All Entries Tagged With: "Japan"

NTT DoCoMo Pulls Bold from Shelves Due to Overheating

Last week Japan’s NTT DoCoMo halted sales of the BlackBerry Bold.  This was due to reports of the phone over heating.  Fortunately only 4,000 devices were sold then they pulled them from the shelves so RIM could fix the problem.  The Bold keyboard was reported to heat up while in use and while charging.  Nobody [...]

Japan Will go Bold Early 2009

The Blackberry Bold will be dropping into Japan’s pockets in early 2009 according to Reuters.  The carrier that will releasing it is Japans biggest carrier NTT DoCoMo.  Donald Morrison, RIM’s chief operating officer, said:

the company sees a big opportunity in the “absolutely huge” Japanese market and necessary technologies to support RIM’s products are already in [...]