About 15 days left until the launch event. I'm cautiously optimistic that the new phones they will release will actually compete with the current crop of iPhones and Android phones--at least the specs on paper say that. Mrs. Swede's 9780 is so horribly slow that I bought her an Optimus L9 Android phone as a stopgap until T-Mobile releases more information about the new BB10 as well as iPhone.

Unfortunately, the huge question mark will be whether they can get enough major players to create apps for their OS.