RIM CEO Thorsten Heins at a BlackBerry event last year.
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Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)
Those of you who want to catch RIM's BlackBerry 10 action tomorrow can tune into a live webcast.
Scheduled to kick off at 10 a.m. ET tomorrow, the event will run simultaneously in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Dubai, Johannesburg, Jakarta, and Delhi. People who can't make the trip to any of those cities can watch online through RIM's Newsroom page.
The event will see RIM take the wraps off its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and its first two BB10 smartphones. Details on the phones, including their availability, will be revealed at the event.
The two phones have been dubbed the Z10 and the X10, according to rumors. The Z10 would be a touchscreen model, while the X10 would sport the traditional physical keyboard. The Z10 is expected to debut first, reaching consumers sometime in February.
Research in Motion has high hopes riding on its new operating system and phones. The company has been hit hard by competition from the iPhone and
Android devices and needs a jolt to grab customers and win back some of its lost market share.
But analysts have been skeptical as to whether RIM will score enough points with BB10.
"RIM continues to face the twin demons of consumer-driven buying power and a chronic inability to appeal to mature market consumers," Ovum analyst Jan Dawson said in a blog last month. "There is nothing in what we've seen so far of BB10 that suggests it will conquer the second of these demons, and the first is utterly out of RIM's control."
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