RIM welcomes TAT!

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[...] its team called The Astonishing Tribe or TAT. The TAT team has been confirmed as joining RIM on the Inside BlackBerry blog at RIM. RIM says that the TAT expertise in UI design will be added to the Blackberry Playbook and [...]

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[...] in Motion announced this morning that they have acquired mobile UI (user interface) company TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) who will [...]

This is very good news. However, we (your consumers), are wondering how long will it take for TAT’s designs to actually impact us with our phones? Look how long it has taken QNX’s acquisition to impact the Playbook, and the Playbook isn’t even out yet. RIM, we are loyal consumers to your products, but the competition is fierce and looking better everyday. We want a better UI experience with our phones and we don’t want it to take years because if it does, we will be gone. OS6 is a good start, but only available on one phone, which is locked to AT&T.

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[...] all the work goes to Waterloo? If you see RIM people smiling today, you'll know why. [RIM, TAT via [...]

I’m curious, has TAT worked on anything for RIM before? Is the PlayBook UI there design?

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[...] plans pointing to an awesome user interface for their upcoming QNX OS. They just announced on their Blog that The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) team will be joining RIM and focus their talent on BlackBerry [...]

[...] the work goes to Waterloo? If you see RIM people smiling today, you’ll know why. [RIM, TAT via [...]

With that logo I’m surprised Jamiroquai didn’t sue for copyright infringement:)

Wait, but it’s an agreement for co-working or did you buy TAT?

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[...] the hot tablet market, and the company showed it’s prepared to compete by announcing today it has bought Swedish design firm, The Astonishing Tribe. TAT is a well-known UI team respected for its take on mobile screens. TAT said its concepts and [...]

[...] the hot tablet market, and the company showed it’s prepared to compete by announcing today it has bought Swedish design firm, The Astonishing Tribe. TAT is a well-known UI team respected for its take on mobile screens. TAT said its concepts and [...]

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[...] TweetShareEmailResearch in Motion announced today that it acquired The Astonishing Tribe, or what some call the SWAT team of user interface design. BlackBerry’s UI is the butt of many jokes in mobile phone discussions. RIM might have some of the best devices for heavy communicators, but the UI is one major reason that many RIM-wielding business professionals carry an iPhone or Android device for entertainment and web browsing. [...]

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I used to love Blackberries and then the format of their phones just got old. The screen size and the UI are both outdated. I would like to see a 4 inch screen with a new UI and touch interface. That would be a main reason to return to a Blackberry phone.

[...] otherwise unappealing mobile interfaces, Research in Motion is bringing in some new design talent. The company has acquired The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), the Swedish design house behind the original Android interface as well [...]

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[...] this morning RIM posted on their blog about their latest acquisition of TAT (The Astonishing Tribe), which specialize is mobile user [...]

Please keep in mind that I had never heard of either of these companies before today, but after looking at both logos I am not sure what you are talking about. They do not even kind of look alike. In fact, the only feature they share is the fact that both have horns, albeit totally different styles of horns.

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Match made in heaven. Best functionality with great UI design will produce very competitive products. My Bold 9700 and I can’t wait to see how this pans out.

Congrats to TAT for the RIM job! Hope you will enjoy it.

I agree with Liquix, in particular I am SO tired of my Curve 8330 with Verizon, but there is NOTHING worth signing up a two-year contract for with BB products. I want to stay with BB, but who has the best BB? AT&T. I will not jump ship from Vz to ATT. That leaves me with a breaking-down phone waiting for a best level BB at Vz or changing to some version of Droid.

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Wow, this is like way cool.

[...] a brief post on the company’s official blog, RIM CTO David Yach said he was “excited that the TAT team will be joining RIM and bringing [...]

[...] Yach, chief technology officer at RIM, boasted of The Astonishing Tribe’s design prowess in the blog post, saying the smaller company would help with the design and development of RIM’s [...]

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[...] a brief post on the company’s official blog, RIM CTO David Yach said he was “excited that the TAT team will be joining RIM and bringing [...]

[...] tat, the astonishing tribe, ui.Comments: View Comments tweetmeme_style='compact'; View CommentsAccording to the CTO at RIM, David Yach, RIM has acquired the Swedish UI and design firm The Astonishing Tribe (TAT). The acquisition has [...]

[...] in Motion announced this morning that it acquired Swedish interface design firm TAT, whose initials stand for The Astonishing Tribe. That could make future BlackBerry phones – [...]

You hit the nail on the head. How dedicated a customer must I be to wait around for their impact to be felt – and shell out another few hundred for it too!

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Now that the main driving fores and creative types at TAT have sold the company will they continue to be motivated to make good UIs? I hope they are properly incentivized!

i think you guys would have been better off contracting from them. .. the main talent wont feel motivated now that they already cashed out.

This is brilliant! There is no need to rush into implementation take all the time you need, afterall we get a new iPhone every year and everytime it’s a hit!

Make this one count.

Plan your moves wisely so that you can get back in the game, but I like where this is going (included previous managerial decisions)!

It doesn’t really matter, it’s mostly a common language….what really counts at this point is the design not so much the implementation.

Woah, swedish love is awesome! TAT group super creative!

Welcome TAT to our team

[...] appear to have a lot of fun doing neat things.  So, you can imagine my concern when I saw the headline. [...]

