Half the price? Not entirely accurate. The subsidized price is going from $199 to $99, but the actual price of the device is just dropping by 20% from $499 to $399. People forget the hidden extra $300.
I was surprised to see an article about a price cut with no mention of the total price of the phone.
I guess this is RIM's version of Windows Mobile 6.5...nothing spectacular, just more of the same thing we've seen for the last few years. Meanwhile iOS and Android continue to improve by leaps and bounds every year. It just doesn't make sense to take the plunge for 2 more years on a contract and be stuck with what already feels like a dated phone, and miss out on iPhones 6 and 7 and Android 3.0+ phones.
It never hit the front page when it was announced, but this is the first BlackBerry with WebKit.
Apple has never needed to cut the price of the iPhone in half like that. ... Oh wait. remembers 2007