RIM Says BlackBerry ‘Thank You Gift’ Apps Only Available Until December 31

Research In Motion is by far the company most affected by the changes in the smartphone market. The company’s problems culminated with the BlackBerry outage in October, which left most BlackBerry users without RIM’s services for three days.

To compensate its customers for the BlackBerry outage, RIM offered them a free apps package comprising several productivity tools and games.

Today, RIM issued a reminder for all BlackBerry users that the so-called “Thank You Gift” apps package is only available for download until December 31.

The package can be downloaded for free via BlackBerry App World and includes the following applications: Shazam Encore, Vlingo - Virtual Assistant, DriveSafe.ly Pro, Bubble Bash 2, The Sims 3, Nobex Radio Premium, Bejeweled, N.O.V.A., Photo Editor Ultimate, SimCity Deluxe, iSpeech Translator Pro, Texas Hold'em Poker 2 and DriveSafe.ly Enterprise.