One of RIM's Hardware Makers to Stop Making BlackBerries
Jun 18, 2012, 7:39 AM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Jun 18, 2012, 7:41 AM
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Celestica, an original device manufacturer that has for years built BlackBerries, servers, and other hardware for Research In Motion, will "wind down" its manufacturing services for RIM. The company said in a statement that the transition away from RIM's products will take three to six months to complete, and it expects to take a restructuring charge of less than $35 million. Last month, RIM warned that it will have to write-down $1 billion of inventory of unsold BlackBerry smartphones, which indicates it has a significant surplus of hardware at the moment.
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I guess they could take a smaller lose by offering them to prepaid and smaller regional carriers at a discounted rate. Hell, even the larger carriers could push these devices as a smart phone on pay-as-you-go plans.
prepaid, 3rd world markets? all good ideas
Vmac39 said:...
With so many devices unsold, what are they going to do with them, especially with them trying to push out new devices running Blackberry OS 10?
I guess they could take a smaller lose by offering them to prepaid and
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But I think the main problem selling handsets is simply the fact that Blackberry ent...
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