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.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
49 responses to “RIM Is Preparing To Lay Another Rotten Egg To Challenge The iPhone 5”
Hahaha…no bes…blackberry please fire ur CEO
Such a harsh article!
I loved it :)
Ops, rim did again……… hhuauahahuahauauaua
I just paiid $ 21.87 for an iP a d 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://x.co/YpCG
eish, so 1990… rimmed to death.. and not “finger licking good”
or…..tongue in …….cheeck?
CoM, you could virtually eliminate SPAM with a simple pattern-match statement of the form:
“I just pa[i]+d $*for a*and my girlfriend loves her*that we got for $*”
Problem solved.
When RIM finally sinks & everything that was written in these articles are proven true, I bet all of the RIM-kool-aid-drinkers will blame the media for all the mistakes they made. This is at least the 6th time they’ve announced a product they’re not sure they’ll be able to have ready on time. No BES e-mail, contacts or BBM??! That doesn’t make any sense when all this company talks about is how they can’t abandon their core market. Once again, RIM is totally clueless dealing with the consumer market & even their main customers, who are bailing on them in record numbers. Now RIM has their main share holders waiting in anticipation for the QNX “superphones” that most likely won’t have standard BB functions. Doesn’t seem like a recipe for success. Sometimes I think execs at RIM have been planted in there by Apple, conspiring to destroy the company from within. No matter what, this a real treat to watch.
Yeah, it will be a “real treat” to watch 17,500 workers become unemployed.
A successful RIM would not only keep many of those people employed, but provide competitive pressure on Apple so that our iPhones get better in response.
First line of this article make me spill my coffee by my nose!! great laught!!!!
Didn’t I read in these pages just last week that 70 percent of Blackberry owners would prefer an iPhone?
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You make a very good point. Who wants to see good folks laid off?
But don’t blame the messenger.
Turn your ire onto the RIM CEOs. These are the guys who have halved the company value in a few short years. These are the guys who bought a half baked tablet out and promised everyone it would bury the iPad. These are the guys who took 4 years to gear their company into building a response to the iPhone, and now – it seems – have blown this too.
It’s not the journalists who did this. It’s the CEOs.
Where is the shareholder movement to fire these bums?
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I don’t know why people are cheering the demise of RIM. Competition is good for consumers. I don’t own a Blackberry and have the iPad 1, but I want a healthy, competitive RIM.
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I really pity this guy. I wonder how much he earns by posting 1 spam in every single new articles in all the Mac blogs.
Rim is flailing around desperate to compete with the iPhone. That’s foolish. What they should concentrate on is making the best device possible for their core audience, corporate America. Rim still has a niche, but rather solidifying that niche they’re trying to capture the iPhone audience — which isn’t gonna happen. It’s a fool’s errand. They need a new CEO.
couldn’t agree more – I’ve said before, that it’s the workers who will pay the price and all those clever people who make a company what it is will have to take it in the ass as the board walk away with pockets bulging with cash. Whilst RIM deserves to do poorly if they can’t compete I think it’s the top table that deserve a slap by being less than visionary with their companies IP. They could be doing so much better if they had people leading them in the right direction. And competition is good, a 2 horse race would be crap for everyone. Same goes for M$ – they should put Balmer out to pasture and get some good leadership back in place. (bring back Bill?).
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Who
made you the expert??? It’s amazing how people like yourself go around bashing
a company like RIM (Which may I remind you makes more money than G-d himself)
and is increasing its footprint world wide… its unbelievable to see folks
like you running their ,mouths like there’s no tomorrow… go back to your rat
whole.
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one more thing, where did you get
the info that the Colt is being released without BES support? If you know
anything about QNX, you would now that from a coding perspective, it puts any
of the APPLE OS’s to shame… then again, I shouldn’t expect anything less from a
site that has “Cult of Mac” as a title and is discussing RIM’s
future!!!
WOW, did you actually delete my comments??? really, did I touch a nerve???
No doubt an americanized apple luv machine wrote this. Blackberry is a threat – did you see steve wobble when the playbook came out. QNX is twice the apple system with the easily broken Iphone. Apple has to mantain the hype to keep the machine running and stop people from taking a close look.
Steve wobbled when the PlayBook came out? Maybe it was a fart? Hell, we both know he doesn’t even give a “tute” about the PlayBook. What’s it selling like 4 tablets a week? And while you’re happy about what QNX does, why don’t you consider that OS on a single-core CPU. Yup, this article was quite right as far as the turkey bit goes………and I’m vegan, so that’s saying something.
Both CEOs and the marketing director. Its incredible just how out of touch RIM is. And what marketing department in their right mind makes “multitasking” the biggest feature of a smartphone… These guys are technical nerds who don’t have a clue.
Yes, you are right, a rotten egg again.
RIM need an awesome phone and OS, but they cant do it.
I design phones for 11 years, and work for RIM for more than 3 years, so I have closer look at it, and deep inderstanding of the RIM culture.Strange culture in RIM, and self-destroy political environment.In RIM if you figure out problem and introduce efficient approach, both manager and his buddy group member will proof their wrong approach works.
just like someone point out driving a car is right way, pushing a car is wrong way, then both manager and his buddy group member will hate you, and proof that 3 person can also move the car by pushing it. cheating email will be sent to some vice president, saying like: see, the car moving, pushing a car is a natural part of the process. RIM is not system oriented company, self-destruct small company buddy culture, with a fat body. it is very strange company culture and strange company politicaljust like someone point out driving a car is right way, pushing a car is wrong way, then both manager and his buddy group member will hate you, and proof that 3 person can also move the car by pushing it. cheating email will be sent to some vice president, saying like: see, the car moving, pushing a car is a natural part of the process. RIM is not system oriented company, self-destruct small company buddy culture, with a fat body. it is very strange company culture and strange company political environment, it promote stealing and cheating skill, RIM’s management may be
a typical instance in MBA course.CEO may want the management better, but can’t reach the target, like I said 3 years ago, RIM is old before really grow up.