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“RIM is expected to announce the launch of the slider 9800 handset at a joint BlackBerry-AT&T Inc. event in New York next Tuesday morning,” Mordant reports. “‘The timing makes sense (for this to be the 9800 launch),’ said Avian Securities analyst Matt Thornton.”
Mordant reports, “RIM’s share of the North American market has been eroded by the easier-to-use touchscreen iPhone… Carrier AT&T, initially, is expected to get exclusive U.S. rights to sell the new BlackBerry handset, analysts said. ‘We expect the new RIM slider to receive ‘hero’ treatment from AT&T, and for the carrier to promote the product aggressively,’ Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum said in a note to clients.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “silverhawk” for the heads up.]
A new iphone killer. Yawn!
I seriously doubt it.
BB fans consider touch smartphones as “Anti-Blackberries”, and a non-touch smartphone can’t beat an iPhone. A lose-lose situation…
Huh. AT&T flogging this…. All the more reason for apple to look to other carriers.
ATT will have to be aggressive when they loose the iPhone contract.
“We expect the new RIM slider to receive ‘hero’ treatment from AT&T, and for the carrier to promote the product aggressively”
Of course! It’s not the device, it’s the marketing. A great campaign will dupe, err… convince the lusers, err… valued customers to stand in line to get this, uh, this… uh…
But really, think of it. If it really is an iPhone Killer, it must be some massively fsckin’ awesome device! I have no doubt that RIM have a winner on their hands… What’s that? A SLIDER? REALLY??? Heh…
What happened to the Storm
Oh NO! Somebody has an iPhone KILLER!!
Oh no, not that.
An iPhone killer(s), they are all “iPhones” made by different companies. Lucky for them Apple give the recipe out so they all cook the same dish. Too bad Apple will have to change the recipe again so we can get a new dish.
Too many cooks in the kitchen and the food will surely suffer!
KFC
@hotinplaya. Storm got blown away like Toto and Dorothy
There’s something wrong with putting the words “anal…rim…unveil” in the same headline.
it’s like as soon as they dub something an iPhone killer it’s doomed.
@acid:
thanks for making me spew out an ice cold coke out of my nose. that hurts….
iPhone must be a cat.
Slider. Let us know how that works out for you RIMM.
LOL.
As a frequent reader of tech forums, I have noticed that the number one misspelled word is not what you’d think:
“lose”, as in “lose market share”, is frequently spelled “loose” — for example in the post above. Loose as in “goose”. “juice”. I see this like 5 times a day.
Once you notice it, you realize maybe 2 out of 5 people don’t know how to spell “lose”.
So how to you spell “looser”? haha just a joke.
An iPhone killer..Is that with or without the itsy bitsy Blackberry keyboard .
All those RIM apps just waiting for us makes me want to… Wait I feel it it’s ..
It’s .. A slider in my underwear.!!
They misspelled the heading.
They meant to say ” iPhone Is A Killer”
Killer Schmiller, they’re all posers that cannot replicate nor defeat the killer Apple ecosystem.
Do these companies realize it is not the iPhone that sells, it is the apps and iTunes that people flock too!! What a bunch of morons!
Look honey, I can write some words to make stock values bounce up and down. That’s what analysts do. Reliable sources? No, we just hang out in the back alleys and think of stuff.
I give it a month…The only thing it will KILL is RIM!!
Add it to the MDN crossed-out iPhone-killer list. That list puts the competition’s situation in perspective.
Why are all the competitors to the iPhone dubbed “iPhone Killers” by MDN. None of these guys say they are going to take share away from the iPhone, they are just competing for new customers from other smart phones (including their own current clients).
It would be like saying “A new McDonald’s killer opened up as a new hamburger joint started selling burgers today”. By no means is it trying to kill McDonald’s, it’s just trying to sell hamburgers.
Without a good OS underneath it is still just a blackberry.
IPhone killer? NOT!!!!