In a new video posted to YouTube as part of the BlackBerry Enterprise Technical Expert Series, David Arnold, Senior Enterprise Solutions Manager at BlackBerry, and Nicholas Barretta, Devices Sales Engineer at Google, talk about the partnership between BlackBerry and Google and the work they are doing together.
As noted on the Inside BlackBerry for Business blog:
The partnership between BlackBerry and Google brings together the leader in mobile security with the world's most popular mobility platform. Enterprises are embracing the Android platform to transform their business through mobile innovation, and the complementary solutions delivered by BlackBerry and Google accelerate that change while ensuring compliance with corporate security policies.
The world has embraced Android. No other platform delivers the range of choice and flexibility for deploying a rich mobile experience to workers across the enterprise. Google and the Android for Work ecosystem rely on the strong partnerships they have with enterprise mobility management (EMM) providers, application developers, service and connectivity providers, and device manufacturers. BlackBerry's partnership with Google covers all aspects of the Android for Work ecosystem. This is unique in that it gives BlackBerry the opportunity to influence and deliver the most advanced EMM solution for managing and securing Android for Work.
If you're looking to learn more about how BlackBerry cover all aspects of the Android for Work ecosystem, be sure to check out the full Inside BlackBerry for Business blog post. If you know all you need to know and want to give BES12 a try with Android for Work, you can sign up for a free trial right here.
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Latest BlackBerry Enterprise Technical Expert video takes a look at bringing Android to Work with BES12
Sounds great..however What's app just announced they will no longer be supporting Blackberry platform after December 2016.....as a customer who prefers blackberry...Different commonly used apps no longer support blackberry, forcing users to go with samsung or iphone... I want to stick with blackberry but If apps keep doing this as have pandora and score app...I will be forced to leave blackberry. Please reach out to them and collaborate on continued support.
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I've met the guy on the left, good bloke!
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Great news. :)
Typed using my QNX powered BlackBerry Classic running 10.3.2.2876 on WINDmobile HSPA+
This looks like what happened in the late 50's Nasa needed top aircraft engineers for the space industry,so the US & Canadian governments had the world's most advanced fiter jet cancelled & destroyed. Well Google needs top technicians to improve there operating systems , so let's supposedly work with BlackBerry & eventually have them taken over & now have the top technicians they need to improve Googles operating systems & sales.
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It's too bad Android is a incompetent platform for work.
Rocking a Z30
This is an excellent combo. Have it rolled out to 100+ users.
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What about BB10?
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BB10 should be the platform of choice.
Rocking a Z30
Google, just give us a chance of a coming android runtime update please!
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Sounds scripted.
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I don't know anyone in the business world that uses Google. I believe that this is a set back Windows 10 Microsoft edge it the direction I would be heading.
I'm glad I'm not the only only person who thought this video was embarrassing.
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I've had toast drier than this video.
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With a video/presentation like this, it is hard not to see the end for BB10. Unfortunately.
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Well, Chen can't sell any BlackBerrys for him and his room of spies who like to "kick ***" for the cops. Next best thing is to get BES on other platforms so he can continue his shenanigans.
Don't think for a second they can't look at BES or BBM Protected. There is a reason Obama's phone is a modified Knox hardened S4. After what Chen did to Hillary he isn't taking any chances on Chen. And anyone still using any form of BlackBerry controlled form of communication deserves whatever happenes to anything Chen deems worthy of one or more of a dozen governments to have.
Keep in mind he not only honors government requests he actively plays cop/spy.
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You do realize that the President's new phone isn't a S4 right? It can't even text, send or receive emails, and etc. It's pretty much only for calls. Yeah, that's some secure smartphone minus the smart
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How does Priv = Privacy again?
Oh, it never did. Sorry.
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Priv is short for "privy"
And that crap stinks
While BB10 is short for "failure."
*ME173X
Have a Z30 and a Priv. There both great. Stop hating on the Priv. It's only flaw was it's price. And sometimes delete pictures when zooming out after zooming in. At least BlackBerry is exploring there options because 99 in 100 ppl don't buy there s#?t. One thing they need to do is market and somehow convince the sales reps not to recommend other products when you inquire about a BB...
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Boring, at 2:03 I had to cancel the video. You clearly see th lack of marketing all around BlackBerry, you should make it interesting for a customer to bare a 5 minute video to learn something new... smh..
