subject: RIM is a good first quarter, but revenue does not meet expectations, two new devices from [print this page] How fanatics phone Wall Street traders are very variable. I demand excellence both groups. RIM has been higher than expected profit for the fiscal first quarter, $1.38 per share compared to estimates of $1.34. But time still fell on the news because the $4240000000 revenue, while 24% year on year, was the expected $4,350,000,000. The good news was that the phone shipments grew by 43% during the three months to a record 11.2 million phones, bringing the total number of BlackBerry phones shipped to over 100 million units. Showing a good handle on costs, profit margins were 45.4%, compared with 44.5%. BlackBerry 4.9 million new accounts were opened in the district, bringing the total to around 46 million people.
company said it will have two new mobile phones this year, one in summer and one in the fall. When no model numbers were listed, most BlackBerry fans hope that soon the company starts the Bold 9800, which is to be a touch screen model with a sliding QWERTY keyboard portrait. The phone will run on BlackBerry OS 6.0 with the new WebKit browser that RIM is working on. Bold 9800 rose nice buzz online companies, such as reported , to be released in AT T as a manufacturer of the strongest competition for the iPhone and the new batch of super-specd phones Android.
RIM BlackBerry Bold 9800 Preliminary data
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