RIM says next Blackberrys are on their way

CANADIAN PHONE MAKER Research in Motion (RIM) has announced that Blackberry devices running its Blackberry 7 operating system (OS) are coming.

Using the micro-blogging site Twitter, RIM has confirmed that Blackberry smartphones running the latest version of it OS will be tipping up. The firm tweeted yesterday, "Pop quiz #teamblackberry: What's shiny and new and social all over? ^CH"

Today's answer read, "You got it! New #BlackBerry devices are coming w/ our new OS, BlackBerry 7! Check back tmrw 4 deets on #BB7FanNight. ^CH"

Unfortunately there is no confirmation of any handset models so we'll have to check back to find out. At least we know it will be more than one model though, and it's likely that the line-up will include the Bold 9900 and 9930.

RIM announced these two handsets in May and said they would be available at the beginning of the Summer worldwide.The Bold 9900 is currently sitting on Three's coming soon page with no date. Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of RIM said the upcoming Bold smartphone will "jump a generation" with its technology.

Jim Balsillie, the other co-CEO of RIM, said there are seven devices coming in the next few months with the new OS. He made this announcement at the company's annual shareholders meeting where a delay to the firm's Blackberry 7 OS was confirmed.

At the meeting the company mentioned its 'biggest launch' which might refer to the number of devices it's going to reveal. Among the line-up we could see a successor to the Torch, which has been around for a fair while.

At the beginning of this week the firm announced job cuts of around 2,000 employees in a "cost optimization program". µ