RIM looking toward “strongest growth” with BlackBerry Bold launch
By Will Park on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 at 12:53 PM PST In Announcements, BlackBerry, Financial/Corporate News, RIM (Research in Motion)
There’s nothing like a hot, new product launch to boost your bottom line. Summer isn’t just a blockbuster movie season. No, summer is traditionally the time of year when handset manufacturers and carriers roll out their hottest new wares for out-of-school kids and barely-working adults to drool over.
So, with Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) lineup, slated to go live with the BlackBerry Bold 9000 in the near term, RIM has announced that it expects the second half of 2008 to show the “strongest growth” of any 2H period. Not even the iPhone 3G’s launch on July 11 seems to faze RIM CEO Jim Balsillie. Despite the iPhone 3G’s much improved Enterprise support (RIM’s bread-and-butter), Balsillie doesn’t see the iPhone and BlackBerry demographics overlapping too much.
While we’re not too sure how much or how little overlap there exists between the iPhone 3G and the BlackBerry Bold, we’re sure that the BlackBerry Bold 9000 will be a hot-ticket this summer blockbuster season. With HSDPA, WiFi, GPS, 1GB onboard memory, microSD card slot, and high-resolution display powered by a revamped BlackBerry OS, the BlackBerry Bold 9000 isn’t just another BlackBerry, it’s RIM’s renewed push for smartphone market share.
Could the BlackBerry Bold 9000 and iPhone 3G prove to be this summer’s biggest-selling smartphones? Most likely. As for which handset will take top-billing as the most popular handset of 2008… we’ll see.
[Via: MocoNews]
This is a great phone, Rim needs to get this phone out to the public, They also need to build a buzz around it, the iphone was even on my local news(that’s crazy) Rim needs to work out the bugs and get this out so when people go to get an ipone the see a display of the bold. Also yes the iphone has push now but you have to pay for it per yr!
BlackBerry Bold could be a breakthrough for Research in motion. I read somewhere that Bold has got better LCD than iPhone