Agreed.

+1

Thanks for posting this Kevin!! I agree 100% 2012 is going to be a big year for RIM and I think they can pull through!!!

Awesome.

In a year from now RIM will say they are waiting for a super efficient quad core architecture

Sounds like same old RIM BS. I'm still waiting for the 2.0 OS for BlackBerry PlayBook promised last simmer. Why would anyone buy a BlackBerry 7 phone that they say will be outdated end of year. PLEASE Microsoft or Android buy these buffoons out so we can get a competitive device that's not already outdated on day it's finally released.

"we will not launch BlackBerry 10 devices until we know they are ready and we believe this new chip set architecture is required to deliver the world class user experience that our customers will expect."

An interesting way of wording that. No where in their response did they contradict the claim that it' doesn't have a working product yet. The way they worded this statement makes you think that they really don't.

I'm not tyring to bash another site, but BGR has become the TMZ of the tech world. They're to eager to deliever "Breaking News" to the point that I feel like they put false information out there to create a buzz. Everything they post comes from a "Trusted Source" but there's never a name.

Dont you guys get it? BGR is extremely smart, he says that he has a "trusted" source inside RIM, wich most likely is false, and the article is most likely made up! And what do he get in return? An official statement from Rim! Dont hate on him, because he is simply very, very, very clever!

Brucep1, if they had a working product that could compete, they would release it right now. Obviously it's not working yet because we're nowhere near to either the original or new release dates. They learned their lesson with the playbook, that's why we're not seeing blackberry 10 devices yet. Am I missing something or are you people that thick-headed?

RIM is goin down the toilet. BB10 is a bust. How else can you explain all the failed promises for QNX. I feel sorry for all the diehard RIMjobbers. It will be a sad day for them when the doors close for good in Waterloo.

Sorry Kev, you're living in a dream world. BGR has devolved into sensationalist stunts, true. But Crackberry shouldn't allow itself to become simply a forum for RIM to perpetuate their delusions. Whether there is any merit to BGR's claims, the swift response from RIM is telling in its own way.

man, i was really expecting RIM to say, "Y'know what? That guy's right. We're screwed." can't believe they didn't. huh...

Fine.... let's launch an OS and phone that is not ready for prime time....That sentiment makes no logical sense to me .. sorry, I filly agree with the 'wait till its FULLY ready and then launch a killer OS and hardware' group. The only suggestion I would put forward at this time is GET A BETTER MARKETING TEAM THAT KNOWS WHAT THE HELL THEY'RE DOING. RIM has got to have one of the worst marketing groups in the industry. That said, the OS, now and the coming 10 + 2 plus the hardware (phone and tablet) are some of the best on the market.

As RIM has previously explained, and as Mike Lazaridis reiterated on the earnings call, we will not launch BlackBerry 10 devices until we know they are ready

Then we should still be waiting for the release of the playbook if that's their way of thinking.

All I know and care about is that I love my Bold 9930. It is the best smartphone for me and that is it.
I've tried all the others and they just don't cut it for me.

Simple.

Come on RIM you can do it!

I think OS 2 for Playbook will be a clear indication of how RIM is doing with OS10. Let's hope that comes in Feb. BGR is full of crap and aways has been.

I am not a techie, but I got my new Bold 9930 a couple of months ago (after owning a Storm for a couple of years) and bought a killer priced Playbook Tablet two nights ago.

I can barely use what I own now so I don't really care when the new stuff comes out. I LOVE what I own now. I'm just hoping RIM is around a long time so I can continue to use what I have.

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.

I have difficulty understanding RIM lingo...but the hog wash and lies is uphauling

"....and certain other factors???" --like not having a working model and o by the way LTE..what LTE we never said anything about LTE , its certain other factors now?

"influenced the anticipated timing" -- nice way of saying delayed

Why twist words around..it only makes things worse?

