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  Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins speaks during the BlackBerry Jam 2012 conference.

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Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins speaks during the BlackBerry Jam 2012 conference.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) â?? Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins says the company's BlackBerry phone is poised to regain its stature as a trailblazing device even as many investors fret about its potential demise.

Heins took the stage Tuesday at a conference for mobile applications developers to rally support for the upcoming release of a new operating system for the BlackBerry.

The San Jose, Calif. gathering gave Heins and other top Research in Motion executives the opportunity to show off a few features of the Blackberry 10 system. The redesigned software won't hit the market until a still-unscheduled date early next year.

Delays of the operating system's release have raised concerns that the once-iconic BlackBerry will fall even further behind Apple's iPhone and other hot-selling devices running on Google's Android software.

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