There are a lot of Blackberry diehards that must be in panic mode as RIM has unveiled their upcoming Blackberry 10 platform to the world via full touchscreen device. Don’t fret folks! as the hardware keyboard is not going to die off. RIM has confirmed that while the first Blackberry 10 smartphone will be a touchscreen-only device, forthcoming iterations of the smartphone will feature. 

In the world of legalities, the most publicized lawsuits is undoubtedly between Samsung and Apple. The battle over intellectual property in the smartphone world got more fierce as Nokia has announced it is taking HTC, RIM and Viewsonic to court in both Germany and the United States over 45 non-standard hardawre and software patents pertaining to antenna design, power management, software. 

Fido customers meet RIM’s Blackberry Bold 9790, the smaller brother of the flagship Bold 9900. While the OS 7.0 installed is not as touch-friendly as the upcoming Blackberry 10 OS, the handset is a smooth handing device with a sleek design. It can be yours for $50 on a 3-year contract or $450 outright. The handset features a 2.45-inch display with a resolution of 480×360, Blackberry. 

Blackberry Wold 2012 kicked off this morning where journalists and the media got the first glimpse of RIM’s new Blackberry 10 operating system, formerly known as BBX. In a press release RIM stated that the toolkit is available in beta form and is available for download at Blackberry’s Developer website. As for the devices, the new Blackberry 10 OS will run on Blackberry’s. 

In the midst of RIM’s crisis, we just received new images of what is believed to be RIM’s Blackberry Messenger service (better known as BBM) running on Android. The rumor has made its rounds throughout the web in the past, but RIM was quick to squash any notion and stated they had no such plans of making the RIM exclusive service available on other platforms. However that was. 

There is no doubt that Blackberry’s struggles over the past few years have been contributed by the lack of apps and an uninspiring operating system overall. The once glorious Blackberry handsets that once plagued the earth in swarms have depleted quickly and as long as they’re sporting the same type of hardware along with a familiar form factor, things don’t look brighter. 

Research In Motion, the makers of the Blackberry smartphone that the world has come to love or hate, has taken a gradual decline over the years ever since the introduction of iOS and Android and now here in Canada, the market share has definitely taken a hit as well. The current state of Blackberry and its loyalists are in question. With RIM’s stake in the American smartphone market. 

As we have reported late last year, BASIS International slapped RIM with a trademark infringement lawsuit that ultimately led RIM to renaming the operating system to Blackberry 10. Despite RIM’s less than stellar year on the stock market and the failure to successfully launch the Blackberry PlayBook, RIM’s co-CEO, Jim Balsillie, still believes the new devices coming this year. 

According to ComScore’s recent numbers for the United States phone industry, performance over the last three months ending in November have seen some surprising changes. The MobiLens study, based on data culled from 30,000 US mobile subscribers, identifies South Korean company Samsung as the top manufacturer of both smartphones and non-smartphones (feature phones) in the US.  

We’re definitely happy that 2011 is coming to an end — not because we had a horrible year. In fact, Mobile Hotspot had a great half-year. Sadly we can’t say the same for Canada’s own Research In Motion. The company has been hit with a consistently sloping market share as well as a massive $30 billion loss in value — now worth just over $7 billion. At the time.