Ill be waiting for you.. And ill buy you.. Go rim go rim go rim..
Rumours are deferent, and the reality is a shame.
What a waste. Concentrate and perfect what you know - the physical QWERTY. Be the HERTZ or Sprint of mobile phones by concentrating on corporate accounts.
I'll just wait until bb 10 launch and see its actual performance.
They better launch it soon, or it will be too late, considering WP8 and next iphone are coming.
RIM is mainly successful in the technology of encryption and in their Keyboard technology. Their only problem is related to lack of APPS which can be solved if they will have their OS based on Android and keep their interface layer on the top. For the touch devices, they can't be the best, so their only way will be to partner with one of the best and put their technology on the top of some of these touch phones.
If they will invest in making touch phones, they will destroy any hope of their survival, and they will be down the drain.
It is bad if they disappear because they have a great technology that I respect, and which makes it possible for me to see the emails while travelling without having to pay lots of money. And, their keyboard is the thing that nobody could achieve and is hard for anybody to follow.
I had a BB Torch 9860...full touch screen..didn't miss the keyboard to be honest. It will be weird if they do away with the BB key/home button though..hope it works out for them.
I also agree with the writter who said that (RIM)Blackberry would better be bought by Microsoft, Apple or Google to benefit from a good ecosystem of a desktop OS as a basis for apps & porting. I personally am not a fan of texting so I view Blackberry as obsolete. Touchscreen is de future.
But I agree a smartphone should be a mult functional device, and ready to do what ever a user need it for.
Also have RIM the capability to manufacture tens of millions devices, if 5% of IOS and 5% of Android (and one or two WP) users should switch to Blackberry?
Any BB without a keyboard won't be for me.
WP8 itself is finding itself in a tight spot (Mango users are less than thrilled at WP7.8 hand downs), and RIM is almost a nobody in this race.
Back in 2005 when BB's were still in the game, it was about features - you know, this camera vs. that one, good music player vs. good organizer app and so on.
When iOS and Android got in, it was about apps. RIM (and MS) didn't really care at that point, and paid heavily in terms of market share.
Now, the game's changed again - now its all about the ECOSYSTEM.
iOS is fairly established here, and Google's no stranger to integration either.
And WP8 is also on the right track with the phone+tablet+PC unification.
RIM, unfortunately, still has a looong way to go.
Without Skype, front camera, 1GB RAM, and at least 1 GHz processor, it will be a miss.
sooo.. where's the front camera ??
Blackberry has this motto "Phone for Business". Obviously the motto cannot be used in the current IT era. Their motto should be Phone for Business and Pleasure". The are less people in business compared to people who are not having businesses. In other words, they are only concentrating on business people which is extremely less. Their qwerty keyboard phone are beginning to get smaller which is not fun to use.