
When you’re the Executive Chairman of a company
who makes a large chunk of its business surround a mobile operating
system like Google does with Android, you don’t go around using a
BlackBerry. That is, unless you’re Eric Schmidt. It was confirmed this week that Schmidt, while speaking at the
Activate conference in India to
Guardian
editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, that Schmidt uses a BlackBerry
smartphone because he likes the keyboard. If that’s not the news of the
day in the gadget universe, I don’t know what is. Though a real straight-up pull-quote has yet to be
found, it’s
been said by the Guardian that Schmidt’s desires lie in the
keyboard of the BlackBerry he continues to use to this day. Of course
there are many Android alternatives for those addicted to BlackBerry who
cannot get off the idea that they need a physical keyboard, but it’s
apparent that Schmidt will not be deterred.It’s assumed that Schmidt means the physical
keyboard when he says “the keyboard”, since the next-generation
on-screen keyboard in BlackBerry 10
being choice for Schmidt over Android’s plethora of keyboard options,
well, that’d just be too much to swallow. As it stands, BlackBerry 10 as
an OS and as a smartphone lineup has yet to hit the United States –
it’s on the way soon and very soon
With Schmidt also talking about the way we must
consider the privacy of others and how China is laying low its
society’s ability to use the web, we must also note that one of the main
reasons the Google Executive Chairman had this particular interview was
because he’d just left North Korea. There he’d been speaking as
evangelist for a more open internet in the top half of the Korean land
mass, attempting to knock some sense into the government – and whoever
else would listen – with chat about how their economy would flourish if
given the chance.
Have a peek at the timeline below for more wild and wacky adventures
of Eric Schmidt and don’t you dare leave without letting us know if
you’re thinking about tossing your Android smartphone out the window the
moment BlackBerry 10 hits your local mobile carrier!
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