RIM CEO Heins says RIM better off with BlackBerry 10 delay


Smartphone fans applauded what they saw of BB10
The executive based this on the thought that had RIM launched the pair of BlackBerry 10 handsets in the fourth quarter, it would have had to compete with other handsets brought out during the holiday season. According to RIM's top executive, It's a time when flagship devices are battling with each other to be seen. "Carriers really do strong launches in the first quarter," he said. Talking to Canadian Broadcasting, Heins said that carriers want a viable third option after iOS and Android, and he says there is no reason why BlackBerry can't be this third option. Hmmm. It would seem that a little company named Microsoft might want to have a say in the matter.

The BlackBerry 10 virtual QWERTY
RIM's CEO talked about RIM's loyal customer base, its 80 million subscribers, and the two new BlackBerry 10 handsets coming out, one with a physical QWERTY keyboard. But the executive did say that RIM has had to concentrate on touchscreen devices with virtual keyboards for the new OS because growth of handsets with physical QWERTY keyboards has flattened out. Returning to BlackBerry 10, Heins says that RIM will be using ads to help show the public what the QNX based OS can do. He took a shot at RIM's challenger for the third spot in the OS Wars by calling Windows Phone "confusing" because of the different versions of the software.
source: CNET
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