RIM announces the launch of BBX, the 'future' of the company

The future of this company is non existent.

I think it is too little too late. OS is a nice thing, but the hardware is spotty at best. I had a BB for a few years and was sick and tired of having too many issues. I think BB and Nokia was the standard in the last decade, but times have changed, and they have not.

As long as they keep making phones with those irritating keyboards I wont even take a second look.

Their hardware sucks...and on the rare occasion that they make half-decent hardware like on their 7" tablet, they go and screw it all up by locking the device down so it can only go online by tethering to a blackberry phone. If this company wants a future, they need to start making devices that people want instead of devices that carriers want. They also need to give their phones a lot more power, they need to open up the OS considerably, and they need to blatantly steal the best ideas from Android and iOS. These are things that the old-school management can't even consider; as long as the company has a chance they will continue down the same path...and by the time they realize they have to make changes, it will be too late.

So what is a decent smartphone recommendation? I've had BB for about 4-5 years now and my grandson's iPhone browser is done loading while my BB is still looking and waiting to load! Mine is the Torch 9800. Not interested in iPhone at all. My use is: e-mail, news, stocks, and quick map look ups when on the road, texting on occasion, camera use rare, games (eh. brick breaker during a 10-100) otherwise not so much.

So with that basic profile I'm sure there are a lot of gear-heads here that can provide a starting point for me to look into. Appreciate the talent here thanks ladies & gents.....