Look at how quickly smartphones have evolved over the past two years. By the time RIM releases BB10 phones there'll be devices that are mind boggling compared to them. Somebody save RIM now!

Until we see some hard facts picture or get some specs people are going to continue to hate on this OS.

Find the source and terminate him/her,sue for violating confedentiality agreement.

Bah. Happy Holidays! Whatever happens, happens.

It really is tough to stay loyal. I try so hard. I feel sorry for RIM. They were complacent and now they're outgunned. The space moves too fast. They keep saying that BB10 will be this timeless world class experience. Analysts everywhere argue it's already outdated at this very moment. What does that mean for 12 months from now when it's finally out?

I have been waiting along time for these "superphones". I'm starting to lose faith that they'll be all that super. A dual core LTE phone with a modified QNX OS and autofocus camera will hardly be super a year from now. It would have a hard time being clasified as super today.

I can't even comprehend the new benchmark in smartphones a year from today but can confidently say BB10's will be Casio calculators in comparison.

Is it just me but I see most people this way:
Phone got released half-baked = People Rant
Phone got delayed due to premature hardware/software = People Rant

Whatever happens, I still love my 9900 7.1 and my PlayBook 2.0

Seeing how Android devices are poised to carry the Intel Medfield chips for 2012, I would sure hope that RIM would seek out better chips than what were planned on. I don't know what their alternatives are, but I hope it's in the same ballpark. For 10 devices to come out swinging with a twig would just be embarrassing.

As long as RIM makes a phone that has great battery life, data efficency, relatively bug free, and they continue throwing money at big devs (like they have with EA, Gameloft) BB10 phones will be fine.

Will make a great replacement for my POS Android (which is still way better than an iphone).

Same reason the iPhone 5 was never released...the LTE chipset isn't ready yet...so they had to stall with a mediocre upgrade. I got this from an insider at Intel.

The funny thing is that even ifthe article was right, does it really matter? If they don't have it ready then they just don't. If they are fibbing again I have no respect for that but it really doesn't matter why its not ready, it only matters that its not. Everybody has a hard on for a device that they don't even know if they will like it. I'm happy with my 9930 as long as they fix the freezing issue and hope for an even better bb10 bold. Until then bring on the 2.0 update, release the keyboard and mouse for the playbook and please market the crap out of the exsisting devises to create some revinue.

Other than that you guys need to chill.

Come on Kevin. We know you have the native mail app on your PlayBook. How close to final is it? If it's working well for you, then we know this 'source' is bs. If you can tell it's months away from final, then there might be something to this. Tell us!

In the words of Vinnie Barbarino - I'M SO CONFUSED!!! Reading all the comments on CB has my brain doing flipflops! There was bitching because the PlayBook was released "too soon", it was incomplete. Now there's bitching because the new phones won't be out because RIM wants them to be right. Where's Angry Birds?! Where's Angry Birds?! Angry Birds is released and lo and behold, it COSTS TOO MUCH(even though, apparently, its the same price as the iPad version)! What?! No native email on PlayBook? Funny, until I bought my BB, I didn't have even have email on my phone. There's no apps for PB! Damn that RIM! Maybe RIM should pay developers to make the apps. Ya know, I've seen better behavior in a class of first graders. I love my PB for everything it CAN do. Since I bought it in May, it goes everywhere with me. I use my laptop maybe once a week, if that. Every improvement they make to the PB is just icing on the cake. As for the phones, I use Nextel PTT alot, so until Sprint finally does away with it, I'll still be rockin' my Curve 8350i with OS5, and lovin' it for what it CAN do. Ok, rant over. I now return you to your regularly scheduled bitch session.

