As part of its quarterly earnings
report, RIM announced that it will delay the launch of BlackBerry 10 yet again.
The next update to RIM's mobile operating system was promised by the end of
2012, but now the company says it won't release devices running on BlackBerry
10 until the first quarter of 2013.
"Over the past several
weeks, RIM’s software development teams have made major progress in the
development of key features for the BlackBerry 10 platform; however, the
integration of these features and the associated large volume of code into the
platform has proven to be more time consuming than anticipated," the
company said.
RIM reported a $518 million loss
for the company. It also said that it will slash 5,000 jobs as part of a
previously announced restructuring plan.