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Palm, RIM Bring Blackberry to Treo
Techtree News Staff, Oct 17, 2005 1500 hrs ISTPalm and RIM today announced that they are working together to bring BlackBerry Connect to the Palm Treo650 smartphone.
Palm and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that they are working together to bring BlackBerry Connect to the Palm Treo650 smartphone.
The companies expect the solution to be available internationally starting early 2006.
Through RIM's BlackBerry Connect licensing program, Palm will enable its Treo 650 and future Palm OS based Treo smartphones with secure, push-based wireless email via BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
The solution will enable push-based email using BlackBerry Connect with Palm's VersaMail email client; support for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino; wireless calendar synchronization; remote address lookup of corporate email directory; convenient email-attachment viewing; Triple DES encryption and IT policy enforcement and commands (such as remotely disabling or wiping email and PIM data from a device in the event it is lost).
With carrier activation, the Treo 650 combines a compact, full-featured mobile phone with email, an organizer, messaging and web access, allowing users to organize and simplify their business and personal lives in one place.
The Treo 650 offers integrated Bluetooth wireless technology, a high-resolution screen, multimedia capabilities, a removable battery, non-volatile memory and a backlit QWERTY keyboard.
"Treo 650 has earned accolades as the best fully featured smartphone available, and we're thrilled to make it even better by answering customer requests and offering RIM's BlackBerry email solution for businesses," said Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer, Palm.
"Our news today demonstrates Palm's promise to offer flexible mobile-computing solutions with world-class, enterprise-strength partners, delivering what we're convinced is the best email experience to the broadest set of customers on Treo smartphones", said Colligan.
"The BlackBerry architecture and infrastructure are recognized around the world as secure, manageable, reliable and scalable, and we are extremely pleased to broaden the choice of BlackBerry-enabled handsets with the Treo 650," said Jim Balsillie, chairman and co-CEO at RIM.
"We have already seen significant customer interest in this powerful combination, and we look forward to building on our relationship with Palm", added Balsillie.
BlackBerry Connect will be available for new and existing Treo 650 users through select carriers. Pricing and distribution details will be provided at a later date.
The companies expect the solution to be available internationally starting early 2006.
Through RIM's BlackBerry Connect licensing program, Palm will enable its Treo 650 and future Palm OS based Treo smartphones with secure, push-based wireless email via BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
The solution will enable push-based email using BlackBerry Connect with Palm's VersaMail email client; support for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino; wireless calendar synchronization; remote address lookup of corporate email directory; convenient email-attachment viewing; Triple DES encryption and IT policy enforcement and commands (such as remotely disabling or wiping email and PIM data from a device in the event it is lost).
With carrier activation, the Treo 650 combines a compact, full-featured mobile phone with email, an organizer, messaging and web access, allowing users to organize and simplify their business and personal lives in one place.
The Treo 650 offers integrated Bluetooth wireless technology, a high-resolution screen, multimedia capabilities, a removable battery, non-volatile memory and a backlit QWERTY keyboard.
"Treo 650 has earned accolades as the best fully featured smartphone available, and we're thrilled to make it even better by answering customer requests and offering RIM's BlackBerry email solution for businesses," said Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer, Palm.
"Our news today demonstrates Palm's promise to offer flexible mobile-computing solutions with world-class, enterprise-strength partners, delivering what we're convinced is the best email experience to the broadest set of customers on Treo smartphones", said Colligan.
"The BlackBerry architecture and infrastructure are recognized around the world as secure, manageable, reliable and scalable, and we are extremely pleased to broaden the choice of BlackBerry-enabled handsets with the Treo 650," said Jim Balsillie, chairman and co-CEO at RIM.
"We have already seen significant customer interest in this powerful combination, and we look forward to building on our relationship with Palm", added Balsillie.
BlackBerry Connect will be available for new and existing Treo 650 users through select carriers. Pricing and distribution details will be provided at a later date.
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