http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/06/06/lazaridis-speaks-about-new-blackberrys/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Wed, 22 May 2013 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/06/06/lazaridis-speaks-about-new-blackberrys/comment-page-1/#comment-35149 BlackBerry Cool » Why RIM shouldn’t buy Palm (and what they should do) Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:58:04 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/06/06/001842/#comment-35149 [...] One of the main causes for investor doubt in RIM’s stock has been the recent release of the Motorola Q, which the mainstream media mistakenly believes is a competitor to the BlackBerry; it’s not. The Motorola Q is for people who love the RAZR and want email. BlackBerrys are for people who need email as well as some secondary handset functionality. Despite constant whispers, RIM to date has not yet released a true consumer level competitor to devices like the Motorola Q or the Sidekick 3 (as lovely as the 7130g is, it offers nothing in the way of multimedia options that consumers crave). Partnering with a company to produce a true consumer handset would expand their market share and strengthen their brand without distracting them from continued growth in the enterprise market. You only have to look as far as the iBerry to see how exciting such a partnership could be. [...]

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