I loved my Moto Droid Pro back in the day. I got a decent ecosystem, compact portrait qwerty package, and serviceable screen.
Your problem now is that your ecosystem is toast. Trim the fat in your development house, package a nice Android OS with some throwback GUI cute shit to your old blackberry feel, and move on with your life as a hardware player.
Love the Blackberry keyboard, but hate the OS. If I could get their keyboard on an Android or iPhone I'd be all over it. I don't like touchscreen keyboards, but since they're the only option offered on devices with an acceptable OS, I use them grudgingly. Clearly the security-first mantra that Blackberry adheres so religiously to isn't doing them any favors--as their market share, even among the security conscious, falls precipitously.
I kind of like the form factor. For me the deal-breaker is the Blackberry OS. I don't just want to be able to run Android apps (after jumping through lots of hoops) I just the phone itself to run Android (preferably stock).
> On June 18, 2014, BlackBerry announced an official relationship with Amazon.com, which will see the upcoming 10.3 update offer official access to Amazon Appstore.
Amazon's Android store is missing some things, but not much. The apps it has are more up to date than they were when I first got my Kindle Fire. I think developers are warming up to it.
I loved my Moto Droid Pro back in the day. I got a decent ecosystem, compact portrait qwerty package, and serviceable screen.
Your problem now is that your ecosystem is toast. Trim the fat in your development house, package a nice Android OS with some throwback GUI cute shit to your old blackberry feel, and move on with your life as a hardware player.