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BlackBerry Developer Day is on Tuesday, February 16th at App Planet, during Mobile World Congress. This is a great opportunity for BlackBerry developers to network, meet the experts, and listen to some interesting speaker sessions.
While you need a code to register, it does allow you to “register your interest.” This probably means you can be slotted in if there are vacancies.
With the fiscal 2010 Q3 earnings conference call happening this Thursday, investors and analysts are getting ready to scrutinize Jim Balsillie’s speech as well as their accounting details. Raymond James analyst Steven Li is expecting both good and bad news. The good: RIM has launched a number of successful devices. The bad: Motorola’s Droid is eating sales at Verizon and low Bold 9700 pricing may be hurting Curve sales. Gus Papageorgiou, a Scotia Capital analyst, is recommending investors to stay in for the 4th as he expects it to be a favorable quarter.
RIM will be holding its Q3 Earnings Conference Call for the fiscal year ending 2010, on Thursday December 17, 2009 at 5:00 PM ET. We’ll be sure to keep you updated and do a nice summary of the call, but if you want to hear it for yourself, make sure to register.
For a summary of the previous two quarters for the fiscal year ending 2010, see the following:
RIM 2nd Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial Results Overview
Research in Motion 1st Quarter Fiscal 2010 Conference Call
Borders Group have launched an eBook reader and service with KOBO, a spinoff of Indigo. The service is available on your BlackBerry, where you can easily download eBooks and read them on your device. The KOBO service plans to offer 1.8 million free books and another 200,000 at $9.99.
With a clean UI, a simple downloading process and a clean font, this app makes reading books on your BlackBerry very easy. To use the KOBO app, you must have OS 4.5 or greater.
WIND Mobile have announced they will offer the Bold 9700 on a prepaid plan. While prepaid plans are hugely popular in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, postpaid dominates the North American markets. With no contract, the device goes for $450. This is a really decent price when you compare it to the fact that the Bold 9000 cost $680 with no contract a year ago.
MobileSyrup is reporting that the Curve 8530 will be making its way to Bell, rumored to launch on December 26th. Considering Boxing Day is the day when most stores offer the cheapest deals, I can’t imagine them selling the 8530 for anything but free. The device will likely come in either Black or Royal Purple.
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