• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • Archives

RIMarkable

The Unofficial BlackBerry Weblog

  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Rumor Mill
You are here: Home / BlackBerry / Does it really matter why BlackBerry 10 devices are delayed until late 2012?

Does it really matter why BlackBerry 10 devices are delayed until late 2012?

December 23, 2011 by Robb Dunewood 4 Comments

On Research in Motion’s Q3 Fiscal 2012 earnings call, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis announced that BlackBerry 10 smartphones would be delayed until late 2012 because the company is waiting on new dual-core, dual-mode, LTE chipsets that won’t become available until mid 2012.

Yesterday, however, BGR released an exclusive report citing a high-ranking RIM employee claiming that BlackBerry 10 devices aren’t delayed because RIM is waiting on a new chipset, but, because BlackBerry 10 devices don’t work.

Research in Motion responded in an official statement stating that the anonymous claims are inaccurate and uninformed reiterating that the delay is due to chipset availability and any suggestion to the contrary is simply false.

Honestly, does it really matter why BlackBerry 10 is delayed?

The sad state for Research in Motion is that they company had to immediately respond to the BGR report because it, even if improbable, sounds awfully plausible.  The fact of the matter is that Research in Motion won’t offer a smartphone on par with the iPhone 3G or Android 2.0 until late next year.

Consumers won’t care if the delay is because RIM is waiting for processors to power their phones that don’t yet exist or if the prototypes RIM are working on don’t actually work.  What they do care about is being able to get a phone that doesn’t seem inferior to the one next to it on the display shelf, and, sadly, this will be the case for RIM until at least late next year.

 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: BlackBerry Tagged With: BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry 10 Delayed

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Mike Andrews says

    December 23, 2011 at 9:10 am

    After readings RIM’s response, I kind of came to the same conclusion.  Why does it really matter why BBX is delayed?  My plan came up in Nov. but I was going to hold off to get a BBX phone in February.  Now, I just asked SantaWife to get me a Droid Nexus for Christmas and I did that before the BGR report came out so it is like RIM refuting it would have mad a difference.

    Reply
  2. Sam Ritner says

    December 23, 2011 at 10:01 am

    No, It really doesn’t matter.  As consumers continue to buy iPhones, Android phones, and WP7 phones instead of BlackBerry devices, the last thing they are thinking about is why the BlackBerry still hasn’t caught up.  They just know that it hasn’t and buy something else.

    Reply
  3. Anonymous says

    December 23, 2011 at 10:43 am

    Delayed or not, BGR often reports stories from unnamed 3rd party sources which should always be taken with a grain of salt anyway, no matter if its Apple, RIM or Android as subject

    BGR’s report is boarderline at best. I’ve watched TMZ, have you?

    Reply
  4. Gerry Quaglia says

    December 26, 2011 at 11:40 am

    RIM has already lost the consumer market in the US.  By the time BBOS 10 comes out, no one will care unless they basically give the device away.  Even then I see no way back for them.  

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Like What you See?

If you're serious about your business, the Aspire theme is the way to go.

Recent Posts

  • The Priv…..You Better Market It!!
  • BB10… A Slow Death?
  • The Day BlackBerry Forced Me To Leave BlackBerry
  • BlackBerry Hank Says Goodbye
  • Get A 10% Discount Code On A New BlackBerry Silver Passport

Copyright © 2021 · News Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in