News - RIM growth lags behind expectations

[HEXUS]

BlackBerry maker posts pleasing sales growth but fierce competition in the smart phone market damages its market share

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[Infinite]

Make your own android phone?

[Barrichello]

Experts fear the QWERTY keyboard-based handset may lose out to touch screen technologies such as the Apple iPhone, which also provide plenty of screen space for users to watch films, play games and view applications

Please god no.

I notice that they making a new model now http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/b...-like-the-sli/ to feature both Touch screen and a sliding keyboard.

Some of us want to keep QWERTY!!! Personally don't want tons of touch screen apps/games, just something to pick up/write the odd email and god forbid make/receive a phone call (something even the new iphone seems to have problems with)

[Rob_B]

Fnarr Fnarr.......Rim growth...



I'm so sorry.

[Brewster0101]

There are alot of people that won't go to a touch screen phone because they require or want to have a proper qwerty keypad - I am one of them.

Blackberry need to get that Bold 9800 out now and muscle in one the current smartphone attention. Once the dust settles around Android and the iphone 4, most people will have already got their new phone.

[Perfectionist]

yeah blackberry really seem to be lagging behind on anything but the keyboard, which is annoying considering how BLEEP the touch screens are for typing. Swpe is just another gimmick too, it relies on predictive text so as soon as you hit a word it doesn't have or acronyms or want to actually use punctuation etc it's the same story.

[squirrelz]

Isn't a rim growth a bit like piles?
:I'llgetmycoat:

[Funkstar]

RIMshot!!

But seriously.... Can anyone actually tell most fo their handsets appart? They have three or four basic designs and just change the numbering slightly every 6-9 months. Just like the four digit Nokia handsets.

The storm was a step in a different direction and that wasn't very well executed (although it does have its fans), but nothing else from them catches the eye at all.