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And it's no wonder that several European countries believe that RIM (now Blackberry) is just a front for the US/UK/Canadian/Australian Echelon program.

You lost me at this point. Tinfoil hat and stating that RIM is now Blackberry(RIM makes Blackberry phones, that's like saying Apple is now Mac/iPhone).

RIM announced their name change to Blackberry during the official launch.

If you had a greater understanding of this subject, you would not have made such an egregious insinuation.

Just because you use slightly fancier words doesn't mean you actually know what you're talking about.

CNET reports that Apple patents "Giving your Phone a Reach-around to Check Voicemail"

No, that'd be more of a Sony thing given the rear touch sensor on the PS Vita.

while RIM is rumored to be close to announcing a "Tongue the Screen Discreetly to Read E-Mail" feature.

That would fit in with RIM jobs.

Plus, if you go with RIM today, you'll get to do all this again in a year or two after they're done imploding! Maybe you can volunteer to run their NOC!

As can Exchange through Active Sync (on Android or iOS). Don't invest in a company that is posting a billion in hardware losses this year.

Actually, its shy of a half billion Press Release PDF

They still shipped 14 million units in Q3, still revenue positive, still have 75 million subscribers. Is this up to iphad numbers? No. But they're still profitable and I think they'll be around for quite a while yet.

"Amazon will likely succeed only in alienating customer with PlayBooks who have already purchased lots of streaming video content."

Isn't that a bit dramatic?? I mean look at this, "RIM sold into the channels approximately 150,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the third quarter...".

Ok, that is Q3, and you can go back to April 2011, but still, just how many are there really who a) bought a PlayBook, and b) "have already purchased lots of streaming video content" ??

I venture to think Amazon maybe "doesn't give a shit".

Sure, click here if you'd like a rim job too.

Here's the original press release http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=5285

For the TLDR crowd, just scroll down to the bullet list and look at what BB Fusion is offering/promising. I can assure you, these are needed.

-secure network
-enterprise management
-on devices that'll play angry birds.
Hopefully that'll keep everyone happy.

Developers will simply repackage, code sign and submit their BlackBerry Java and Android apps to BlackBerry App World. Once approved, the apps will be distributed through BlackBerry App World, providing a new opportunity for many developers to reach BlackBerry PlayBook users. Users will be able to download both the app players and the BlackBerry Java and Android apps from BlackBerry App World.

At least for Android, it sounds pretty clear that they're cutting Google's store out of the picture.

Would you use a cell phone OS made by an advertising company? I only have a lowly call-and-text phone, but if I were buying a smartphone I'd avoid Android like the plague.

So which smartphone would you buy that doesn't come from an advertising company?

Apple? No, they're an advertising company.
Rim? No, they're an advertising company.
Nokia? No, they're an advertising company.

Looks like no smartphone for you.

Yes, no conservative would allow any kind of US Government employees to use foreign software for important work and communications RIM

Or they could just move 140 miles north to Canada. Very minor shift in culture, no language barriers, no tariffs, and the US government already uses a proprietary Canadian OS on some of their devices.

Or they could just move to Nevada.

In any case, the article doesn't provide any evidence that Microsoft is doing anything illegal, though they heavily imply it. The article links to a couple of other sites (written by the same author, how original!) that basically spew the same nonsense, but there is no indication why Microsoft can't do exactly what they are doing.

No, BlackBerry users are the ones who wish for a RIM job.

The company announced some months ago its own version of the App Store for BlackBerry, the BlackBerry Application StoreFront

Uh...

1) GMail works great on BlackBerry's.
2) The BlackBerry 8700 supports UMTS and EVDO. While the IPhone, which isn't available until June, only supports the slower EDGE network.

Can't blackberries access a pop acount? Or this this just not good enough? Or you can't you set up e-mail forwarding directly to the users blackberry account if you need "push" mail?

Yes they can, but both of those are lame.

I'm not familiar with this new product, but it looks like it's just a reduced-license version of their full enterprise server, which provides full wireless email, calendar, tasks, and contacts synchronization with a corporate Outlook or Lotus Notes account, as well as secure behind-the-firewall access to the corporate intranet, email address lookups, etc.

"In light of the understandable comments incited by the RedBerry, with the tune of "Commie bastards, ripping off our ideas and mass producing them," let's take a different look at our trade relations with China. [...] To relate that to the China situation, the reason we have a trade deficit is because Americans, on an individual basis, want to buy cheap mass-produced goods."

But Canada has a trade surplus, not a deficit.

All of the NTP patents have been rejected by the Patent Office in initial and second Office Actions, based in part on prior art not considered in the 2002 trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The rejections from the Patent Office were all based on multiple grounds, required the unanimous agreement of 3 senior patent examiners and are expected to withstand all future appeals by NTP.

RIM Jobs are available http://rim.com/careers/index.shtml and strangely enough THEY pay YOU!

You're wrong again.

http://www.rim.com/investors/articles/patent_abuse .shtml

RIM did a patent search. They did due diligence.

NTP sued RIM. They claim an infringement on a bad patent.

The judges ruled that given the patent, REGARDLESS of the patent office review and statements "we shouldn't have done that", could be applied to RIM.

RIM has done everything they can given that the validity of the patent is not the issue.

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As it's not mentioned in the summary, and nobody here with any "street cred." RTFAs, I thought I might throw you all the following link.

http://www.rim.com/

"The interest [in developing the Blackberry] came through his fascination with ham radio."

I've actually been thinking about that, look at the Blackberry by RIM (http://www.rim.com/). Having used one I can say the device is rather small, about 1 cm thick (thats 2/5 of an inch) and fits comterably in your hand.

I'm certain adding a hard drive wouldn't be too hard, you might need some firmware upgrades but the iPod does just fine with a tiny CPU.

I doubt it would be too hard to build them together, maybe make it a bit thicker but not quites as wide (2 - 2.5 cm thick, somewhere a little under current width). And there you go, you've got GSM / GPRS connectivity (for phone and data), data connections to view your e-mail and browse the web, maybe build the iTunes music store into the device, and a HD for your music. You might have to settle for an iPod mini hard drive (but I doubt it) however even that would make a sweet device, who cares about video when you have all that? Sure it'd be nice, but I'd rather see a phone/data device first.

The injunction banning RIM from selling was stayed pending appeal/re-examination of NTP's patents. You can read more about it at RIM's corporate website. For the meantime and the years it will take to get this through appeal, BlackBerry can continue to be sold in the USA.

Although I'm still a fan of the T900 and have been for some time, I've had reliability problems. I purchased mine from Metrocall, and while the service was great, I went through 3 replacements before I just gave up on it. They always broke the same way - one day they ust stopped powering up when I flipped open the screen. And I treated these things gingerly too! If you choose it, I hope you'll have better luck than I.

The RIM Blackberry is another popular option in the pager department.

The option I'm with now is Wireless internet from At&t -- for 15/mo on top of any plan you have unlimited WAP, etc, and the R289LX Phone has an optional clip-on keyboard too (though I chose the T250 myself)

Another cheaper cell-phone option is Voicestream who offers 5mb of WAP data across any of their iStream Phones for $5/month.

And Depending on range, you could even go with some wireless toy like the Cybiko, too.

Why does it need to be a full sized keyboard. You can type pretty fast on these with just your thumbs after a little while.

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