This morning we told you about Blackberry’s introduction yesterday of their new operating system and two new smartphones.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) announced yesterday that its customers will soon be able to make free voice calls over a wi-fi network. The new feature will be available as a free update for existing customers. The good news comes just a couple of months before the release of the new BlackBerry 10 smartphones.
The company responsible for making BlackBerrys, Research In Motion (RIM), announced yesterday that they are currently testing the new Blackberry 10 on 50 wireless carriers around the world. They also confirmed that the new BlackBerry 10 software and phones will be released during the first quarter of next year.
Embarrassing. That single word has made up a lot of the overall feedback received after RIM uploaded this video to their YouTube page yesterday. Aimed at developers, it aims to showcase all the cool new features of the Blackberry 10 – by having a couple of dads pretend to be rockstars.
In another financial blow that the company can’t afford, RIM has been found guilty of patent infringement and has been forced to pay out $147,2 million in damages.
BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion, has had a terrible past quarter. The smartphone manufacturer is now literally hemorrhaging money and sales figures.
Celestica, the Toronto-based manufacturer that produces hardware for Research In Motion, have announced that they’ll be stopping production of BlackBerry hardware over the next three months, and charging the company $1 billion for unsold BlackBerry inventory. Between the BlackBerry 10 smartphone getting pushed back to late 2012, and new iPhone rumours, this could sort of be RIP RIM.