[...] TAT also announced  the joining of forces in their Blog as well. TAT stands for The Astonishing Tribe, and they’re renown for their innovative mobile user interface. The name of their UI framework is TAT Cascades and it is is in millions of devices. More like 470+ million devices worldwide, and more than 200 different models of devices. Cascades accelerates 2D and 3D graphics rendering. With the acquisition of QNX and now the addition of TAT, there’s a lot to look forward to. You can read the announcement on the Inside BlackBerry Blog here [...]

For anyone that questions whether there is a BB worth upgrading to: I suggest you try to demo the torch. i was skeptical at first, but I love the new os6 interface and it’s been fantastic for me

Very cool. Glad to see RIM is more active than before!

hey Ricardo,

RIM bought TAT. (Sounds weird lol)

David get in the Location Space faster my friend. Look at Novitaz – they may have nailed “persistent check-in”. I know the company because of a presentation they made in NYC last week at a conference.

check out the Torch. It’s awesome.

QNX was acquired sometime last April I believe? Remember that RIM wouldn’t, couldn’t just slap a QNX OS onto a device in a day. There is probably quite a bit of verification work involved. Not to mention RIM is know for their security so I’m sure a lot of time went in to making sure this new OS isn’t going to ruin that rep. Having a playbook simulator running QNX tablet OS for the public to use is already in my opinion an extremely fast turn around for only acquiring the company under a year ago. I can only assume a UI wouldn’t take longer than QNX to be implemented but who knows what tasks TAT will be doing at RIM.

If the deal is closed, why isn’t it on your financial news page?

maybe Torch it is not bad. however, comparing with Iphone 4, it is day and night.

RIM has made some major changes over the past year, acquiring several companies to help them hone in on specific parts of the mobile experience. They acquired Torch Mobile to help develop a better web experience; Viigo, a heavily supported RSS feed application; DataViz for document editing software; Cellmania for app store software; and QNX for their real-time operating system. For a company that has been on a steep incline, they are making some big purchases and they’ve appeared sporadic until now

RIM acquiring TAT stitched together all of the seemingly random purchases and acquisitions and formed a few hypotheses into concrete evidence that RIM is done playing around. All that is left is getting the QNX software ported to their handsets, releasing some fresh hardware designs, and getting TAT to do what they do best to the BlackBerry interface

May You live in Exciting times

What does THIS post have to do with TAT, Isabelle? BTW: BBM, Browser, Email, and with UMA the Phone apps in RIM’s BlackBerry can and do support WiFi – so unsure what you’re talking about?!

And THAT my friend is the point – its not to mimic the iPhone 4 in any way but be unto itself.

Guys, guys… It shouldn’t be to long till this gets out, RIM spent more money on R&D last year than any other company… Plus how long have they have been working with QNX before the bought them out, and can you not tell me that they probably having been working with Tat a while before the deal went through. RIM is it in 2011, Just you wait and see!

Good news for RIM; the family is growing!

[...] il proprio talento all’interno del PlayBook e di altre piattaforme smartphone”, scrive Yach in un post dove annuncia l’acquisizione. Non vi è cenno sul futuro delle attività, [...]

Great Move from RIM

Great Move from RIM

[...] not letting on; in fact, it was an excellent week for Blackberry. First, came the news that they had acquired TAT (The Astonishing Tribe). TAT is renowned for producing great UI designs as well as delivering great [...]

Your post is right on the money 2011 should be exciting indeed Boy i cant wait to see all the magic the RIM brew concocts

If they bought them, why isn’t there anything in their SEC filings or last quarterly report?

Does that mean I should wait for the nest version of Torch before I made the switch from my Bold

Good for you guys, as many have said, make it count, innovate your way to a remarkable future…

[...] An Touchscreens, 3-D-Brillen im Kino und daheim haben wir uns mittlerweile gewöhnt. Wie wäre es aber, wenn wir unser Smartphone Display wie ein Rollo herausziehen und erheblich vergrößern könnten? Oder uns der Badzimmerspiegel mit Informationen und Angeboten (Shopping beim Zähneputzen) versorgt? Die auf User Interfaces spezialisierte Firma TAT hat diese Ideen einmal visuell aufbereitet. Übrigens: RIM (ja, das hat mit BlackBerry zu tun hat TAT übernommen. [...]

[...] Depuis Octobre 2010, Microsoft a annoncé exactement zéro acquisitions, rejoignant ainsi des entreprises qui ont un peu du mal comme MySpace ou Nokia. (Twitter a racheté Fluther et AOL a rachté About.me juste avant la fin de l’année dernière, alors que Research In Motion a récemment acquis The Astonishing Tribe). [...]

Really great move from RIM

Yeah. Was just curious if they had already had any influence on BB/PlayBook that we see today.

[...] this week, we showed you some BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet applications being demoed by The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) at Mobile World Congress 2011. Both the ‘Scrapbook’ app demo and BlackBerry® [...]

[...] Mike Kirkup, was able to give me a brief look at a BlackBerry PlayBook application developed by The Astonishing Tribe that demonstrates the power and flexibility of BlackBerry WebWorks [...]

[...] was fortunate to have the opportunity to catch up with recent acquisition The Astonishing Tribe this week at Mobile World Congress 2011. In the short amount of time since joining RIM, they’ve [...]

[...] today all the way from Malmö, Sweden! Check out the sweet blogging styles of Dan and Minna, from The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) – now part of the Research In Motion® TAT team in [...]