Hong Kong - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the launch of the new BlackBerry® Bold™ 9790 smartphone in Hong Kong. The powerful BlackBerry Bold 9790 features a compact design and offers users a fully loaded, high performance smartphone with the dual benefits of a high resolution touch display and a highly tactile keyboard. The new smartphone is available today from authorized partners in Hong Kong.
“We are pleased to introduce the new BlackBerry Bold 9790 – yet another high performance smartphone powered by the new BlackBerry 7 operating system,” said Urpo Karjalainen, Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific at Research In Motion
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Have your peashooters at the ready! Plants vs Zombies by PopCap Games & EA Games is launching today for PlayBook in BlackBerry App World. The app will start showing up in App World at noon EST and roll out over the course of the afternoon.
Plants vs Zombies will have you cultivating more than just your green thumb in no time. Think fast and plant faster to stem a zombie attack and save your home in this action-strategy PopCap game.
Key features include:
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Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) is launching two new smartphones in the Caribbean the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9790 and BlackBerry® Curve™ 9380. Both smartphones are based on the BlackBerry® 7 operating system (OS).
The new smartphones offer impressively slim and stylish designs with enhanced communications, multimedia, productivity and social connectivity features. The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is both powerful and compact, offering users a fully loaded, high performance smartphone with the dual benefits of a high resolution touch display and a highly tactile keyboard. The BlackBerry Curve 9380 is the first-ever BlackBerry Curve smartphone with a touch display. It continues to deliver the powerful social experiences, ease-of-use and smaller handset size that distinguish the BlackBerry Curve family, while also offering Curve users the choice of a larger display and an all-touch design.
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Netherlands - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced the launch of the new BlackBerry® Bold™ 9790 in the Netherlands. Powered by the BlackBerry® 7 operating system (OS), the new smartphone is available from T-Mobile, Vodafone, KPN, Hi, Telfort, BelCompany, Mediamarkt, GSMWEB and Telecombinatie.
BlackBerry Bold 9790 with Touch Display and Keyboard
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France - SFR and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 in Pure White will be available February 7, 2012 to SFR customers through the SFR online store (www.sfr.fr). All other SFR points of sale are expected to have the attractive new model from mid-February 2012. As a limited time launch promotion from SFR, the Pure White model will be available for €49,90* with an Edition Spéciale Carré Absolu International service plan. The new model will also be available to SFR Business Team** customers.
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BlackBerry 7 and 7.1 OS Achieve FIPS 140-2 Certification
Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that BlackBerry® smartphones running on the powerful new BlackBerry® 7 and BlackBerry® 7.1 Operating Systems (OS) have been awarded FIPS 140-2 certification by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC). FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 is recognized by the U.S. and Canadian governments and is required under the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA).
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Hong Kong - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the launch of the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone in Pure White for customers in Hong Kong. The stunning new smartphone can be pre-ordered today at http://hk.blackberry.com/w9900preorder with expected availability in mid-February. The first 500 customers who pre-order the new handset will receive the Jabra EASYGO White Bluetooth Headset* with their purchase.
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is the thinnest BlackBerry® smartphone yet at only 10.5mm, and the first to offer the perfect union of a high performance keyboard and touch display integrated within the iconic BlackBerry Bold design. The new BlackBerry Bold 9900 is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to include built-in support for NFC (Near Field Communications), a new technology that is enabling many new and exciting capabilities, including the ability to make mobile payments, pair with NFC-enabled accessories or read SmartPoster tags with a simple tap of the smartphone.
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Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced general availability of BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry® smartphones and allows customers to manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud. The service is available at no additional charge to current medium-sized or enterprise subscribers of the Office 365 suite or standalone Exchange Online and works with BlackBerry smartphones on business or consumer data plans.
“RIM is pleased to launch BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365. This new cloud-based option allows customers to cost-effectively support mobility across their organizations and easily manage and secure their BlackBerry deployments,” said Alan Panezic, Vice President, Enterprise Product Management and Marketing at Research In Motion.
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