BGR is reporting RIM’s 1st QNX Blackberry, the Colt, is set to be released in Q1 2012

Jonathan S. Geller’s Aug 8^th article posted on the popular tech website BGR indicates how important timing is in the Super Phone race. Do we release early with compromises or do we wait & release the no compromise version of the Super Phone? According to Jonathan, RIM will go early with their first Blackberry ever to use Microsoft ActiveSync to connect to the Microsoft Exchange Server instead of the (BES) BlackBerry Enterprise Server.  The other suspected compromise is the Colt will be released with a single core processor.

This is not the 1^st time the RIM has launched a compromised product early. The 1st generation Playbook was launch without 3G wireless access or the ability to directly connect to the Microsoft Exchange Server with BES.

Apparently RIM is working on a QNX BES version, so let’s hope it will be ready the next generation Playbook & the Colt.

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