Guest squall Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 Just spotted this press release over at arrivenet.com: HTC and RIM today announced plans to expand distribution of BlackBerry® Connect on Windows Mobile based devices from HTC to carriers around the world. Carriers will soon have access to a wider variety of Windows Mobile-based HTC devices with BlackBerry Connect. In addition to previously announced models from HTC, new initiatives will include the deployment of BlackBerry Connect on HTC's current generation of keyboard-based devices and will quickly expand to a wider deployment of Windows Mobile-based HTC devices. "HTC continuously facilitates and customizes cutting edge technologies and various creative and feasible solutions for carriers. We are excited to broaden our product lines by offering global availability of BlackBerry Connect, providing our operator customers with easy-to-use, push-based connectivity," said Peter Chou, President of HTC. RIM's BlackBerry Connect licensing program brings powerful and proven BlackBerry wireless services to HTC's popular and innovative devices based on the Pocket PC and Smartphone versions of Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform. Mobile customers will benefit from a compelling, high-value wireless solution that keeps them connected to communication and information while on the go. BlackBerry Connect for HTC devices based on the Windows Mobile platform brings a suite of high-value BlackBerry functionality, including secure, push-based e-mail and calendar synchronization. BlackBerry Connect supports both BlackBerry Enterprise Server for corporate users and BlackBerry Internet Service for individuals and smaller businesses. For corporate customers, BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with Microsoft® Exchange and IBM Lotus® Domino and works with existing enterprise systems to enable secure, push-based, wireless access to email and other corporate data. For individuals and smaller businesses, BlackBerry Internet Service allows users to access up to ten corporate and/or personal email accounts (including Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and many popular ISP email accounts) from a single device. This could turn out to be quite a coup for HTC, RIM seemed to be winning the war in the us when it comes to corporate issued devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest squiggs1982 Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 Just spotted this press release over at arrivenet.com: This could turn out to be quite a coup for HTC, RIM seemed to be winning the war in the us when it comes to corporate issued devices. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Excellent, Perhaps now we won't have to hang around waiting for the individual carriers failing to live up to their promises of bundling BBC (read "o2"). Any idea on time frames? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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