Yes, Kevin, it's about engineering execution. The iPhone OS officially released in June of 2007 with the 1st iPhone. The Android 1.1 in Feb of 2009. Both these companies have an army of top tier engineers, the pick of the liter, and are YEARS ahead of RIM with their OS. You really think version 1.0 of BlackBerry 10 is magically going to even be able to compete? Google and Apple can recruit the best of the best software engineers. If you were a rock star engineer - would you (A) go work for Google or Apple in sunny California, whose stock price has been on an upward trajectory for years with no signs of slowing down, and you will be learning and working with the best of the best, or (B) work for RIM in freezing Ontario for a company whose stock price is taking a nose dive. It's a catch-22 situation, RIM does need an OS refresh, but that also means having top tier software engineers to lay down the proper foundation so that they can execute efficiently. There is a reason why all the recent launches by RIM have been delayed and poorly executed. They just don't have the skilled resources that the companies in Silicon Valley have. Here is a bold statement - if they want to have even a chance at succeeding - they need to relocate or startup a dev team here in Silicon Valley.

I just want something that is smooth and easy.

The only strong statement that I would have hoped for from RIM was the following: "We are currently in consultaiton with our lawyers to sue BGR for slander and have every intention of destroying, financially, BGR"

Now that would have been a much better press release then the current gobbly goo from RIM.

I have been reading these comments and Im curious. With all these advancement in mobile tech cells the one technology thats still stagant is the battery technology. Lithium Ion cells have not advanced for over 10+. How the hell can mobile tech companies power todays phones with yesterday battery tech. Alot of users seems to forget that. Why would I want quad core capabilites when battery tech can barely support dual core.

All these tech analysts retards think they know everything about tech and yet the f!@#$king problem is right in their hands, and dont even really aware of it. All the mobile companies are putting out screaming fast beautiful screen phones but all have that inharent flaw. Rim phones may seem dated with other cells but Rim seems to be the only one who truly understands this dilimma. And yet we all bash them for being cautious, and yes, late to the mobile game. Rim achille heels is that it wasnt fast enough to to compete in mobile tech, but maybe, they understood something most tech company either ignored or forgot about.

No matter how one looks at it, no tech company are ignorant, arrogant maybe, but no way are they as stupid as these analysts make them out to be. If they have all the answers why dont they go out and build their own superphones instead of pretending to know anything.

To all these so called tech journalists or whatever u want to call them, so listen the F%$#!!K up. Either shut up, put out, or write something sensible. As an old army quote; kill them all and let God sort them out.

i believe in rim and i believe they will do what is best to get the blackberry back on the top of the smartphone race

Thank you Kevin. I agree with this. There are a lot of people that only like complaining and spread rumors around.

There is no perfect company, and I believe RIM learned from prior mistakes. I rather have them delay a product than put out one that is half way done that will ignite more flames than improve people's perceptions.

CEOs have a though job making decision that sometimes are not effective. I admire their courage to come out and say they will delay the product whether people are not going to like it or not and deal with the ramifications instead of simply saying what people want to hear.

I was really young when I realized smart people probably should not believe stories about two-headed space aliens in those tabloids near the grocery store check-out lines. And then in graduate school there was something about ethics when reporting information ....

FACT: The PlayBook is powerful and useful and I don't even have OS2 on it yet.
FACT: BB OS7 serves me very well.
FACT: A large part of the comments here are by people that know nothing about what it takes to do what RIM is trying to do. Read between the lines and stop getting so upset by children voicing opinions on things they know nothing about. Do yourselves a favor and skip to the credible comments. Intelligent, respectful, open discussion is healthy. Ignore the rest.
FACT: The negative stuff is either true or not truie and we will all soon know, won't we?

I never read the article, but it does surprise me RIM bothered to answer. Not sure what that is about.

