A bright, handy new BlackBerry
For a little Canadian company that most laymen have never heard of, Research In Motion has had quite an impact.
More than 3.5 million people, primarily in white-collar jobs on the East and West Coasts, clutch its BlackBerry cell phone/e-mail devices on planes, trains and automobiles.
People become so dependent on being in continuous corporate contact that they call these little machines CrackBerrys. And people spend so much time flailing away at their tiny Tom Thumb keyboards that the American Society of Hand Therapists has issued an alert--this is not a joke--about a painful condition nicknamed BlackBerry Thumb.
Don't look now, but it's all about to get worse--or better, depending on your point of view. On Tuesday, RIM unveiled the BlackBerry 8700c, a thoroughly modernized version of a gizmo whose technologies were rock-solid but a tad behind the times. It goes on sale Nov. 21.
BlackBerrians shouldn't worry. The new version is still very much a BlackBerry. After all, the only components RIM changed were the screen, keyboard, battery, speaker, processor, software and price (now $300, available at first only from Cingular). The headphone jack was left pretty much alone.
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