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This is not the BlackBerry that we all knew. That's Ok. But after all what is clear to me is that all phones are first and foremost personal devices and if companies want employees to use phones for work they need to respect that principle first. BlackBerry lost sight of this fact... now it must partner with Google, but it's role has changed. No longer research in motion.
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Now they have motion sickness.
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The blackberry presentation looks like amateur hour. First, what has been described should have been available in bb10 Balance. 3 years later, The Google guy gets to showcase it as if it's something new. The Google guys asks the bbry guy, "so what does BlackBerry bring"?! And all I hear is what one _could_ add to Android, not like a partner recommendation from The Google.
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Amateur hour was over in 2011, wasn't it...? ;-P
• There's a Crack in the Berry right now... •
I told the Padre I like it here. Fantastic then!
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More discouraging news that BlackBerry is going to abandon it's premier OS. I don't want to use anything but BB10. I wish my laptop ran on BB10. I wish BlackBerry would partner with a PC manufacturer to make secure, productive laptops.
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I want all my electronic devices powered by QNX/BB10. Who's with me?
I think Roku has a nice OS too. The OS in my Roku TV reminds me a lot of BB10.
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BB guy's glasses kept sliding down his face and he was too afraid to keep fixing it so he just let them slide down and android guy looked like a 16 yr wearing his dad's suit.
Hahahahaah lol, I concur
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Oh c'mon. These guys are geeks, not fashion models.
Then someone else needed to tell them that knew better and dress them properly rather than it looking like making the video was left to those two guys. A video major at a local collage would have done a better job.
And tilting his head further and further back, lol. Then there's an obvious cut and they're back to normal - probably when whoever was filming stopped and had him fix it.
LOL
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A very enlightening video. Seems to me there are two basic requirements for BBRY employees.
1/ Use “absolutely” in every second sentence.
2/ Spend more work time with Google employees than with BBRY own staff.
●BlackBerry Priv runs the Google. But who runs BlackBerry?●
Absolutely.
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And look for a new job on the weekends.
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I would rather BlackBerry lead with bb10 devices but when android has more than eighty percent of the smartphone market it makes sense to go where the money is.
Hopefully the lower priced androids they are releasing later this year will provide enough revenue for them to continue making bb10 devices for those of us that prefer the bb10 platform.
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Very unlikely they continue BB10 if android takes off. Too few bb10 customers and too expensive to maintain the OS long term. But that is also true if android does not work out.
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Both options will never happen
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Why does it seem like this so called "deal" between BlackBerry and Google is one sided. I only see Android getting the benefit while BlackBerry and Chen are just on their knees giving that 1, 2 suck and blow. Am I missing something here?
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The only thing Blackberry in all this is the sign behind their heads.
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It seems like Google is helping promote and give credibility to BB's extra secure take on android.
...because it is one sided, anyone who honestly though doing any kind of deal with the devi...er I mean Google was to be mutually advantageous is a fool...and that goes double for Chen...but I think he's just in it for the pay cheque anyways...
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I'm pretty sure Google will buy BB before too long. They are getting so cozy already. This would be a perfect way for google to make a real entry into government and corporate markets, and to do so with more credibility. What BB has done with Android makes this a sure thing IMO.
Rather, BlackBerry to buy Google. The way they have been buying...
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Is this a darn sales pitch for Android!!!
I tuned out 1:12 in as I could stand hearing all that Android promotion to a BlackBerry person!! Talk about rubbing salt in the wound and then kicking it!!!
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It is the new reality. Deal with it.
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Done with it... ;-)
(nope, really, it's going to engulf us, haha...)
• There's a Crack in the Berry right now... •
You should have hung on longer.. it does get better.
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Now if they can just make money like Google, we'd be in great shape!
Long live BlackBerry!
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The best BlackBerry is passport
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Only in your opinion.
Nope.
*ME173X
I agree the passport is a great phone should have the same speck as the Note 6 coming out they are still lacking akiller device
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The best blackberry till date is the passport except for the lack of apps in the ecosystem. Priv is so buggy and it really shows. The BlackBerry bold 9900 was the best in the OS7 category. While in Bb10, its the passport. Now that's just my opinion.
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"To Hades with you Kratos " "YOU FIRST"
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Why is it so buggy?
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The choppy aspect is the screen share not the phone itself. Screen share takes images of what the device sees and it isn't the best fps. This is simular to screen scaring a desktop to a co-worker.
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Good stuff.
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