RIM’s Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said in an interview with PCMag that while “the multicore platform is currently perfect for tablets,” BlackBerry just isn’t ready to jump into the dual-core smartphones pool alongside LG, Samsung, Motorola et al. He cited “battery life, size, weight, thickness and cost” as reasons for delaying the faster processor speed. [PCMag via BGR via TechRadar]
Andrew
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 12:06 AMooh, tech fail. Multicore processing offers greater flexibility in power management which results in efficiency and longer battery life. Size, weight and thickness could all potentially be less.
Travis New
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 2:25 AMThrough work(Telstra) I get a black and I’ve had a 9000, 9700 and now a Torch. They are useless for anything other than BBM and email. For a UI that is taken from the early 2000 era with such low res you would think it would zip through anything.
Wrong. Slow. They shot themselves in the foot when enterprise IT idiots(not all of you but you know who I mean) down a black list for security which block EVERYTHING aside from calls/email/text then the phone seems useless to the average consumer. Sure they’re doing great in the East most likely because they spend more money on advertisements. But here smaller market share so they don’t spend which turns into negative reaction which means smaller markets so they don’t spend, it’s a dumb cycle and they have only themselves. Oh and the whole not pulling their finger out would be the other issue.