It might seem slightly perverse for RIM to produce a clamshell Blackberry when almost every other phone maker’s attitude seems to be ‘been there, done that’ while they focus on sliders and candybars. But there is method in the madness.
RIM’s intention with the Pearl range has been to broaden the appeal of the Blackberry beyond its corporate beginnings and to make it just as much about all the other things that people buy phones for – style, fun, camera, music player, web access, and email, still the Blackberry’s USP.