How is Johnathan Geller a credible source that deserves an official response? So he's a guy who's obsessed with phones and writes a blog, may or may not have "sources", on a site with a sort of odd bent (paid perhaps?) for blackberry smear articles. I mean I can write a blog too, lol.
I don't know where BGR lives, but the majority of smartphones where I live are either blackberries or iphones, and I suspect that RIMs high market share has attracted all this attention.
The internet is great, but we need to realize how much of these "articles" are marketing, and how much these tech and blog sites parrot each other:

1: its easy to write something and put it on the internet
2: it's free and easy to access
3: it's relatively anonymous
4: Lots of people will read it as it gets passed around

So it's a marketing dream for all sorts of companies/individuals who use it to their advantage. Unfortunately given that a small company- RIM has a large market share in the smartphone category (a red hot product category), it will of course be under attack from other companies vying for the top spot. RIM needs to hire a better marketing firm and get some good press out there.

And I love the "Sinister" black and white photos of the co-CEO's Mike and Jim, (omg suits!).

it has been know since before the release of the playbook that handsets with the new os would not be available until a capable dual core processor was ready.

the pb is a preview of what is too come. the only thing i would have done differently if i made decisions at rim would have been to release a 3g version of the tablet with pim and call it the blackbook. that way users could have had a choice between bridge and 3g tablet instead of the changing their approach to pins. the blackbook would just be a touch phone with a larger screen.

bridge is my choice as i see no reason to upgrade the tablet hardware if every 3 years im getting the latest greatest handset.

this is just more bs posturing attracting attention to negative news. if you tell the same lie repeatedly eventually all common sense will be abandoned and your bs will be believed.

Firstly its BGR. Secondly read the claim once twice and you will notice it is garbage.
They say BB 10 will not be released because it is not yet complete? What did they expect?
Everyone only releases products when they are done. So what is different with RIM?

there are some reports that the "high members" of rim are meeting with those from nokia and microsoft....
i think Rim has to put the pedal to the metall... ios and android are getting more and more interessting for business use. i dont know of it's a good decision to get android apps to the blackberry... there is a possibility for rim that they definitly could merge business usage and multimedia perfektly but they have to work hard... maybe its better to develop a "custom rom" version of android or a similar os. imagine a android OS on a blackberry BUT with all those great features from the blackberry smartphones like the calendar etc... all they have to do is to add some apps.... i love blackberry os and the playbook os but they have to turn it into a modern touch os to get developers on their plattform.
9900 and 9930 are great smartphones but only 1 or 1,5 day battery capacity?
wtf? this is a blackberry! this is a bold... i think it could be 15mm thick but have a 2000mah battery with 20 days standby or something. this is not a toy this is a blackberry
remeber your roots but put them modern ....
dont get multimedia... get a faster browser maybe some android apps
but a battery drain like the bold 9900 or torch 9810...
thats not a blackberry....
my 9780 has a 1500mah battery with 3 days and the 9900 has a 12xx mag...
wtf????
this is a blackberry!!!

I get they were asked, but I don't understand why RIM even bothered to respond. Keep it moving and get the job done.

This is exactly what I've been posting about, idiot Bloggers and Reporters, I tell you, these guys feel they can say anything, and reporting is down to personal opinions and bigotry. I wsih RIM could sue some of these jerks for slander.

Michaelaw

With all the delays in launching the OS 10 devices any reference to another possible cause should raise concern. Why can't RIM release one new OS 10 model in early 2012 that isn't 4G LTE and begin to restore some credibility? The other manufactuers are constantly "upgrading" their phone designs. By the time RIM does introduce their ultimate "superphone" in late 2012 it won't be so ultimate and they will have seen more loss of market share and more irrelevance to the consumer.

"...and certain other factors significantly influenced the anticipated timing for the BlackBerry 10 devices"

"And certain other factors". Hmmm. Yeah, covering their butts with a vague statement like that. Basically, "certain other factors" covers anything and everything.

I really feel for RIM

RIP ...RIM, you guys should put up till then shut up no more lame excuses as to why you blow.

I think RIM should purchase some semi conductor firm (e.g., Marvel )..
home made hardware and design is always better and faster.

Rumors, informants, and incomplete device releases aside. There is one way to shut up the naysayers- release a completed product ahead of schedule.

