Have you ever wondered what the largest BlackBerry store in Southeast Asia looks like? RIM has posted on their YouTube page the grand opening of the Gandaria City, Jakarta, Indonesia BlackBerry Store.
The store grand opening was on the 25th & 26th of February, with the promise potential BlackBerry and PlayBook buyers a better shopping and customer service experience, with well-trained salespeople and a pleasing ambiance.
After-sales services are provided by BlackBerry Expert Center, which are integrated in each store. Customers who just want to experience BlackBerry features, applications and services firsthand, Zona Demo is available. A store with a similar concept had been opened in the same city, located at Kelapa Gading area, last year. These concept stores are only available in two countries: Indonesia and Thailand.
BlackBerry Expert Centers promise instant device exchange under warranty, mobile OS upgrade, original components and spare parts. RIM employs professionally-trained and certified engineers in these facilities. Sixteen Expert Centers are owned and managed by four local wireless carriers, and more than 50 Centers are owned and operated by three distributors in major cities across Indonesia.
Executives of both distributors say that they were very pleased with the store launches in what is considered the biggest clustered mall for mobile devices in Indonesia. As a promotion, the first 400 customers got the chance to win holidays to Bali and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computers.
Source: TechWireAsia