So when a phone clerk said the "World Edition" BlackBerry could keep him connected--even in Japan, a notorious dead zone for Western phones and personal digital assistants--Kozarsky was sold.
Blackberry is still a very respected brand across the developing world - but it is undeniable that it has lost its cachet in the US and Europe.
If you look in the developing countries around the world you will notice that blackberry is a very popular smartphone and far more common that iPhone and Sam Galaxy or whatever because it is cheap and affordable.
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There are currently 78 million BlackBerry subscribers world-wide, and RIM says that a large majority of Fortune 500 companies issue BlackBerrys to employees.
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One company watcher said it was important for Blackberry to have a device running BB10 on sale in parts of the world where its handsets were still bestsellers.
Specifically, the phone maker will begin scanning all current and future BlackBerry World apps with the Trend Micro Mobile Application Reputation Service, a cloud-based solution that'll exist alongside BlackBerry's current security measures.
There's a rear-facing camera at the top, which likely won't get much use seeing as how it appears to be painted over -- though it may offer a cool filtered effect as the rest of the world waits for BlackBerry to jump on the Instagram bandwagon.
"Clearly we have a backlog in Europe... as you can imagine, with the global reach of Blackberry and people using it to contact others around the world, there's a lot of messages to Europe from Asia and the Americas, " RIM software vice president David Yach told a press conference in Ottawa, Canada.
In addition to FIPS certifications, BlackBerry products have continuously passed rigorous security assessments from a variety of other independent organizations around the world.
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Not only would I have had to pause or put the kibosh my 30-day trial run with the BlackBerry Z10, but I'm also on the other side of the world in a foreign country.
As the world awaits the arrival of BlackBerry 10 hardware, the Wall Street Journal has a report from RIM CEO Thorsten Heins that the company is ready to start showing off the "nearly complete" devices to carriers next week.
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Next week, the landscape could change again with the launch of Blackberry 10, and then in February the Mobile World Congress will see Chinese firms like Huawei pushing for a pace at the smartphone table.
And it's exciting to see the leaders of some of the most innovative, cutting-edge, tech-savvy companies in the world gathered in the city where I had to fight tooth and nail just to get a BlackBerry. (Laughter.) There may be a little bit of a cultural clash here, but that's exactly why we want you here.
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