Research in Motion (RIM) is not doing so well lately. They recently announced that BlackBerry 10 has been pushed back to 2013, another nail in their ever closing coffin. Rumors have been swirling for a while about Amazon, Samsung, or perhaps our own Microsoft buying RIM. With that in mind the concept above has been created. It looks nice, but ultimately it’s missing a huge thing: the keyboard.
We have an abundance of Windows Phone’s with giant touchscreens. HTC, Samsung, and Nokia have been doing a fine job of that, and BackBerry isn’t going to have any more success with it. What we don’t have is phones with keyboards. If Microsoft does indeed buy RIM (a lofty expectation) it would be a waste to use them to create touchscreen slabs. Now a device with a great keyboard and some RIM enterprise stuff is another story…
concept via Ultralinx
