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hey what's up guys I'm Kay PhD here fun fact people still use BlackBerry's a recent poll from the boy genius report showed that the current u.s. usage share of smartphones for blackberry is 1% it was measured from mobile web data usage which means basically in layman's terms that 1% of all the phones that are going on the internet nowadays are blackberries but how much is that really well there are 300 million people living in the United States and roughly 115 million of those people in 2012 are smartphone owners and will call blackberry smartphones for this so one percent of these hundred fifteen million smartphone owners are blackberries that means there are 1.15 million people using blackberries today in the United States that's a lot of people now taking a look at this chart it shows that as recently as October 2011 more than 5% of people using smartphones were blackberries so now that's more than a 75 percent drop-off in just less than a year but there's still a float there's still a million of them why so many well you have to consider the fact that a lot of the people who are using blackberries are people who got them because of enterprise that's a huge market that Blackberry and rim used to hold most people who are getting jobs that give out phones they give their employees of blackberry to use and if you want to use the phone for personal use you can buy another one but a lot of employees are getting BlackBerry's for free to use for their business if I had to guess I'd say that's about 75% of the blackberries that are being used in the US which leaves about 250,000 people who are using blackberries by choice or because they can't afford anything else or they're locked into a contract right now some of these people are really difficult to understand like I can understand if your business forces you to use a blackberry for business and you can't really afford anything else or if you use a second phone for more personal use but if you're one of the maybe hundred or 150,000 people that chooses to use a blackberry over anything else for the price that's confusing to me did you know that in the United States on Verizon the BlackBerry Bold 99 costs the same as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus here here's a little graphic I put together very short one that summarizes the state of research in motion the company that's behind blackberry I kid a kid rim you're doing alright okay you got a million people that's solid here look I have a blackberry with me right now I promise I don't use any other devices it's just the one that I happen to prefer it's a neat little device it's very pocketable I have this other random phone here don't know how it got here but it it fits in the screen of this other device it's how pocketable it is and it has a keyboard and it has a camera on the back I think that's a 1 megapixel camera um the screen is about an inch or two maybe that's all you really need is a little keyboard right here you can hear the clicks there very tactile and stuff and that's what it's all about with blackberries isn't it look at its hefty it's the bulk you need either way I'm back to doing regular videos guys in case you haven't noticed I'm back from my one-week break thanks for watching this video if you enjoyed it feel free to give it a thumbs up as that does help out a lot and subscribing if you want to see more videos and of course your comments all going to be answered in the comment section right below that like button so I'll talk to you guys in the next video thanks for watching you