Comments on: Business Week: The Pearl is Important for RIM (duh)

By: BlackBerry Cool » Weekend Contest: “Which BlackBerry do you want?”

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:16:27 +0000

[...] There’s nothing worse than the dog days of summer, especially when you know that the coming fall and winter months will bring not one, but three new BlackBerrys: the 8100, the 8200 and the yet unnamed WiFi QWERTY BlackBerry. So the question then becomes which one do you want? Does the nascent Pearl tickle your fancy, or are you willing to wait a bit longer for the full QWERTY 8200 version? Or maybe you don’t care about multimedia at all, and want a true “Electron” successor with WiFi. Post a comment and let us know. The winner will receive a free version of Tetris from Handmark. [...]

By: Thought

Thought — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:42:14 +0000

It’s interesting how the article talks about RIM “feeling the heat” but doesn’t mention the dynamic in the opposite direction: namely, these other competitors like Palm, Nokia, Motorola, etc., feeling the heat from RIM.

If I were these other players in the game, I’d worry when a formidable name like BB comes onto the field.

By: Thought

Thought — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:42:00 +0000

If I were these other players in the game, I’d worry when a formidable name like BB comes onto the field.