Research in Motion has hit back at reports that it lied about the reason for the delay in bringing the next generation of BlackBerry phones to the market.
Boy Genius Report posted a story on Thursday claiming that phones running the new BB10 operation system had been pushed back because RIM did "not have a working product."
This contradicted the Canadians' assertion that BB10 handsets would not arrive until later in 2012 because it was waiting for new LTE chipsets to be manufactured.
The company has taken the somewhat unusual step of issuing a statement to counter the claims from BGR's inside source, which the site identified as a "high-level employee".
Inaccurate
RIM has reiterated its own stance, while painting BGR's report as "inaccurate and uninformed."
RIM's full statement reads: "RIM made a strategic decision to launch BlackBerry 10 devices with a new, LTE-based dual-core chipset architecture. As explained on our earnings call, the broad engineering impact of this decision and certain other factors significantly influenced the anticipated timing for the BlackBerry 10 devices.
"The anonymous claim suggesting otherwise is inaccurate and uninformed. As RIM has previously explained, and as Mike Lazaridis reiterated on the earnings call, we will not launch BlackBerry 10 devices until we know they are ready and we believe this new chipset architecture is required to deliver the world-class user experience that our customers will expect. Any suggestion to the contrary is simply false.
"We appreciate the interest in our future platform and we will continue to work hard to deliver that platform as soon as possible. At the same time, we also remain very excited with the success of our recently launched BlackBerry 7 smartphones and we believe these products offer a very compelling choice for both new customers and the almost 75 million BlackBerry users around the world."
Kicking RIM when its down
RIM has been under unprecedented scrutiny in recent months as profits wane, stocks fall and market share dwindles.
The commercial disaster that was the BlackBerry PlayBook and the infamous internet services outage in October have contributed to a terrible 2011 for the company.
BB10 is thought to offer a little hope for RIM, which is why it may have been so keen to respond to BGR's hatchet job with such a strongly-worded statement.
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