BlackBerry 9000 Looks almost like an IPhone
Waterloo (eCanadaNow) -Â If a device was intended to be a clone of the iPhone, then the new Research In Motion Ltd.’s (RIM)Â BlackBerry Device would be a good candidate.
The newly released Blackberry 9000 is a device that appears to be so closely based on the Apple iPhone that it is nearly a clone.
“Look at those picks and tell us RIM CEO Jim Balsillie didn’t slap an iPhone down in front of his designers and say ‘Give me something exactly like this,’” Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget wrote.
This has caused quite a bit of consternation on the part of Apple, Inc, and there are already cries of patient and copyright infringement.
The Canadian technology company RIM is being accused of ripping off their current BlackBerry 9000 design from the Apple iPhone design.
Industry insiders speculate that the similarities are not accidental, that it appears as if RIM designers were sat in a room with an iPhone and asked to make something closely like it.
The differences are small but notable:Â The Blackberry 9000 appears to still have a superior keyboard and less of a multi touch screen format than the iPhone, but this appears to be about the only large difference.
For years the BlackBerry has dominated the business communications market, and with the ease and popularity of the Apple iPhone it was believed that Blackberry went back to the drawing board in an attempt to compete.
However, their new effort appears largely a copy of the iPhone, without the touch screen easy assess that the iPhone offers. It will be interesting to see how the situation plays itself out.