Pro discontinued !!!!! AAAGGGHHH.....

[fre1102]

Motorola Announced Droid Pro successor back in August.. the Droid Pro+. Motorola announces Pro+, slightly upgraded Pro with Gingerbread - Rethink Wireless Available in Europe in Asia, I assume it will come to USA soon. I think the Pro i such a niche that they don't but a lot of advertising into it. It will just appear in stores one day.
As for keyboard phones at CES, Droid 4 got announced and I thought a few more new ones with physical keyboard. I heard on one podcast that physical keyboards will make a come back in the next couple years.

I thought the Pro+ was GSM-only.

[fre1102]

The funny thing is I've never had a Blackberry in my life and I don't plan on it. To be honest I don't think RIM will be able to make a comeback (they haven't done much for the OS). Most BB users I know (none of them businesspeople) only use the phones specifically for BBM -- a lot of them would switch to all touchscreen devices in a heartbeat if they could (and many already have).

I completely understand why the Pro is unpopular. It's top heavy and one of the ugliest looking phones to a lot of people. It's mostly about aesthetics. It has a smaller, lower res touchscreen and in this day and age people want bigger screens. It's also thick and people want thin phones that slip into their pockets. People generally prefer a sleek slab of touchscreen -- no keyboards. Look at ICS, it seems Google's pushing for phones with NO buttons.

I think we're talking precisely about the difference between consumer and profesional users. The consumers all like the BBM (that's the biggest thing I miss about my BlackBerry), and want pretty, sleek, etc.

Business users may not ever even use BBM (at least professionally), and frequently don't pick the phone they're issued--the IT department does. And that decision is usually based on what the IT cheif (or his boss likes), which is where BlackBerry seems to have it's last remaining fans. For the longest time it was about being able to get your email on the handset, but now even iOS does that, so now it's just what you're familiar with, and in my experience, to those people, a Droid is what their kid uses, and once you lose that candybar shape and pysical keyboard, the phone's just a 'toy'.

Shoot, if BlackBerry had gotten on the stick with the PlayBook, I'd still have one--I just wanted a tablet, and I wanted the phone and the tablet to play nice together. I wasn't really a BlackBerry 'fan', but Droids are only just now approaching the ability to be business devices, and even this is because I have a lot more oversight with the IT at my new job than the old one. There's no way I could have moved the old firm from BlackBerrys and its BES server to Droid.

[hal83]

For the longest time it was about being able to get your email on the handset, but now even iOS does that, so now it's just what you're familiar with, and in my experience, to those people, a Droid is what their kid uses, and once you lose that candybar shape and pysical keyboard, the phone's just a 'toy'.

Shoot, if BlackBerry had gotten on the stick with the PlayBook, I'd still have one--I just wanted a tablet, and I wanted the phone and the tablet to play nice together. I wasn't really a BlackBerry 'fan', but Droids are only just now approaching the ability to be business devices, and even this is because I have a lot more oversight with the IT at my new job than the old one. There's no way I could have moved the old firm from BlackBerrys and its BES server to Droid.

Droids AND iPhones are considered toys. I think the idea of apps crowding a screen is just a very childish looking thing in general. A kid can figure out the entire device in a few minutes, lol. At least Windows Phone 7 dares to be innovative with their anti-app, tile layout. And I think Win7 looks more professional because of that (not that I'd switch over). As for non-candybar, keyboard devices, I disagree, I mean look at the BB Torch. I read that BB is going to mainly release non-keyboard, all-touch devices in the future to directly compete with Android and Apple.

As for tablets, I'd never ever get one. My netbook is all I need. Anyway as of late BB is definitely trying to expand their devices to meet the needs of average consumers but it doesn't seem like they're getting much right. Like I said before all the businesspeople I know use iPhones so I can't comment about that aspect.

[spydergirl]

Yeah I'm starting to lose hope that Verizon will even consider our needs and preferences for those of us who will ONLY use the candybar qwerty keyboard! My upgrade is due in April and I'm so frustrated that I'm nearly ready to go back to a BLACKBERRY, which I DON'T want to do!!! I haven't seen or heard ANY hope on the horizon of an update coming to VZW for the PRO. :-(

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[tennvol]

Pro was doomed from the start. A corporate phone that couldn't sync with exchange and it also got lost in the constant flurry of phones moto constantly slings out.....seemingly a new phone every 2 months or so.

I used a Pro until my backlight stopped lighting up. Nothing I did fixed it and typing in the dark was impossible. I also needed the ability to have a high speed internet connection so I had to go to.a 4g phone with a mobile hotspot.

Im to the point where phones are getting too big to carry around. I put my Pro up against my Bionic and remember how perfect it felt to hold and carry....except for the slippery plastic back.

I would rather go to a touchscreen android then go to a Blackberry...that's just me.

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