By: Michelle Maisto, eWeek
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins narrowed the arrival of RIM’s BlackBerry 10 smartphones from “Q1” to “January,” in an interview with The Telegraph that yielded several notable nuggets. Research In Motion will release its first BlackBerry 10 smartphones in January, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins told The Telegraph, according to an interview published Aug. 2. Until now, the long-awaited platform and world-class new smartphones have been relegated to a vaguer future in “the first quarter of calendar 2013,” as Heins first told analysts during RIM’s June 28 earnings call. It was during that call that Heins announced the latest delay to the BlackBerry 10 launch and confirmed a plan to lay off 5,000—two pieces of information that, as much as RIM’s revenue or global growth, have fueled newly aggressive chatter about RIM’s demise.
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