BlackBerry may be berry good with new OS

A new BlackBerry, but more importantly, a new BlackBerry operating system upgrade, is coming. "Yawn," you say? Don't be too quick to dismiss Research In Motion and its sturdy line of smart phones.

On Tuesday, the company, in conjunction with AT&T, is expected to announce a new touch-slider phone, the BlackBerry Bold 9800, which will likely use a new OS, version 6. Indications are that 6 will be an exponential improvement from OS 5, including a badly needed re-do of the BlackBerry Web browser, which is painfully slow and frustrating to use.

The Web browser is a metaphor for BlackBerrys themselves — often kludgy, sluggish and difficult to use, especially when compared to the iPhone and phones using the Android operating system. But tabbed browsing — which lets you keep one Web page in view while looking at another — is finally coming to the BlackBerry browser, and so is speed, with the new browser described as being much quicker.

Perhaps RIM is just catching up to where the iPhone and Android are, but it would be foolish to count RIM out — especially as it still retains the No. 1 spot in the United States as a smart phone platform, with 41.7 percent of the market at the end of May, according to comScore.

That leading edge has been getting nibbled away, slowly but surely, first by the iPhone, introduced in 2007, and now by Android, which has come on like gangbusters in the past year, helped by several high-profile phones including the Motorola Droid, HTC Droid Incredible and HTC Evo.

RIM's market share was down four-tenths of a percent from what it had been three months earlier, comScore said; at the end of December 2009, RIM had a 41.6 percent market share, and at the end of September, 2009, a 42.6 percent share.

"Mobile operating systems have become the key ingredient in the highly competitive mobile device market," said Stephen Drake, IDC's vice president of mobility and telecom, earlier this year

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