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BlackBerry maker RIM Friday said the company prepared to release new mobile phone users in China before, the company has with China’s mobile application developers are working on.

RIM Business senior vice president of marketing and alliances Jeff McDowell, said, “Although many applications have already crossed the border restrictions, but to create a localized application of the community is still very important.” Apple’s iPhone for the same mobile and application store App Store to compete, and attract more consumers to resist the decline in traditional business users, RIM opened a year ago, the application stores.

Since last October the BlackBerry App World shop on-line application since the application stores the number of applications has reached 6,000 models. Currently, RIM is trying to Bold and the Tour and other BlackBerry models, and applications with their supporting push China, India and Indonesia and other markets.

China Telecom in March 22 had said in May this year the company will start selling a BlackBerry. So far, RIM has yet to determine the specific time to market. Mike McDowell said in an interview, “Whatever we sell in China, how the arrangements, from the developer community is concerned, we are working with the Chinese application developers to cooperate.”

Market research firm IDC’s senior analyst Ramon Llamas expected China’s smart phone shipments will reach this year’s increase of 26% to 22 million. Apple CEO steve ballmer on April 8 this year, has said Apple’s App Store App Store the number of applications has reached the 185,000 article, the user downloads the application of more than 40 million times.

RIM BlackBerry last quarter shipments of 10.5 million. Up to now, the company has not disclosed the BlackBerry App World application store downloads. The company’s shares Friday closed at 72.03 U.S. dollars, down 1.55 U.S. dollars higher than the previous day, down 2.1%. This year, RIM’s share price rose 6.7% total.