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BlackBerry delivers bumper spring harvest

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has pulled some exceedingly rare positive news out of the hat in the middle of a grim month for the mobile sector. While the rest of the mobile sector is ailing as consumers hold back from buying high-end handsets, RIM's latest figures show it milking it big time. Reporting its year-end …

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Boffin

View from the top

their definition of "market" probably includes all notably successful and profitable smartphone-or-imitation vendors...so that would be RIM, and Apple (where's Webster?...wait for it...).

full disclosure - BB 8800 user, no plan to ever purchase the iPhone.

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Smartphones

Hm... RIM products selling good... being the only ones with actual good security preferred by large organizations, good battery life, is this to be surprised with?

The iBone's crippled in strategic areas that would make the device useless for business use (at least for legally developed apps), Windows Mobile's a joke, so that leaves only Symbian-based smartphones as real RIM competitors.

As the previous commentor, full disclosure: BB 8100 user, I'd say those were the best spent $300 of the year.

Happy

Feel the love?

Not holding my breath on the idea of the iBoners admitting their electronic fashion accessory just got trounced in the bizz market, as predicted by anyone with half a clue.

Full disclosure - eagerly awaiting my new company 8800 with GPS; would have to be paid to take an iPhone.

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Its that simple formula ...

well designed product that works.

Full disclosure - 8300 , even better now that i finally got around to installing opera mini

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