T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9900 Unboxing & Hands-On

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From RIM’s Conference Call: CEO Pay Cuts & Dual-Core LTE BlackBerrys | TechCrunch
@George Tsiolis
Once word of BB 10 delays into latter 2012 hit the street, we will witness the first ever "smartphone run" by customers. $RIMM is in very big trouble.
@Lisa Darch
Forget the dual-core Lte option; make them as easy as an iPhone to use and they've got a chance. Simple as that.
@John Fernandez
not that simple.... need an ecosystem, and app market with tens of thousands of developers for starters. blackberry wont ever get that. theyre done
@Joe Jerde
The Jailbreak hackers of the PlayBook have stated that QNX trumps Android so I imagine any QNX device will put RIM back in the race for top US subscribers.
@Dave Ewart
The real story here, produce a market leading product and $RIMM shareholders won't care what you pay the execs.
@Jason McMinn
RIM is done for. A dual core chip isn't going to help. They got Nokia'd.
@Frank Guillen
As Microsoft is slowly swallowing Nokia, RIM could be end up being part of Oracle or IBM, RIM fits perfectly into the market both companies are doing business, Microsoft won't bet against Nokia.
@Jason McMinn
Frank Guillen RIM is dead. If IBM or Oracle wants a mobile company, they can buy Web OS off of HP. It is better than RIM - and a lot cheaper.
@Habibullah Khan
The owners own majority shares and Canada's reluctance to see a National Champion go the way of Nortel means no is acquiring RIM. No one outside Canada that is....
@Abdul Nabi
You very well could be right... and if the Canadians block any move like that well then should and deserve to support all the folks that will lose their jobs and end up on social programs as a result of some bonehead policy due to national pride
@Frank Guillen
Jason McMinn Buildon on WebOS could be cheaper at start, but RIM has a market and this has a big value, this is a business market. It doesn't make any sense to let a company like RIM gets burned dry on the road.
@Younes Oughla
Too little too late...By "the latter part 2012" which is a year from now, RIM would be out of the smartphone race.
@Janiece Staton
While it's GREAT NEWS that some of the ultra-wealthy are starting to re-examine their salaries, I'd rather know how much their front-line workers are going to get in INCREASED WAGES, as a result of this decision. What are they planning to DO with that extra income they won't be taking home to their well-cared-for families?
@Patrick Toohey
The money will more likely be reinvested in to the company to keep the sinking ship afloat.
@Janiece Staton
Why don't companies ever THINK of investing in PEOPLE, rather than investing in THINGS?!?!? If THINGS could save the USA, we'd ALL be in GREAT SHAPE, this very moment!
@Jonathan Guez
Janiece Staton Paying people you currently have isn't going to make them smarter.
@Janiece Staton
Jonathan Guez From my experience as an RN, I can report that it's AMAZING how much "smarter" human beings BECOME, when they aren't preoccupied with how they're going to take care of all of their financial, social, familial, citizenship, health care, educational, and other obligations! Money in their pockets, to help lower the stress levels in their lives, does AMAZING THINGS for most people's ability to concentrate on their work projects - no matter where they are on the socio-economic scale. Most people in the USA are so exhausted, from either being overworked/underpaid and/or looking for full-time employment, they can hardly concentrate well on much of ANYTHING, IMHO!
@Paul Miranda
Jim and Mike should get new job titles.. Dual-Core CEO
@Tyson Trautmann
RIM needs a paradigm shift to stay relevant. Why not scrap Blackberry OS and instead ship Blackberry Hardware with Windows Phone or Android plus a proprietary suite of software (I haven't had a Blackberry in ages but I'm assuming there are still some important differentiating apps that users can't enjoy elsewhere, otherwise I'm not sure who's buying the devices now) on top?
@Mac Hsu
better be quick, get more competitive!
@Shyam Nagarajan
Time for RIM to get out to the smart phone market... They need to focus on making their infrastructure work on iPhone and Android... Get back to basics... time to invent a new game.
@Habibullah Khan
It's not good enough to take your salary down to USD 1; that's an admission you are not performing well. They need to kick themselves up to the board and get a proper CEO because that will be the correct admission.... That they have failed their shareholders catastrophically. We can debate all day about how to reinvent RIM. Fact of the matter is with these CEO's it simply will not happen. Even a casual reader of TC knows the most important thing for a company's ensured success and longevity is for the founders to know when to step aside. And that 90's logo so has to go.
@Nithin Mohan
if not fast enough..it'll be RIP to RIM.
@Adam Levy
GAME CHANGER, EH?