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“We believe that BlackBerry cannot succeed if we tried to be everybody’s darling and all things to all people,” Heins said. “Therefore, we plan to build on our strength.”

RIM also stated they may be considering partnering with others in order to bring their services to consumers.

“We can’t do everything ourselves, but we can do what we’re good at,” RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said

With the Playbook able to use Android apps, RIM has already dabbled in going outside their own failed ecosystem. Maybe we will see them form stronger relationships with others that have been successful in the market.

This new strategy isn’t the only major change as Jim Balsillie, one time co-CEO and co-founder of RIM, has resigned.

At this point I think RIM is just trying to get there feet back on the ground and collect themselves. Will this be the end of RIM in the consumer space? Only time will tell, but looks like we won’t see much from them in the immediate future.

via [Associated Press]

In other exciting (sarcasm) patent news, Apple, Microsoft and RIM were also granted the purchase of 6,000 Nortel patents by the DoJ. The three companies, along with others, teamed up to create “Rock Star Bidco” and collectively bid $4.5 Billion for these patents.

Now that every one is all “patented up”, things might get more interesting since all sides will have all kinds of BS to throw at one another. Hopefully they can just work out license agreements and everyone can go back to innovating instead of dragging this stuff to court.

via [Engadget and Ars Technica]

RIM has stated that thier current stratgy to move forward with a new OS will remain as planned, but Heins makes sure to point out “It’s going to be continuity, but it’s not going to be a standstill.”

via [The Verge]

AT&T has always been the carrier known to get the latest Blackberry phones previously, but now Sprint is getting some flagship devices from RIM this fall, the Bold 9930 and the Torch 9850. Both phones will be sporting RIM’s latest iteration of their OS Blackberry 7.

The new Bold is Blackberry’s thinnest smartphone to date coming in at 10.5MM thick and sports the famous physical QWERTY keyboard that most Blackberry owners have been known to love. The newest Torch has the biggest screen that has been on a Blackberry phone to date at 3.7 inches.

These phones processors have been pushed up to 1.2GHZ and have Liquid Graphics Technology for fast and smooth performance and very responsive touchscreen. It sounds like Blackberry is pushing the right way in this new hardware but it is more of the same. Is this what they need paired with Sprint and other carriers to stay prevalent in the game?

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Show Notes After the break…

According to BGR RIM is looking into implementing the same virtual machine, Dalvik VM, that currently runs Android for use with the Playbook. Technically this means that the Blackberry Playbook as well as other QNX devices may be able to run Android apps! Of course this is all speculation at this point, as RIM has not officially chosen a Java VM yet.

Pretty wild stuff right? What’s next, Nic and I agreeing on virtual media? Vic landing a girl? Android on iPhone….oh wait.