

Massive delay does not sit well amid falling earnings


I. RIM Can't Find an LTE Chipset to Save Its Life








II. "I find your lack of confidence disturbing" 

RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie




III. The Financials

Now back to the financials themselves.








BlackBerries in the trash
[Image Source: LihPao]


Sources: RIM, Barrons, Reuters

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RE: LTE chipsets
By retrospooty on 12/16/2011 5:05:55 PM , Rating: 2
"not mentioned in the article, but Apple still doesn't have an LTE equipped phone, either"

True, but Apple has a phone that people want. RIM is already several years late to the decent mobile OS party and now they are blaming the next delay on a chip LOL. IOS released in June 2007. Even slowpoke Palm came out with a competing offer 2 years later, and they are totally disfunctional. Its now been almost 5 years and RIM still has no Phone OS to match.

Beyond that, what is taking them so long with QNX. It WAS released on the playbook earlier this year in at least decent form. Its not getting great reviews, but it is a good OS with alot of promise. What is taking 1 1/2 years from Playbooks working QNX release to get it on a freegin phone and why does the lack of a 4G chip delay releasing for 6 months? There are 3G options out there.

Bah, its all spin and excuses for total lack of management.

RE: LTE chipsets
By Pirks on 12/18/2011 1:12:23 PM , Rating: 3
If you weren't an anti-RIM troll with agenda you'd also realize that 1) MS is way more behind RIM in tablets, they don't even have a SINGLE one decent ARM tablet with Windows or WP7 and 2) it took 5 years for Apple to come up with their iPad franchise as well, it wasn't created overnight like you think.

So what we have here: RIM is ahead of MS in tablets, RIM's tablet rivals iPads in quality while the rest is cheapo Android junk, barely usable and ugly, and does not sell AT ALL, but still a few trolls like you or JM pretend that RIM is doomed and MS is not. So, the business as usual eh :)))

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By Cheesew1z69 on 12/18/2011 2:54:53 PM , Rating: 2


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By Cheesew1z69 on 12/19/11, Rating: 0
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By retrospooty on 12/19/2011 9:37:57 AM , Rating: 3
You are responding to outer space here. What are you talking about Read the comment again, its about LTE chipsets and RIM's excuses for not releasing QNX on phones for another year.

#1 - This isnt about tablets, we are talking phones.
#2 - This isnt about MS we are talking RIM.
#3 - If you want to bring in MS, they DO have a little Operating System business and a small product called XBOX that sell for multiple billions in Revenue. RIM has phones and that's about it (you may not want to add playbook considering all the money they lost on it.)

RE: LTE chipsets
By Pirks on 12/19/2011 11:28:01 AM , Rating: 2
its about LTE chipsets and RIM's excuses
It's more about you trolling only RIM, not the other companies who do exactly the same. Why don't you troll Apple or MS because they also don't have LTE phones? Why do you only troll RIM and not the other similarly lagging companies?

RE: LTE chipsets
By retrospooty on 12/19/2011 11:40:06 AM , Rating: 2
Again, nitwit, you miss the subject matter completely. Read the article title again REALLY SLOWLY.

RIM is saying they wont release QNX on phones in 6 months because there is no decent LTE chipset. THAT is the subject.

Why not release it 3G?
Why not use one of the many 28nm chips coming out in Q1 like Apple says its waiting for
Why is it a 6 month delay on something that is already 6 months out? Other companies release all there stuff on 4G, or do like Apple and stick with 3G.

Why? Becasue its a BS excuse for mismanagement. Thats why. - done.

RE: LTE chipsets
By Pirks on 12/19/2011 12:01:13 PM , Rating: 2
Why not release it 3G?
Why release it in 3G and spend precious resources to get the older boring phone out that not many US customers would be interested in? RIM needs cool attractive and FASHIONABLE stuff, LTE is all the buzzword these days, so RIM is betting on the newest coolest tech in order to drive sales in the future. Hence they'll polish the new OS and write additional software and apps for it while waiting for the new fashionable chips to arrive. The result will be much better phone that doesn't drain battery like the current Android LTE junk does. You're just too dumb to understand this, or you have an agenda. Or both :)))

RE: LTE chipsets
By retrospooty on 12/19/2011 12:47:26 PM , Rating: 2
OK, I give. You are right. RIM taking another year to release QNX on a phone and waiting for a decent 4G chip is a good idea. Go RIM!

