The official announcement from RIM just came out earlier today:
 

Blackberry has been slow in adopting 3G in all of its mobile phones. This means that many Blackberry users are still left alone with EGDE connections and even people using 3G are waiting for more data performance for their Blackberry device.

He is not just the president of one of the most influental countries in the world, he is probably also the biggest BlackBerry addict compared to all other statesman. When Barack Obama took over the oval office he declared that he will not move in without his BlackBerry and the US government has set up a dedicated infrastructure to prevent spies from intercepting Obama’s BlackBerry messages.

Dubai is the center for the economic development in the Middle East but soon thousands of business and private customer might not be able to use their BlackBerry anymore.

The operating system on your smartphone is one of the central elements on a smartphone and with the recent improvements on Android and iOS from Apple, RIM and it’s BlackBerry starts to look old. But RIM is not sleeping and they have already geared up for a new and significantly improved version of the operating system for BlackBerry devices.