time in repeating BB10 features. Rather I will suggest a few to make them more Business Smart-er Phones:

1. Include a feature to share App only in Mobile Screen Sharing Mode so that if a person wants to just show a presentation then he can do it, without sharing his wife's continuous texts in the multi-task mode. This feature should enable sharing single or more apps but not the entire multi-mode screens so that a limited private space is still kept.

2. In BlackBerry Peek if the video is running and the BlackBerry Hub is recalled then the video should get paused automatically (This should be an ON/OFF feature).

3. In the BlackBerry Flow if the Browser could show tile-view of all the tabs that are opened then the user can easily click on any one of them that is required instead of first opening the browser and doing the hassle-job.

4. In BlackBerry Keyboard if the swipe from right to left deletes words then in the same there should be an option of undoing delete by swiping in the reverse direction i.e. left to right.

5. In the BlackBerry Balance if the work and personal apps are kept separate then the same kind of separation should be done in BlackBerry Hub so that Facebook and Twitter are separated from Corporate Social Network or Mails.

6. Picture Editing is good option but it should be enhanced with one more feature and that is to include pictures from Gallery of images into Presentations, Documents etc such that we can edit these pics to fit into these docs with simple UI strokes. This would immensely help in case somebody needs to brush up a presentation or a document.

7. Ability to view mail attachments in twin window mode so that a person can also refer the mail as well as read the attachment simultaneously.

8. A better voice recognition so that if a multi-tasking, multi-screen modes are launched in next versions of BB10x then a person can talk and listen via speaker and also do the multi-tasking on phone still maintaining an audible quality of sound, while holding the BB in his/her palm.

9. Ability to integrate Office Communicator with BB Messenger so that the message flow not stops no matter what.

10. Ability to share BB screen with a Desktop with limited or controlled access to the apps or files but with the enhanced or unique ability to drag n drop or even run compatible files on desktop.


I am in the process of thinking of more. As soon as they come I will share more can-be-added-features. Thanks for the read. 

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