“Research In Motion announced two new BlackBerrys this week — the Bold 9790 and Curve 9380,” Eric Zeman reports for InformationWeek. “Both follow the well-worn design path set by generations of BlackBerrys while bringing little new to the bloodline.”
“The Bold 9790 is a traditional BlackBerry, offering a 2.45-inch display and a full QWERTY keyboard for messaging and emails,” Zeman reports. “The 9380 gets rid of the keyboard entirely and is a full touch phone. The display measures 3.2-inches and has 480 x 360 pixels at 188 pixels per inch.”
Zeman reports, “While both devices are no doubt fine business machines, they are also the same-old, same-old from Research In Motion, which is clearly treading water until it can get its BBX-based BlackBerrys to the market. Neither breaks any new ground in terms of design, appearance, or capabilities.”
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I thought it was “Snozberries!”
*raises Aviators*
…Mother of God…
I thought it was “Lack”berries.
480 x 360 pixels at 188 pixels per inch. Very impressive. Canadians don’t like pixels a lot.
Does anyone even care anymore? The lack of comments says no.
Plural of Blackberry is “Blackberrys”? I was sure it ended with “ies”…
It would be, if we were talking about the fruit. When using the word as a proper noun (i.e. name of person, place, organization), the y does not change to ies. Similarly, “There are three Robbys in the room.” Not “three Robbies.”
correct.
If they are all females, would it be “three Robbis”?
What if it was a mix of males & females? Or would it simply be “three people”?
Three Robi’s walk into a bar…
So what is the point for RIM to release this same old same old POS that brings nothing significant to its existing POS line? Whats the purpose?
Wow, “SnoozeBerrys” was InformationWeek’s headline. I thought it was just MDN’s. Impressive.
IW is getting a bit more antic and relevant outside the ‘enterprise’, nice to notice.
The Bold 9790 and Curve 9380?
Wow, just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
It looks like RIM hired Sony’s Vice President of marketing.
Cool more choices!