RIM may have be hanging onto its laurels for too long but they have given the industry some hope with its much needed and highly anticipated BlackBerry 10 as it is a few months away. The dark clouds haven’t passed just yet. The company’s fiscal second quarter saw it generate $2.9 billion in revenue, a slight gain over the previous quarter, while still losing a net $235 million..
Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins believes that BlackBerry has a good chance at taking the no. 3 spot in the platform war, “We have a clear shot at being the no. 3 platform in the market. Carriers want other platforms. And we’re not just another open platform running on another system. We’re BlackBerry.” Heins as the head honcho around the Waterloo, Ontario, said that.
RIM held its BlackBerry Jam event today in San Jose, California, and was one of the most anticipated events of the year for the Waterloo loyalists. Thorsten Heins took the stage and immediately thanked the millions of devoted BlackBerry users for their loyalty, patience and understanding through this difficult rebuilding and transitional period. After minutes of talking about how great the.
RIM with it’s once dominant line of BlackBerry smartphones have taken a hit in terms of market share and have almost fallen out of the race. However, Waterloo, Ontario, is still looking to re-enter the marketplace with a bang with its much needed BlackBerry 10 operating system. We have seen the BlackBerry Dev Alpha devices that was given out to app developers months ago and we can.
RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Jam sessions have been a huge success for developers as they get sneak peaks inside the upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS, potentially scoring Dev Alpha devices. Numerous cities have been sold out, including Toronto and Montreal. However, new dates have been announced, including a couple Canadian cities. - Kitchener-Waterloo (Hometown of RIM) will be happen on August 23rd -.
We’re still some time away from seeing RIM’s BlackBerry 10 devices but for now the Bold 9900 remains king. The QWERTY-touchscreen handset was originally released in black but Rogers released its albino sibling a few months ago, making them the first Canadian carrier to release a white Bold 9900. TELUS will be launching the white version soon as well, which will run at $99.99.
Mobilicity has released the Blackberry Curve 9320, the first ultra-affordable entry-level Blackberry that has been released with the BBM dedicated convenience button. The handset is currently available with Virgin Mobile for $149.99 as a “special introductory no-contract price” for “Dads and Grad” and will be available “while supplies last”. It will however,.
The newest baby Blackberry that was launched internationally is come to Canada on Monday, June 4th. Virgin Mobile will unleash the entry-level Curve 9320 and it’s coming packed with a dedicated BBM button. The price was originally $300 but now the company has decided to mark down the price to an affordable $150. The handset is a derivative of the classic Blackberry Curve 8500 and Curve.
Research in Motion has come out of the courts victorious — this time on the better side of a court ruling that grants the Blackberry-maker the right to use the BBM acronym to descritbe its popular Blackberry Messenger software. The lawsuit was filed in December of last year by BBM Canada, a broadcast industry group, that has owned the BBM trademark back more than 60 years. In related.
Just as most of the industry was sure that RIM was a sinking ship, Toronto-based Juice Mobile is here to prove us wrong with some new Canadian mobile stats. The statistics are based on publisher ad impression levels and after looking at the charts, clearly the Blackberry market share loss has been exaggerated and that Android is actually taking a piece of the cake from Apple. According to.
