BlackBerry is looking towards a future where you will carry one device for all your computing needs. BlackBerry CEO, Thorsten Heins, recently told Reuters the company sees BlackBerry 10 as a new mobile computing platform beyond smartphones and tablets.
BlackBerry's marketing person, Frank Boulben, says we will dock our BlackBerrys to a keyboard and monitor.
The market is clearly moving this way in one form or another. The recently announced Ubuntu phone clearly wants to be your only device. Apple's products already allow external bluetooth keyboards, although there is no mouse support yet.
Can BlackBerry pull this off before its competitors? Will BlackBerry 10 be a good enough platform to allow you to dump your laptop? Only time will tell, but they seem to be on the right track.
"The architecture we have built is true mobile computing architecture. It's not a downgraded PC operating system. It is a whole new innovation built from scratch. It's built for mobile."
BlackBerry's marketing person, Frank Boulben, says we will dock our BlackBerrys to a keyboard and monitor.
"The vision is going to start to materialize this year," he said. "You will be able to plug the (Z10) device into a docking station at the office and then all you need is a keyboard, a mouse and a screen. Combined with cloud services this would mean you don't need a laptop or a desktop."
The market is clearly moving this way in one form or another. The recently announced Ubuntu phone clearly wants to be your only device. Apple's products already allow external bluetooth keyboards, although there is no mouse support yet.
Can BlackBerry pull this off before its competitors? Will BlackBerry 10 be a good enough platform to allow you to dump your laptop? Only time will tell, but they seem to be on the right track.