RIM’s diseased cloaca is swelling, and it’s getting ready to pop out another BlackBerry. Will this new handset though finally serve up a credible threat to Apple’s iPhone? Nope: while it will boast RIM’s new multitouch QNX operating system, all signs point to the BlackBerry Colt being another joke of a phone when it is released in 2012.
According to Boy Genius Report, the upcoming BlackBerry Colt won’t even come close to RIM’s repeated claims that their first QNX phone will be an iPhone-challenging “superphone.”
Instead, when the BlackBerry Colt is released in early 2012, expect it to boast a single-core processor. To put that in perspective, the iPhone 5 is expected to boast the iPad 2’s A5 dual-core processor, and it seems likely that by the time the BlackBerry Colt ships, the iPad 3 will either be out or be imminent… and is likely to have a quad-core A6 CPU.
Ouch. But let’s say you’re locked into BlackBerry because your company uses BlackBerry Enterprise Server for email or calendaring. Surely, the BlackBerry Colt would be a good choice then… right?
Nope. Because RIM’s planning on shipping the Colt without BES support. Sound familiar? It’s one of the main reasons the BlackBerry PlayBook launched without native email.
Even more hysterical? If companies want to use Microsoft Exchange email on the device, they’ll have to use Microsoft ActiveSync.
Somebody take this turkey of a company back to the chopping block. It’s done.
