BlackBerry users offered $100 of free apps
Research In Motion (RIM) will be offering its subscribers a selection of premium applications worth more than $100 to thank them for their patience during last week’s service disruptions.The apps will be made available to customers over the coming weeks on BlackBerry® App World™ up until the end of this year.“Our global network supports the communications needs of more than 70 million customers,” said RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. “We truly appreciate and value our relationship with our customers. We’ve worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years, and we’re committed to providing the high standard of reliability they expect, today and in the future.”The complete selection of premium apps will be available to download at BlackBerry App World over four weeks starting from tomorrow.They will include:l SIMS 3 Electronic Artsl Bejeweled Electronic Artsl N.O.V.A. Gameloftl Texas Hold’em Poker 2 Gameloftl Bubble Bash 2 Gameloftl Photo Editor Ultimate Ice Cold Appsl DriveSafe.ly Pro iSpeech.orgl iSpeech Translator Pro iSpeech.orgl Drive Safe.ly Enterprise iSpeech.orgl Nobex Radio™ Premium Nobexl Shazam Encore Shazaml Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant VlingoRIM’s enterprise customers will also be offered one month of free technical support. Current customers will be offered a complimentary one month extension to their existing technical support contract, and customers who do not currently have a contract will be offered a one month trial of RIM’s BlackBerry technical support services enhanced support, free of charge.“We are grateful to our loyal BlackBerry customers for their patience,” said Mr Lazaridis. “We have apologised to our customers and we will work tirelessly to restore their confidence. We are taking immediate and aggressive steps to help prevent something like this from happening again.”For more information visit www.blackberry.com/enterpriseoffer