Developer | Current TCL (worldwide) BB Merah Putih (Indonesia) Optiemus Infracom (India) Former BlackBerry Ltd. |
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Manufacturer | Current TCL (worldwide) BB Merah Putih (Indonesia) Optiemus Infracom (South Asia) Former BlackBerry Ltd. |
Type | Handheld devices |
Release date | January 19, 1999; 20 years ago |
Operating system | Android, QNX (as BlackBerry 10), BlackBerry OS |
Online services | BlackBerry World, Google Play Store, BlackBerry Messenger |
Website | www.blackberry.com |
BlackBerry users globally: | As of: |
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534,000 | March 1, 2003 |
1,069,000 | February 28, 2004 |
2,510,000 | February 26, 2005 |
4,900,000 | March 4, 2006 |
8,000,000 | March 3, 2007 |
14,000,000 | March 1, 2008 |
25,000,000 | February 28, 2009 |
41,000,000 | February 27, 2010 |
70,000,000 | August 27, 2011 |
77,000,000 | March 3, 2012 |
80,000,000 | December 1, 2012 |
76,000,000 | March 2, 2013[122] |
72,000,000 | June 1, 2013[123] |
79,000,000 | September 2013 |
76,000,000 | November 2013 |
71,000,000 | March 2014 |
69,000,000 | May 2014 |
60,000,000 | September 2014 |
56,000,000 | November 2014 |
37,000,000 | February 2015[124] |
33,000,000 | June 2015[125] |
30,000,000 | September 2015[126] |
25,000,000 | December 2015[127] |
23,000,000 | March 2016[4] |
20,000,000 | June 2016[128] |
18,000,000 | September 2016[129] |
16,000,000 | December 2016[130] |
14,000,000 | March 2017 |
11,000,000 | May 2017 |
However with the rumors suggesting multiple Android devices in the works, we have to wonder where they will find the time to launch BB10 devices.
Slow browsing, few apps, and an embarrassing service outage. Can BlackBerry recover from its biggest crisis yet?
Research In Motion can ill afford embarrassing service interruptions.
This outage couldn't have come at a worse time,' says Francisco Jeronimo, research manager at analyst IDC. 'It harms BlackBerry's brand. Corporations, users and mobile operators are now asking themselves: how reliable is RIM?' Activist shareholders, egged on by financial analysts, are hammering on the boardroom door, calling for Lazaridis and Balsillie to leave. Chief among them is Vic Alboini, who runs Jaguar Financial, a merchant bank which claims to have support from 12 of RIM's top 20 stockholders for a change at the top.
As RIM battled to contain a three-day outage of its email service, which has spread from Europe to Africa and now North and South America, affecting many of its 70 million users, Jaguar called for Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who are co-chief executives and co-chairmen, to step down. [. . . ] RIM declined to comment on shareholder unrest.
The company is also taking a charge of $50 million for an embarrassing October outage of email and Web services that lasted days for millions of overseas BlackBerry users. It briefly spread to the U.S. and Canada before the company was able to contain the damage.
You read that right – RIM just announced that its forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook will support both BlackBerry Java and Android apps.
Android apps won't come from Google Play itself, but rather Android developers will simply have to repackage, code sign and submit their BlackBerry Java and Android apps to BlackBerry App World from where users will be able to download the apps.
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), seeking to boost the appeal of its BlackBerrys and revive slowing sales, plans to enable models expected next year to run applications built for Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android operating system, three people familiar with the plan said.
RIM will add access to Android apps on BlackBerry phones that run its new QNX operating system, Bloomberg reports.
The Canadian company plans to have the Android player already in the QNX-running phones when they go on sale rather than available as an upgrade, the report said.
We're still waiting for Research in Motion to allow Android apps to run on its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, as promised last March, but a new report says these apps will eventually run on future BlackBerry phones as well.
Rui Brites, the director for product management in Africa told iMaverick that the new BBX system was RIM's way of securing its future. 'With BBX, we've opened up in a big way,' he said. 'We have over 400,000 developers worldwide and have now developed tools for Android developers to submit their apps to the BlackBerry App World without needing to recode.'
The company introduced its BlackBerry BBX operating system on Tuesday, combining features from the existing BlackBerry platform and the QNX software it bought last year. The system, which doesn't have a release date, includes new programming tools like HTML5 designed to make building apps easier.
The issue here is one of personal comfort,' one of the participants in that meeting, Donald Reid, the department's senior coordinator for security infrastructure, wrote afterward in an email that described Clinton's inner circle of advisers as 'dedicated [BlackBerry] addicts.
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