Now, BlackBerry users can use their phone with Wi-Fi features also. Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is planning to start selling its BlackBerry phone with both cellular and Wi-Fi capabilities.
Other leading companies, Nokia and Motorola, are already selling their mobile phones with Wi-Fi and cellular capability. Recently, RIM has joined hands with converged phones but the company will start shipping Wi-Fi featured BlackBerry from next week.
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), which companies use to deliver corporate e-mail to BlackBerry users already supports roaming for customers, who travel between multiple operators. BES will treat Wi-Fi networks just like additional cellular networks. This capability will enable the handoof of data connections and voice calls between Wi-Fi and cellular networks as users move.
While speaking at the JPMorgan Technology Conference, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, said,
Such a converged BlackBerry should come out ‘in the back half of this year.’ I was not a big believer in it for the first two or three years because it was hyped as something that would subsume everything, that you would get rid of your cell phone. We feel it’s complementary of a cell phone.
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Via: About Electronics
