Hello Berry Users! As we start a great new year, why don’t we take a quick look back at the momentous events that BlackBerry has passed by its journey to 2012? As much as we are all excited for what more RIM has to offer, 2011 is by no means futile for the iconic smartphone brand.

Join me as we breeze through some of the company’s big releases in the past 12 months:

January: BlackBerry introduced the BlackBerry Bold 9780 (a slight upgrade from it 9700 model) running on the BB OS 6. It has an upgraded 5MP camera, a 624MHz processor, and a webkit browser

February: RIM released the BlackBerry Travel App, which integrates the user’s travel plans, itineraries and flight status updates. It includes additional tools on hotel bookings, currency conversion and even local searches and weather forecasts.

In addition to that, BlackBerry App World became available in over 100 markets, with over 20,000 apps available for download at the time

March: For BlackBerry Playbook users, RIM announced the Android application player, which will allow Playbook users to run applications (like games) that were specifically created for the Android platform

April: The Canadian-based company released the much awaited 7-inch BlackBerry Playbook in the United States, which features a dual-core processor and Adobe Flash support, running on its QNX-based operating system

May: RIM officially announced the new BlackBerry Bold series, featuring the new Bold Touch 9900 running on the new BlackBerry OS 7 OS.

June: Following Playbook’s unimpressive impact on the market, RIM announced that the upcoming OS 7 device, were to be delayed until later in the year.

July: RIM’s bread and butter–BBMessenger– got an overhaul with the new BBM 6, which features an even greater social integration. This includes BBM getting connected with dozens of apps that will allow BBM friends to interact with each other within the application itself. It also includes bigger file sharing for videos and music.

August: BlackBerry Playbook finally became available in the Philippines.

September: RIM has now released the new BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 running on the new OS7, which features the Liquid Graphics technology, and a faster processor.

October: Following the server outage at RIM, the company offered premium apps to the customers

At this time, RIM also introduced the BBX operating system to power its next-generation smartphones and tablets

November: Research In Motion released more OS 7 smartphones, including the Bold (Touch) 9790 (which is almost the same look and size as the Bold 9780 OS 6 device) and the Curve 9380

December: On top of announcing that the next-gen BlackBerry smartphones won’t be released until the latter part of 2012, RIM also conceded to a recent lawsuit against the use of BBX as the name of the upcoming operating system by changing the brand to BlackBerry OS 10.

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