RIM's Blackberry Fights for Relevance

From PC World: Research in Motion rattled off a slew of product updates at its Blackberry World conference Monday, including new Bold smartphones, the Blackberry 7 OS, and a couple of key apps for the Blackberry Playbook tablet.

These aren't game-changing announcements. I don't see anything among RIM's press releases that will catapult Blackberry over the iPhone and Android in the smartphone and tablet wars, but they should help RIM hang on to some relevance as it ceases to dominate the smartphone market.

Here's what's new with RIM's Blackberry products:

RIM's Blackberry 7 OS doesn't merge with QNX, the operating system that runs on the Blackberry tablet. Instead, Blackberry 7 OS adds some basic improvements like voice-activated search and a faster, smoother Web browser with HTML 5 support.

Engadget reports that only new phones will get Blackberry 7 OS, leaving the relatively new Blackberry Torch out in the cold.

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