@tech4people: well, honestly, I am not fully aware of RIM roadmap; maybe they have planned the plan based on results achieved on the last product launched; anyway I suspect it will be a topic to be targeted soon.
Its getting more and More Difficult to be Bullish on Microsoft in the Smartphone Space.
@tech4people, I am not sure why you think like that. Infact Windows Phone is the fastest growing operating system of 2012 with 290% growth. If you refer to this graph you will observe that iOS grew by 16% and Anrdoid grew by 52%. This clearly shows that people are still excited about the windows OS.
In the case of Apple I would agree with you;but Samsung continues to generate extremely-extremely innovative Products to try and Capture every single part of the market out there.
@tech4people, Agreed Samsung continues to generate extremely innovative products, but if you look at the latest released Samasung galaxy many analysts are disappointed that it lack innovative features. I think the next big innovative thing will be to release mobiles with flexbile displays. Until then i think it will have just minor updates.
In the case of Apple I would agree with you;but Samsung continues to generate extremely-extremely innovative Products to try and Capture every single part of the market out there.
Just look at the price range their Products are in Developing markets like Asia,Africa and South.America today and you will get a clearer idea.
If you look at the R&D Budget of RIM today;its a fraction of what Apple and Samsung spend on Innovation and Research.
@tech4people, no doubt Apple and Samsung are investing hugely in R&D but still the latest released Apple and Samsung phone lack innovative fetures which shows that they are reaching saturation. This might help RIM which is not investing heavily in R&D.
Question is what do they have in the Product Pipeline now?
@tech4people, I believe BlackBerry is planning for Blackberry 10 tablet sometime in Q3 followed by a large-screened phablet codenamed the U10 sometime in the late Q4.
Agreed, tech4people. The Z10 seems to be a good product for Blackberry and is gaining them more of the market again. However, they need to keep designing good products like this in order to stay afloat, which may be difficult. Otherwise, they will fall again.
Blackberry is doing very,very well on the Back of the Success of the Z10.
It also helps Blackberry's case that the Iphone 5 was a disaster while Samsung is yet to come out with the S4 and HTC to come out with THE ONE[Which will happen very soon].
Once that happens,RIM will not have any New Models(beyond the Z10) to compete with them.
Any Ideas how does RIM's Product Pipeline look like today?
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