BGR is backed by Apple. Specifically Steve Wozniak.

Sadly you can't believe anything they say because ultimately it's all skewed in favour of Apple.

Geller sold his soul for cash a long time ago.

What about progress pertaining to products that are already out? Bricking? 2.0?

Why don't someone ask RIM who makes these chips that haven't been invented yet.
Then maybe we can confirm with the chip maker if such an LTE chip exist.
Sorry but I believe some of it is true...check RIM's track record with all the lies they told and I will start to believe it.
BGR said the phone would be delayed until Q3 2012 and everyone cursed them...now what.
They said Playbook OS2 would come out in Feb. 2012...guess what?
There is no BBX or BB10 phones...with all the negative press they would have shown something but they have nothing to show.
If they come out in Q3 2012 (big IF) it will be outdated because RIM will continue to use old technology like they've don in the pass.
Sorry I've moved on and all the other 4 BB in our house will soon.

Honestly,RIM should stop thinking that they are entitled. Last year,they fooled all of you. Look at the Blackberry Playbook,a great device but never pushed by RIM because they just assume it will sell. With these new Blackberry 7 devices like the 9900 and the 9810, they once again assumed they would sell. RIM needs to advertise thier product.Apple does,thats why they are successful.Every day on TV,on billboards,on radio and the internet there's an Apple ad.Or an ad showing off the Android OS. Even Windows Phone is getting advertised like crazy.I can count the number of BB ads I've seen in the past month on one hand.The CEO's at Waterloo need to wake up.Blackberry phones arent the forefront of smartphones anymore.iPhones are.Android OS is.Thats the movement now.So to Jim and Mike,take the reins.Advertise.Show people why we fell in love with Blackberries,why they are the prime communication device.If not,that 21% market share will shrink faster and faster and these 75 million subscribers with dwindle quickly too.

I call BS on RIM on this one. Let's say the Playbook's OS is essentially the same as BB10. Let's say the new BB10 phones are ready except for LTE.
Playbook OS 2.0 is coming in February. If everything were really ready, except for LTE, you wouldn't release a killer phone at that time? Really?

You "need" LTE do you? Well, lack of LTE doesn't have seem to hurt the iPhone, geeze, one of the best sellers is the iPhone 3GS!

I read big comment... pro/contra have been explained by many. This is my believe, so far the delay from BB have made them suffer. YES! nobody is perfect but this is also a marketing war, everyday you delay a product then a winning day for the competitor.

Look at samsung Galaxy in order to beat iPhone they'll do anything to win and they are doing quite well.

Now BB in other hands release PB after 6 months delayed and off course get run over by iPad2 and Samsung Galaxy Tab. Now OS2 is delayed yet again will they compete with iPad3 and Samsung next generation? Off course... will BB win? I think not...

BBX will have much much worse competition if it delayed till 3rd quarter most probably compete with iPhone 5 and again the next generation of Samsung. Will BBX win? I think not...

Again I'm no iPhone or Android phone fans and yes I owned PB and BB7 however base on my comparison both PB and BB7 cant compete with them.. SOOOOOO again its a marketing war and so far I dont see BB is doing something to win the war. They just keep on slowing down and surely but sure will destroy them.

Just my .02cents

It doesn't matter whether it is a problem with the chipset or with BB10. RIM would need to catchup with the rest of market. Unfortunately, competion is moving very fast. From my point of view, too fast for RIMs mgm. They got too fat and lazy with past success.
Google, Apple, Samsung, HTC seem to have much better management (probably not hard to beat RIM) and probably better developers.
All major competitors selling dual core CPUs these days. Fuck LTE, this a time to market game and not a beauty contest!
RIM took over QNX about 2 yrs ago. What have these guy been doing? Innovative companies would already work on version 1.5.

+1 if you still have faith in RIM

Can't spell douchebaggery without BGR.