∞ New QNX BlackBerry has no email or calendar

Written by

Gizmodo:

BlackBerry sales have been in the toilet, so RIM has been scrambling to get their much-anticipated first QNX-based phones to market. Very smart. But they may be pushing them out without BES/BIS email/calendar calendar support. That would be unfathomably stupid.

Is there no limit to the stupid at RIM?


  • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

    Perhaps RIM feels these phones have something more important to do than email and calendaring. 

    Do they make good pagers?

  • Guest

    … or good doorstops maybe?

  • Anonymous

    Try skipping stones.

  • http://www.facebook.com/gorskic Chris Gorski

    Quick quiz: Which company is better run: Nortel or RIM? My vote goes to Nortel.

  • http://www.smiley-dread.com Ian

    It seems that they can’t port the code. That would explain the whole playbook debacle.

  • BMWTwisty

    Oh, heck, they’ll sell dozens of ‘em!  Streamlined.  Yeah, that’s the ticket…

  • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

    When even Gizmodo gets to make a call like this, you’re basically fucked.
    Not that RIM could be even more fucked, but… Jizzmodo, sweet Zombie Jesus.

  • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

    When even Gizmodo gets to make a call like this, you’re basically fucked.
    Not that RIM could be even more fucked, but… Jizzmodo, sweet Zombie Jesus.

  • Anonymous

    So it’s a phone that makes calls.  How 1995 of them.

  • Anonymous

    So it’s a phone that makes calls.  How 1995 of them.

  • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

    Maybe they can bridge these new phones to a Playbook that’s bridged to an older Blackberry.

    • Jim H

      “Maybe they can bridge these new phones to a Playbook that’s bridged to an older Blackberry.”

      How silly of you. Why not bridge them directly to an iPhone?

      • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

        Man, I’m sure I can find an IR-DA equipped Ericsson T39m here somewhere. That’ll take it online.

      • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

        Man, I’m sure I can find an IR-DA equipped Ericsson T39m here somewhere. That’ll take it online.

      • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

        Because it needs to reflect the absurd complication of RIM itself. I’m picturing a room full of new Blackberry users, exchanging pdfs on SD cards.

        • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

          Oh, you like it kinky, eh?

          • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

            Fascinated. Remember the movie “Brazil”?

  • Zac Caslin

    As to your last question,  By the looks of it NO.