More applications on the BlackBerry. Samsung buys them? Or maybe Google? - Wyborcza.biz

Before the advent of the first iPhone and the prevalence of other phones with touch screen BlackBerry devices were almost hegemonic power in the market segment of advanced cells. First, in business circles, and then also among younger users who appreciate above all the multimedia support and is still a great communicator, which worked perfectly with the physical keyboard.

Class=”txt_srodtytul”> excess optimism

The heads of the Canadian company RIM, the manufacturer of these devices, apparently assumed that this situation will continue, and devices with a touch screen will not be able to threaten the position of their equipment. That was a mistake, because in a few years have passed since the time when the late Steve Jobs today showed the first iPhone, BlackBerry’s market share dropped to microscopic size. The company itself is today, but as a warning to all players in the market for new technologies.

If not you, then who?

For months, the company BlackBerry (RIM name is no longer used) sends an unambiguous signal that is looking for a strategic investor, and preferably someone who’d bought it. Among the potential applications until recently was mentioned among others Microsoft, but after I bought the department dealing with the Nokia mobile phones (paid for the 5.44 billion), it is less and less likely. The list of potential applications thus appears as Chinese computer maker Lenovo. Service CNN Money reports, however, that the company may be also interested in such giants as Google, Cisco, SAP, Intel, LG and Samsung.

strength in patents

Why great coping companies like Google and Samsung would have to spend money on still losing in importance BlackBerry? Because the Canadian company still lies a lot of potential, but rather he is not releasing another phone on the market, because even put on the market this year, very good cameras with the new operating system the company did not bring the expected increase in sales. The main magnet BlackBerry are patents. The company should be a number of solutions that continue to appreciate many users as mentioned communicator and great service e-mail.

BlackBerry declined to comment on reports of a possible sale to another company.