If you rely on Research in Motion's BlackBerry smartphones, it's time to prep your exit strategy. RIM is in serious decline, and the slide has accelerated dramatically in recent weeks. The company has made massive layoffs, its stock price has plummeted -- a sign of investors losing faith -- and most analysts doubt very much its repeatedly promised BlackBerry 10 OS will be the Hail Mary that outclasses Apple's iOS or Google's Android.
The likelihood of RIM going bankrupt or becoming a skeleton of itself jumped significantly late last week when RIM revealed that BlackBerry 10 has been delayed yet again, now to early 2013, a year later than originally predicted. By then, iOS 6 and Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" will be well established, and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 will have debuted, offering for the first time enterprise security and management features that may finally near what iOS and Android offer. It seems unlikely users will desire the BlackBerry 10 in those circumstances.
DDR3 1333 MHz SDRAM, 2 x SO-DIMM socket for expansion up to 8 G SDRAM
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 520M with 1GB DDR3 VRAM
Monitor(s) Displays
15.6" 16:9 HD (1366x768) LED Backlight
Hard Drives
500GB 5400rpm/7200rpm
Case
Aluminum Blue
Keyboard
Built in
Mouse
HP 2.4 GHz Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse
Other Info
Qualcomm Atheros AR9002WB-1NG Wireless Network Adapter
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter
Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
