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Isaac Pino.

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Yeah. We're going to talk smartphones because that is very much in the news. We're going to talk retail.

And we're going to dip into the full mail bag but let's start with the world of

smartphones shares of blackberry up 5% this morning after the company said it has

formed a special committee to evaluate quote strategic options that could include the sale of the

company. Chris that better be one hell of a special committee. Yeah I mean

coming up with a sale I'm tempted to ask what took you so long but I'll go to what is probably the more relevant

question which is who is buying Blackberry we've kicked this around for a long time. What is the fate of this company? It really seemed like we are finally at the point that maybe we should have been six months ago, 12 months something like that but if you look at

Blackberry if you're a big tech company I know that Google is probably not looking

at them since they're still working through all of the Motorola stuff from that acquisition

but I don't know Isaac I'll start with you who's kicking the tires of BlackBerry.

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