The weblogs have been busy lately covering news about the new Nokia releases, including the brand new MeeGo operating system (which apparently will die sooner than expected), all the scandals and law suits between Apple and Samsung and all those leaked pics of various smartphones, which were supposed to be the next generation Google Nexus phone.
Anyway, it seems like everyone forgot about RIM. What? Who is RIM? Well, it’s that company producing the BlackBerry phones the businessmen love so much. Why do they love’em? We haven’t managed to find out, but that’s a whole other story.
After announcing below-expectations (but still reasonable) financial results, the Canadians of Research in Motion have started to develop a new generation smartphone (they are trying this from the beginning of times), which will leave BlackBerry OS platform behind. It seems that thenew model will bring the new QNX OS, we already saw in action on BlackBerry PlayBook.
The details about the new RIM smartphone come from the guys at N4BB, who say that the Canadian company halted the production of the 10-inch PlayBook, now focusing on a new “superphone.” The smartphone will come with a 4.3-inch touchscreen with a 900+ screen resolution, claims the same source. Under the case of the new RIM “superphone” will be the 1.2GHz CPU from BlackBerry Bold 9900, a phone that will hit the market soon.
The Canadian company claims that a dual-core processing unit would affect the battery live, but we hope that RIM will change their mind until the new BlackBerry “superphone” will be launched. As about the rest of the RIM’s plans, the company will launch the 4G LTE version of the 7-inch PlayBook tablet in October.
I’m wondering, is it smart to launch a single core handset at the end of the year, considering that some companies said they are already preparing quad core devices?
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