Comments on: BlackBerry Colt with QNX being rushed to market without BES

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:55:00 +0000

Being Canadian I want to see RIM do well but I wonder how they can let such an industry leader slip so much. If I were the CEO (or one of the 2 CEOs) I would say, this QNX phone ships with email and calendar or everyone in this room can start job hunting!

By: Pfcsystems

Pfcsystems — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:41:00 +0000

Why would the QNX phone not have BBM or native mail, when the QNX Playbook will finally have this and the Android App Player come mid October at DEVCON?

By: s b

s b — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:33:00 +0000

Sounds like Blackberry is on a supersonic jet to nowhere!!! The new Torch and Bold touch will soon be released with the new Blackberry 7, but not upgradeable to QNX, a Playbook without email, and the Colt without BES. Hmmm… Seems like a lot of mistakes to me.

Apparently two heads (two CEO’s) is not better than one.

We’re on BES now, but if Blackberry continues on this sloppy path, we won’t be for long.

By: Scott Turner

Scott Turner — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:58:00 +0000

A blackberry without BES is hardly a blackberry at all.

By: Mleckman

Mleckman — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:34:00 +0000

SBMobile,
Yeah I know bu they have stated that it was launching in the fall. Their recent earnings report and the fact that Verizon and Sprint have openly stated that they are not getting them indicates that it might stall unless some of their functionality woes are solved with it. But the stalling may be linked to the BES issue that is “rumored” here.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:22:00 +0000

What 4G PlayBook? LMAO!

By: Countryboy200013

Countryboy200013 — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:24:00 +0000

The blackberrys havnt ben out that long but when my contract runs out with att that 9850 is mine cause one thing blackberry does get right is being able to call someone

By: Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:40:00 +0000

I didn’t report it touting it as absolute truth. I reported it as rumor and conjecture. I said “it looks like” and not “it is.” At this point, just like so many other things in this industry, we can’t *know* a heck of a lot. However, based on the snippets of information that we do get, it sounds like RIM is really struggling to get BES to work with QNX. The hope is that they will overcome this hurdle before launch, of course, but it doesn’t appear likely at this point.

By: Mleckman

Mleckman — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:37:00 +0000

David,

I believe you misunderstood my statement- The proof i was referring to was the Storm and Playbook launches which IMO (and only mine) were ill conceived and poorly executed. I was not referring to this particular article. I was speculating on Mr. Quan’s statement and IF it was true. If in fact Mr Quan’s information is pure “wishful thinking”, then Forbes and other online news feeds are jumping all over it, which lends to your rant.

By: DavidR

DavidR — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:39:00 +0000

“I would love to say that they’ve done the right thing but I wouldn’t have any proof.”
This seems to imply that there is some “proof” that the new QNX phones won’t ship with BES support. There is absolutely no evidence that this is the case.

Let me repeat that: There is no evidence to support the belief that the new QNX phones will ship without BES support.

Here that Michael Kwan? Stop reporting garbage from BGR as if it were gospel — It only leads to more fact-free articles from others repeating the same nonsense.