With over 150,000 servers in more than 135 countries around the world, RIM doesn’t plan to sit down and drink pinnacoladas with a straw and little-umbrella on top of the glass, at all. Even though that’s probably is what RIM’s co-CEO: James Balsillie wishes to do, but right now it’s no time to enjoy a leisure nap on the warm sands in Hawaii. The reason is standing tall in front of BlackBerry as the new contender; its iPhone. The current iPhone in your hands doesn’t bother James mind at all, but what Apple is about to release in June this year; is what make RIM so agitated these days.It’s undoubted by many users & analysts as well, as sure as the sun which rise bright fully on the East; that iPhone 2.0 will shine as the new favorable handset by business & corporate users. Previously mentioned new features & supports in iPhone firmware 2.0 update, are only a glimpse of what to expect from fruits of Steve Jobs’ passion to penetrate business market that iPhone was not meant for at its first release.
So RIM didn’t waste time no more, on last Friday at a joint press conference in New York city, the BlackBerry maker was joined with SAP to made an important announcement. It is to make SAP’s CRM applications to be accessible with any BlackBerry devices in the market, this means every CRM infos can be pushed just like what the pioneer mobile push-email (RIM) has done from the start. According to Marguerite Reardon (Newsblog), the software will be available in the next few weeks. And in the future, they have agreed to integrate all of SAP’s enterprise softwares into BlackBerry too.
Will we see these apps as built-in native apps in the new BlackBerry 9000 series? Unfortunately the leaked infos from BGR haven’t mentioned any of it, aside from the more detail specs list below:- Radio - GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA
- Bands - Quad-band GPRS/EDGE: 800/850/1800/1900MHz
- HSDPA: 850/1900/2100MHz
- Expandable memory - microSD
- Display - HVGA Color LCD (480×320)
- TrackBall Navigation
- Camera - 2MP
- Wi-Fi - a,b,g
A-GPS - Battery - 1500mAh
- High quality material, high-end finish
- Software - 4.6
- New user interface (UI) ~watch the video clip below~
The partnership with SAP will strengthened RIM’s foothold on corporate market segment, but could it be RIM is planning to expand their wings into more younger & hyped audience? (which are the same categories of iPhone’s main consumers) The rumor was started by
Then BGR once again flatten out the imaginary of the pictured broad-screen sized BlackBerry (iPhone-alike), with solid pictures and detail of the new BlackBerry flip-phone code named KickStart:- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- "Next Gen" SureType keyboard
- 2 Megapixel camera
- 16-bit color LCDs
- Internal LCD is 240×320, external one is 160×128
- Wi-Fi b,g
- 3.5mm headset jack
- OS is 4.6
It would most probably that RIM will inject both Pearl’s
multimedia features, and BlackBerry’s integrated Facebook application into KickStart. Only time will let us know what RIM’s action for this one.
Speaking of action, James Balsillie needs to answer about current BlackBerry services down time on T-Mobile & possibly Bell Mobility networks today; as reported by Engadget Mobile. The scheduled 6 hours outage is in contrast to what RIM’s co-CEO statement at New York: “And I can't stand here before you and say we've been perfect. But we aspire to perfection. And we take our responsibility to provide 100 percent uptime to our customers with the utmost seriousness. And when something happens we make sure that service is restored and no packets are lost."We really hope so, for the sake of CrackBerries all over the world. Who are already got too addicted to BlackBerry’s push-email service, but maybe an anti-dote will bring them to the other side of a new addiction: iPhone 2.0!
Watch video clip footage below on the BlackBerry 9000 series new UI, courtesy of PhoneArena.
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