RIM just can’t get its act together.
The company’s best hope for a recovery, its next-generation BlackBerry 10 platform, has been pushed back to late next year. While executives blamed the later release of a new chip, Boy Genius Report said the real reason for the delay is the inability for RIM to get its core email and messenger services on the new platform.
“RIM is simply pushing this out as long as they can for one reason, they don’t have a working product yet,” the blog said, citing an anonymous source.
Research in Motion, however, denied the claim.
“As explained on our earnings call, the broad engineering impact of this decision and certain other factors significantly influenced the anticipated timing for the BlackBerry 10 devices,” the company said in an e-mailed statement to CNET. “The anonymous claim suggesting otherwise is inaccurate and uninformed.”
Last week, RIM executives dropped the warning, worrying investors and frustrating consumers.
“We ask for your patience and confidence,” Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said during a conference call to analysts.
Lazaridis, following up on co-CEO Jim Balsillie’s disclosure of the delay, explained that the smartphone processor that it has chosen, which would combine a dual-core chip with a more power-efficient 4G LTE radio, wouldn’t come out until the middle of the year. Lazaridis said RIM couldn’t provide the kind of BlackBerry experience customers were used to without this chip.
By Roger cheng/cnet.com
