The focus, over the last few years, has been not on the paid reviews from magazine — and bloggers — but on those paid reviews that show up as ordinarycustomer reviews on sites like Amazon.
Models like the new touch - screen Bold 9900 are proving popular with corporate users and existing BlackBerry fans, while phones without keyboards like the Torch 9850, aimed at ordinarycustomers, are selling less well, said Canaccord's Walkley.