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We have all looked on in growing horror as BlackBerry maker RIM continues to self-destruct, but if a new report is to be believed, the worst is yet to come. BGR is renowned for its tight connections to RIM and frequent scoops regarding the Canadian company. According to one trusted source, the upcoming Blackberry 10 platform is dead in the water.
BGR reports that the current PlayBook 2.0 OS that developers are tinkering with is almost exactly the state BB10 is in for phones. No native email, no contact management, and no BBM. The source claims that older devices like the 8700 are still better in most ways. According to this RIM employee, CEO Mike Lazaridis was not being entirely honest when he said the company was waiting for a special LTE chipset in mid 2012. They just need that long to get BB10 into a state that it can be released.
If even part of this is true, it could be the last gasp for RIM, a once dominant company. BlackBerry 10 might be unable to match even early versions of iOS and Android at launch, and at the end of 2012, there won’t be space in the market for something like that.
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kixofmyg0t
December 24, 2011 at 10:57pm
Seriously who cares about Blackberry anymore?
I knew they were out of touch with reality when they showed a video of how awesome "Blackberrys" were....except everyone in the video was using Droid Incredible 2's. Since then RIM has been on a downward spiral.
fuzz_64
December 23, 2011 at 9:54am
Maybe Lazaridis is not telling the whole truth in this case but on the other hand, the fact that they have mentioned the chipset is not available until summer and the company behind the chipset HAS NOT DENIED IT indicates to me that that is indeed the case.
RIM has already released a statement refuting the unnamed sources statements and has confirmed that the PB will receive the scheduled update in Feb with email, etc etc.
As well, a buddy of mine works at RIM and another at QNX so I've seen some of the stuff they're working on and it's QUITE impressive. We were playing Angry Birds (the PB version, not the Android version running on PB) as well as played games on VICE (Commodore 64 emulator which has been ported to PB) a few weeks ago.
They have lots of sweet stuff in the works.. let's just hope they get it released properly!
Eoraptor
December 22, 2011 at 8:56pm
let's see here, they can choose between WebOS or Android, license Winphone 7, or even Belle (the former symbian) why the hell are they waisting their resources putting out a half finnished operating system that they already know will fail without fundamental components such as email and messaging?
Carbon
December 22, 2011 at 8:16pm
If they were smart....They would just slap Android and an BBM app on their hardware and call it a day.
After all you don't make money with the OS, but with the hardware sales.
Suck up your pride RIM and let the Big G maintain and develop the OS end of things.
Charles-the-Great
December 22, 2011 at 7:31pm
RIM is just yesterdays technology and the blackberry is no good I thinking they are regeting not merging with Amazon
Holly Golightly
December 22, 2011 at 4:01pm
Whoa, what the hell? Even the phones are being stripped down? Feels like the PlayBook all over again. Gosh, we need more competition, not less. Why is RIM going through all of this madness in the first place?
LGA1156
December 22, 2011 at 3:59pm
Good thing that Web OS is now open source, they Should just use that
