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RIM is going through hard times. According to the plan to optimize costs, which until the end of the fiscal year should allow the company to save about $ 1 billion, the State of the Canadian manufacturer of mobile devices should be reduced at least another couple of thousand people. According to news agencies, the reduction has already begun, and RIM employees receive notice of dismissal in groups of 10 people per day. In addition, one of the suppliers of RIM, Celestica company , has announced that in the next six months, all the services for this customer will be phased out.
According to the newspaper The Washington Post , citing comments by the representatives of RIM, BlackBerry smartphone next generation will be deprived of habitual physical keyboard - as well as the product of most competitors, it will get the touch screen. The device will be running the BlackBerry operating system 10, similar products in the future will have a keyboard, but for the first representative of the platform decided to make an exception. Previously, RIM had already reported that it is not going to abandon the use of the keyboard. However, some devices RIM will settle on touch screen.
Experts believe that the keyboard was the only property of smartphones BlackBerry, attracting the attention of consumers. In the segment of smartphones with touch screen from RIM so many strong competitors. Perhaps such an experiment can have a negative impact on sales of RIM products . Related Products :
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