Yesterday, we mentioned that Amazon now offers the BlackBerry Torch 9800 for $99 with a 2-year contract. What we forgot to mention was that the new pricing is down from the previous $199. Apparently, RIM decided to slash off $100 from the original price due to low sales.
Reviews say that it is the best BlackBerry RIM has released so far but still not better than the iPhone 4 and other Android handsets. Die-hard BlackBerry users may be happy with this unit but it may not convince others to be converted.
From $199 to $99 in a week is certainly not great news for RIM but good for those BlackBerry users who are thinking of upgrading their smartphones.
[Link] [Link] [Link]
Related articles:
- RIM rolls out PlayBook 2.0 (February 8th, 2012)
- Amazon Retail Store to open soon? (February 7th, 2012)
- Video game revenue down for Amazon (February 1st, 2012)
- Official Twitter and Facebook-integration on BBM rolling out soon? (February 1st, 2012)
- New RIM CEO Heins has high hopes for the company (January 30th, 2012)
- BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981 coming soon (January 25th, 2012)
- RIM to release more BlackBerry devices, new PlayBook (January 25th, 2012)
- Number of tablet owners doubled over the holidays (January 24th, 2012)
- [TechBusiness] RIM does some shuffling, Thorsten Heins now CEO (January 23rd, 2012)
- Android and iOS will dominate the US smartphone market (January 18th, 2012)
Read more on TechFever about: Amazon, BlackBerry, RIM
