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Analysts had a field day on Friday after RIM released its less than stellar Q2 earnings on Thursday. When addressing its future prospects, RIM warned that its gross margins in the Q3 will drop another three percentage points to 47% and that a further decline is likely into 2010. Ouch! In a letter sent to clients, Charles Wolf of Needham & Co had the most scathing assessment of RIM:

In their conference call, management dismissed the notion that new competitors, most notably Apple’s iPhone 3G and new smartphones running on Google’s Android platform, would materially slow the growth in new subscriber activations. We continue to believe that the company has its head in the sand. Yes, the iPhone and Android phones will expand the market as they lure mobile phone users to smartphones. But we believe it’s delusional to think they won’t cut into BlackBerry sales as well, especially in the consumer market.

Did he just call RIM delusional and say they had their head in the sand? Yes, indeed he did. The not-so-rosy forecast for RIM had an effect as its stock fell 28% by days end. Yikes, looks like RIM is suffering the consequences of venturing out of their comfortable enterprise market and entering the highly competitive consumer market. Congratulations, RIM, you just got your first royal smackdown!

For some BlackBerry owners, typing speed is a point of pride. How fast can you tap out a message? Even if it’s not a matter of ego, it just pays to get messages out faster, especially if you know what you want to say. What follows are three quick tips for better messaging.

Don’t use a period

If you want to end a sentence, it is grammatically correct to use a period. It actually bugs the crap out of me when people decide not to use the most common form of punctuation. Yeah, it’s a pain to hit alt+m, but hey, you’ve got to parse your words somehow. Or you could do it another way. Hit space bar twice after a sentence. It’ll put the period in for you AND capitalize the first letter of the next word.

Skip the shift key

If you need to capitalize a letter that is not the first word of the sentence, the normal protocol is to hit the shift key, followed by the letter. Nay. All you have to do is hold down the letter for a split second. You’ll see the letter jump from lower case to upper case.

Forget the @ in an email address

Just use a space. The BlackBerry will know what you mean. You can even skip the period before the com, org, net, whatever. Just use a space, too. So to reach me, it would be jpawlikowski bbgeeks com.

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