Or is RIM on its way to becoming a mostly mid-to-low-end smartphone purveyor, stuck with lower-end customers and lower margins?

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He decided to go into petrochemicals while attending a Pacific Rim business conference in the Indonesian island of Bali in mid-1994.

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Gillis expects RIM to show QNX phones at its DevCon developers conference in mid-October, but only prototypes.

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