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Blackberry Case
What is the context?
• RIM launched its first BlackBerry in 1999
• A success in the « boardroom segment » especially thanks to the e-mail application
• Its first competitot became first Palm and then the
Motorola Q and severals Nokia models

1

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How is the market in 2005?
• More than 800 millions of mobile phones in the world
• Among these 4,7% of smartphones • So there is a huge potential from the « normal »mobile phones The smartphones market shares in 2005
Nokia
RIM
RIM
7%

Motorola
Palm
Sony ericsson

2

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Our goal with the Pearl
• Keeping a top position in the boardroom segment
• Expanding our customer base
• How? What are the new characteristics?
- A 1.3-megapixel camera
-A music and video player
- A new look
• At stake is the multimedia departement

3

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Perceptual map with two factors 2
Sony Ericsson
M
1,5 600i

1
Motorola Q
0,5

0
-2

-1,5

-1

-0,5

0
-0,5

Sidekick3

Nokia 9300
-1

0,5

Palm Treo 700p
1

1,5

S1
Overall
S3
S2
RIM BlackBerry
Pearl

With this perceptual map, the Pearl seems to be able to meet the needs of all the
Segments and not only the segment 1 which could be the boardroom segment.
4

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What are the influent factors?
If we choose 0,65 as a threshold, here are in green the most correlated characteristics
Push email availability
Email folders synchronization
Instant messaging availability
Speed in accessing email
Software selection
Display size
Ease of use for navigation
Ease of use for typing
Voice/call quality
Comfortable to call
User friendliness
Media quality
Camera quality
Compact
Quality of display
Finish
Product image
Brand image
High prestige
Value for money

• The problem for the factor 1 is that there is no negative correlation. • Yet we decided to call the first one « corporate » and the second one « media »

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