BlackBerry for Kids? Child asks RIM

by The PocketBerry Team

15 July 2009 View Comments

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At the annual general shareholders’ meeting at Canada’s Research in Motion on Tuesday, a child asked among a huge audience “are you going to make a phone more for kids so that my Mom will let me get one?”

This question was of course addressed to the RIM Co-Chief Executives Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis as they had to cook up some sort of response for the infant. Lazaridis then spoke out saying “there’s lots of opportunity and, you know, if the current BlackBerrys aren’t acceptable to your mother, hopefully the next ones will.”

At the otherwise uneventful shareholder meeting, RIM said it was advancing its campaign to win over more people to its devices, which includes sponsorship of the U2 360 Tour by one of the world’s most popular rock bands ever.

The RIM CEOs said they spent the last 25 years, since RIM was founded, catering to highly demanding industries and corporations seeking true push email for the workplace, and now for the past three years to the general consumer market trying to get everyone onto the BlackBerry device. Checking email has become a very universal activity as well need access to it where ever we are because we make it that way.

Source: Yahoo! News

-by Otoniel Bruno