PalmSource and RIM Introduce BlackBerry Connect for Palm OS
PalmSource and Research In Motion (RIM) have completed their distribution agreement to make BlackBerry Connect available to Palm OS licensees. Together, BlackBerry Connect and Palm OS will extend email and corporate data connectivity to Palm Powered smart mobile devices, facilitating workforce productivity while away from the office.
PalmSource President and CEO David Nagel will demonstrate the BlackBerry Connect offering for Palm OS during his keynote presentation at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Chicago on Tuesday, May 18 at 9:00 am CDT.
The BlackBerry Connect offering for Palm OS is the result of a joint development effort between PalmSource and RIM, announced in December 2003, to provide Palm OS licensees with access to the industry-leading, push-based, BlackBerry wireless infrastructure and to enable seamless connectivity between Palm Powered smart mobile devices and BlackBerry wireless services (including BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Web Client), as well as global address list look-up and IT policy support. PalmSource is expected to make the Palm OS Mail Client that supports BlackBerry Connect available to Palm OS licensees in the second half of 2004, as previously announced.
"BlackBerry Connect on Palm Powered smart mobile devices will broaden the reach of our wireless platform into new markets and strengthen our presence in the Palm OS community," said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion. "BlackBerry Connect on Palm Powered smart mobile devices will enable users to stay connected with email and other data applications and allow IT departments and mobile operators to leverage their existing investments in the BlackBerry wireless platform."
"BlackBerry Connect broadens the choice of wireless messaging solutions for our Palm OS licensees to create mobile products that better meet the demands of today's mobile professionals," said David Nagel, president and CEO of PalmSource. "We believe BlackBerry Connect and Palm OS fulfills enterprise customer demand for a push-based, end-to-end secure access to corporate data and email, while maintaining flexibility, uncompromised power and ease of use, and software compatibility that are the hallmarks of Palm OS."
"Wireless data connectivity is fundamental to the continuing growth of mobile devices and services and a strong contributor to increased ROI in the enterprise;" said Kevin Burden, program manager of IDC's Mobile Devices research service. "Combined with the thousands of Palm OS applications, BlackBerry Connect on Palm OS will strengthen the presence of Palm Powered mobile devices in the enterprise and further solidify the Palm OS platform's value to this market."
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry is the industry-leading wireless platform that keeps mobile professionals connected to their important information and communications while on the go. It is an award-winning solution that can provide users with integrated wireless access to a range of business applications, including email, phone, corporate data, web, SMS and organizer applications. For larger enterprises with an IT department, BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with Microsoft Exchange or IBM Lotus Domino and works with existing enterprise systems to enable secure, push-based, wireless access to existing email and other corporate data. For individuals, BlackBerry Web Client provides an Internet-based email interface that allows users to access multiple corporate and/or personal email accounts without the need for server software (including Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and popular ISP email accounts) from a single BlackBerry handheld.
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RE: Great news for Treo users...
RE: Great news for Treo users...
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I expect we'll see these on PalmOne devices by years end
Now that these lawsuits are settled (as of March 24 2004), the impedement that Brawley (PalmOne's CEO) discusses is gone.
Why wait for this, start using MailWave today
Yay!
Any talk about when devices will be made available? Or is it going to be a sofwtare solution for existing PalmOS smart phones?
RE: Yay!
Palm m505 User
Please tell me what this really means
RE: Please tell me what this really means
RE: Please tell me what this really means
For an explanation of the BlackBerry architecture, see the articles I wrote which can be accessed from http://www.ericgiguere.com/blackberry
Eric
RE: Please tell me what this really means
RE: Please tell me what this really means
In practice, this means that on a subway ride, I can read emails waiting for me on my device, and reply to emails, all in the absence of signal. The second I get out of the subway station, any new email is pushed in, and any composed messages are sent. In the presence of a signal, the second an email arrives, the device notifies me.
It is a very unique experience, and very addictive because emails are sent/received instantenously, all the time, much like instant messaging. If you get a lot of email, idle time (like waiting for someone, or taking a subway ride or a cab ride), is productive time. It is a masterpiece of instant communication.
I carry a Blackberry and a Tungsten T3 with me always. IMHO, the Blackberry makes a terrible PDA, but is indisposable because of how well it handles emails. Done correctly, converging RIM's push email technology and Palm's PDA technology into one device will be a near perfect device.
RE: Please tell me what this really means
So, if Palm supports something like this, what would be the Palm equivalent of the always-connected attribute of the Blackberry? Would it require hardware such as a Treo that has an always-connected wireless technology? The other wireless technologies (Bluetooth, WiFi) are typically much more intermittent than GPRS.
RE: Please tell me what this really means
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http://palmos.combee.net - PDA programmer weblog
RE: Please tell me what this really means
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Ben Combee
http://palmos.combee.net - PDA programmer weblog
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