There’s no shortage of tasty iPhone rumors running round his week – 3G iPhones coming to Europe mid-2008 and plenty of others. The One that caught my eye today though is the idea that Research In Motion (RIM) – makers of Blackberry – are meant to be getting ready to make some moves to take on the iPhone.
According to a report in Unstrung, RIM is preparing a new 9000-series that will be a big step away from their hard-core business focus, will boast touch screens and will be ‘similar in form factor to the iPhone’.
The 9000-series is described by Carmi Levy, an analyst at AR Communications Inc., as "the future of the BlackBerry franchise," a complete breakaway from the device’s business roots.
I don’t know about you all, but I can’t think of anyone I could less imagine challenging the iPhone than RIM. Blackberries have always been known as killer email devices, but their design is far from elegant, and their user interface always seems pretty clunky to me as well. RIM have been very strong at producing enterprise class systems, but I don’t believe they’ve done anything that shows any great design flair.
Somehow I just can’t picture an ‘iBerry’ iPhone killer device …
Source: Unstrung via iPhone Alley
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