New BlackBerry Connect Model for Windows Mobile Device

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clipped from www.htlounge.net Download RIM’s Software and Make Your Mobile Phone a Hybrid You won’t be able to instantly identify a Blackberry anymore. Research in Motion, makes of the wildly popular multimedia phone, are going to start sharing some of their software with other mobile phone makers, specifically those that make phones that run Windows Mobile 6.0. If you have one of those phones, you can download RIM’s software and turn your phone into a hybrid, able to run on both platforms. (No word yet on whether Palm is going to join the party.) The advantage of this from a user’s point of view is that you get to benefit from both platforms, which run differently according to the function. The new RIM software wouldn’t bridge the gap between the two platforms but rather allow one user to use both on the same handset (but not both at the same time).

8830 extends reach – BlackBerry and Verizon Wireless Deal

clipped from www.bloomberg.com April 25 (Bloomberg) — Research In Motion Ltd. and Verizon Wireless will start selling a BlackBerry device next month that makes it easier for U.S. customers to send e-mail and make phone calls abroad. Verizon Wireless customers who buy the 8830 will be able to send e-mail in more than 60 countries for a flat rate, starting at $64.99 a month. The device will work as a phone in more than 150 countries. Other carriers will start offering the 8830 in the future, Balsillie said. Motorola in February introduced versions of its Q e-mail phone, which competes with the BlackBerry. Nokia the same month unveiled three e-mail phones for business use. The companies are banking on the new products to gain a bigger share of e-mail phone sales, a market that will soar 43 percent this year to almost $6 billion in the U.S. alone, according to Strategy Analytics, a Boston research firm. “This definitely addresses a broad range of business executives,” Balsillie said in an interview.