Samsung's Galaxy Q to challenge the BlackBerry in the U.S.?

By on Jun 18, 2010 at 1:41 PM
Rumor June 18, 2010

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According to one of the Korea Time’s sources, Samsung is preparing an Android smartphone designed to go head-to-head with the BlackBerry in the U.S. Said to have a form factor similar to the BlackBerry but with the addition of a touchscreen display, KT’s insider claims that Samsung is negotiating with AT&T and Verizon to have the phone on the market before the year’s end. Beyond the name Galaxy Q, nothing else is known about the phone. Samsung is hoping to make significant gains in smartphone marketshare through 2010 with a goal of shipping 18 million devices, although it seems quite a lofty goal considering the popularity of smartphones from Apple, HTC, Motorola, Nokia and RIM.

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  • xclntgig

    It will be a short fight…..

  • Hhkkjf

    Samsung is a wana be, stick to low end phones

  • Mack Simmons

    Samsung tried this a few years ago. It was called Jack. And it wasn’t worth crap.

    Honestly, Samsung would be better off developing Bada and making it an enterprise-friendly competitor to the BB OS instead of offering another Android phone that will struggle to compete against other Android phones, much less a BlackBerry original.

    • gquaglia

      Due more to Win Mobile, then the device.

  • jkanef

    There is no competition if you don’t have BBM. Thousands of non-enterprise users (read: high school and college kids) buy Blackberry for this feature alone. Without it, you just have any other smartphone.

    • gquaglia

      BBM is like Nextel’s direct connect. A passing fad, that will soon fall out of favor.

      • jkanef

        We can all certainly hope so. There’s always the possibility that someone else somehow does the same thing better. Either of these scenarios would spell the end of BBM’s stranglehold.

  • Heathen

    Though I think Blackberry needs to start innovating, I have my doubts that Samsung is the one to provide the galvanizing impetus.

    Soon the Bold in my pocket will be replaced with a NexusOne or some other Android set, unless Blackberry can get something out that overcomes the severely dated nature of some of the features on their current generation of devices.

  • Bradley

    it’s not that there aren’t any devices to beat blackberries with pure features like the storage, camera features, apps, etc, but blackberry has one thing that separates it from the rest, and that’s it blackberry messaging service. nokia is trying with ovi contacts, but that comes nowhere near to millions of blackberries hooked up to rim

    • chet stovepiper

      ahem google talk

      • tom

        You still need to login first. With BBM, you don’t need to login. It’s instant on.

        I love BBM

      • Joe

        Yes, you have to log-in initially, but as long as you select “log-in automatically” that’s pretty much it. My ID logs on automatically with battery pulls and even OS upgrades.

  • JoshD4

    it amazes me how little people know about blackberry and what makes them great. compression folks it’s all about compression

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • iamajimm

    this could explain the bb torch (bb slider). keyboard and touch screen, hmmm. and for all who don’t know , bbm really is ‘da bomb.

  • Tdot34

    People don’t buy BlackBerry’s for looks, feel or form factor… people buy BlackBerry’s because of security, BBM, push email, data compression and a host of other things that RIM offers due to BIS/BES. Something no other smartphone offers.

    • gquaglia

      Businesses buy BBs for those reasons. Most consumers could give a shit about any of that crap except for BBM. And that is a fad that won’t last forever.

  • Benjamin

    This has been what I was waiting for. Android 2.2 with Blackberry’s form factor. If they make the keyboard half as good as RIM’s, I’m sold.

    • Supersonic FTMFW

      But you’re not their market. Tech geeks are not BB users.

  • rederikus

    Oh really, do they now.

    Are they going to re-create blackberry.net, BIS/BES, multiple models, BBM, 2 year warranties and the phenomenal level of security that BlackBerry hold title to?

    Doubt it. This will be a touch screen look alike. A sort of KIRF +1.

  • Jay

    Its not like RIM is standig still either. They are putting billions into R&D so expect more from them.

    • gquaglia

      Hahahahahaha, are you kidding? RIM’s OS looks the same way it did 2 years ago.

      • Tdot34

        Apple’s OS looks the same way it did 3 years ago…

      • Jake

        lol nice.

      • johnny

        google talk always logs off!!

      • badonkadonk

        RIM is in a real bind though, because their typical customer is business, and business people want consistency. I am happy that every new BB I pick up is consistent with the last and that I know “where stuff is”. This is the same problem as MS had with Vista – it was lipstick on a pig from the enterprise perspective, and they had to keep XP alive significantly longer than they intended to in order to “fix” vista with 7.
        Consider that most devices launched with BBOS 4.6-4.7 saw a 20-30% battery and performance improvement when upgrading to 5.0 – sure the theme was almost 100% identical, but under the hood RIM re-wrote and optimized most of the OS in order to fix bugs and boost power savings. There were several new features added to core apps as well, such as multiple calendar sync, Groups in BBM, barcodes in BBM, threaded messages in BBM, better HTML email handling, etc… The end user sees their OS as ”
        outdated” because it’s not shiny and doesn’t jiggle – those things are completely superficial and not representative of the work that goes into the foundation of the OS and the capabilities it has. Looking at the promos for OS6.0, it seems RIM’s response is “you want jiggle, we can do that – look, we replaced all our menu lists with colorful icons! Your short menu is now a grid! overlays with transparency!” And hey, if that’s what the greater populace wants to make the OS seem fresh and new and “made this decade” then, whatever, give’er. But under the hood, the OS6.0 and OS5.0 will not be substantially different, because 5.0 is already very solid. I’m hoping they plan to update their media apps to allow larger video recording and maybe video editing, and support for 3D gaming is a must IMO, but otherwise the features they have on the docket (improved browser, etc) seem good enough for me.

    • MikeD

      I agree

    • Supersonic FTMFW

      Damn straight. The Storm 2 is the absolute shiznit. Hahahahaha

  • Joey

    Many insightful posts here. As many have said, RIM devices are business devices before all else. Though Apple and Android will become bigger threats as they mature, RIM is de facto for enterprise.

    That hamstrings them when they try to make a play for consumers, as they’re saddled with all of the architecture needed for a business device. To that slows development cycles and innovation. To generalize, enterprise users and the supporting IT teams don’t want to deal with, say, big OS changes each time. Entertainment and fun — key to consumers — isn’t near the same priority for enterprise. “Get out of the way and let me do my job.”

    Personal experience: they are passable consumer phones, but nothing to write home about. But the few times I’ve needed to really use mine in a business situation, it’s been surprisingly effective.

    Samsung would have a much easier time attacking RIM on the consumer/small-business front than on the enterprise front.

  • http://www.fembattle.com/ catfight video

    I bever understood the hype about the blackberry. I like my iphone much better then i ever did my blackberry.

  • Todd

    Isn’t Facetime a video version of BBM?

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