Struggling manufacturer Research In Motion is standing by its initial statement about the delayed release of BlackBerry 10, following a published report that the operating system is too flawed to release.
“RIM made a strategic decision to launch BlackBerry 10 devices with a new, LTE-based dual-core chip set architecture,” the company said in an e-mail Thursday. “As explained on our earnings call, the broad engineering impact of this decision and certain other factors significantly influenced the anticipated timing for the BlackBerry 10 devices. The anonymous claim suggesting otherwise is inaccurate and uninformed.”
RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said in an earnings call earlier this month that the release of BlackBerry 10 won’t be ready in the first half of 2012 because dual-core, long-term evolution chipsets to give the devices 4G data speeds would not be available in time.
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However, Boy Genius Report, citing an unnamed source described as a high-level RIM employee, reported Thursday that the delay is because “RIM is simply pushing this out as long as they can for one reason, they don’t have a working product yet.”
BGR’s source also said that looking at the current operating system used in RIM PlayBook tablets offers some insight into problems with e-mail and BlackBerry messaging that may affect phones using the upgrade, and that “there’s no room for a fourth ecosystem” of independently developed apps after Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.
But RIM said it “will not launch BlackBerry 10 devices until we know they are ready, and we believe this new chip set architecture is required to deliver the world class user experience that our customers will expect. Any suggestion to the contrary is simply false. ”
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