Palm And RIM Team Up With China Telecom

on 11/23/2009, filed in Home > CellPhones

When you talk about the market for cellphones everybody looks at China as the most delectable, so RIM and Palm must be fairly happy that word on the street is that they’ve managed to set up a deal with China Telecom, which will see their phones on said carrier somewhere between the end of 2009 or early in 2010. With an estimated 700 million subscribers in China, just a sliver of that would be a lot of money to anybody.

RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

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