Former RIM executive Raymond Reddy, who’s left RIM to start his own company says he’s not expecting the Playbook to survive past launch.

His insider information reveals the device is crippled by its dependance on being tethered to a blackberry and lack of developer support and an antiquated “QNX” operating system that was originally dubbed the first web browser to fit on a floppy back in 1998.

To read more, see the interview with Reddy in Business Insider magazIne.

The big question on a ton of bloggers minds! I know it’s bugging me, fact is I wanted badly to know the answer and a few seconds ago it just hit me in the face like a ton of bricks!

No way!!!

What’s the Essex (Tour 2) 9650 device made of anyway? Apparently it’s really more of a mistake being repaired… The gyst was that due to timing they couldnt’ make the original Tour with a trackpad and Wifi just due to trying to quickly get the thing on the market… Now the Essex Tour 2 9650 does come with these features…

But what’s under the hood, you ask?

A Qualcomm 528Mhz Processor… Same as the original Tour.. Meaning that The Bold 9700 is still nearly 100Mhz faster than the Tour and Tour 2 models giving it more power and speed to run OS 5.0 applications.
It does have the same 3.1 megapixel camera as the Bold 2 (9700) and many other features are notably the same except of course size and asthetic design. The Essex has a bit more chrome going on than the Blackberry Bold 2 9700 packs.

The big question that will drive the dividing line between folks that keep the 9700 and those that don’t will probably be OpenGL support, and it’s still questionable whether this one will have the feature or not.

I think the Tour2 Will support OpenGL… It’s running the same CPU core as the Curve 8530 (which apparently should have OpenGL) and a very similar platform… Only time and new info will tell.

Thanks to Crackberry, the Blackberry Presenter was completely demoed at CES 2010 and on display for all to see. Seriously check it out, it’s actually a really neat video. The interesting thing is that each presenter has a unique ID so you could actually run several at once. Shows all the animations it’s capable of and more.

Apparently all the major blogs are pointing out a planned outage for Rogers and RIM themselves. This will affect internet service and enterprise email (BES and BIS). The window of down time should be Start Time: 02:00 AM (EDT) End Time: 06:00 AM (EDT).

Can’t really complain as I’ll be asleep for part of it…  But it only makes sense to pass the message on to as many as possible so no one feels out of the loop.

This is all part of routine maintenance and fixes being performed on the infrastructure. Basically, whether your registering a new device, roaming, sending or receiving emails or trying to browse the web, you wont be able to. At least you know about it though.

Blackberry development blog tells us all the details surrounding how many big improvements were made to the development environment for Blackberry software. Why should we, the average user care? It’s interesting and it shows us where the platform we’re married to is going…

It also gives us power users who are constantly thursting for the next BIG THING to see how that’s coming along etc.. anyway.. Check it out…

Rumors are floating around the web that os 5.0 will come available for the Bold 9000… That its one week away.
According to many sources, RIM claimed they’d have it rolled out before the end of 2009, which of course is very very near….

I sure hope that’s true. They’re still selling the device, now in white too.

Its a much needed upgrade and I hope battery life improvements we saw on the Bold 9700 come along with it. But, if it does come out soon for the Bold 9000 I will be doing the upgrade on my spare as it’d be nice to see how it runs on it compared to how it runs on the Bold 9700…
What about you? Will you do the update if RIM rolls out OS 5.0 to the Bold 9000?

P.S. This week we removed Google Adsense from the site, hope that keeps the site clean for everyone! It’s really about the content more than the revenue ideally…

Daniel J Deyette

Research In Motion filed it’s Q3 Report, showing just how popular and profitable they truly are. Based on the run of media and lack of devices they showed for the Bold 9700 when it first came out, it’s no surprise that they’re doing better than anyone could have imagined… In fact, reports of doing more sales than the iPhone on the Curve models… The curve in my opinion is really more of a college kid phone than a business tool – lacking WIFI and other handy on the road tools.

Interesting note, RIM sold their 75 millionth Blackberry, showing exactly what kind of strength this company really holds!

Revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2010 was $3.92 billion, up 11% from $3.53 billion in the previous quarter and up 41% from $2.78 billion in the same quarter of last year. The revenue breakdown for the quarter was approximately 82% for devices, 14% for service, 2% for software and 2% for other revenue.   During the quarter, RIM shipped approximately 10.1 million devices.

Fact is, we’re the proud owners of devices that are manufactured by a very healthy company with quite a strong future ahead of it!

Daniel J Deyette