Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company behind the struggling line of BlackBerry smartphones and devices, is nearing completion of its new operating system, BlackBerry 10, and prearing to launch two new devices in “early 2013” — one with a physical keyboard and one pure touchscreen — according to comments made by CEO Thorstein Heins to The Wall Street Journal. The touchscreen phone resembles the iPhone, according to The Verge.
“We’re near the finishing line,” Heins told The Wall Street Journal.
Eventually, the company plans six new BlackBerry 10 phones, three with physical keyboards and three without. Heins said that RIM had begun previewing the devices to media outlets and major U.S. wireless carriers such as AT&T and Verizon.
