New Delhi: This is the best thing that could have happened to Windows Mobile users as also the diehard Blackberry addicts. The marriage of the two bitter rivals is on the cards. No, Ontario-based BlackBerry owner Research in Motion (RIM) is not going all the way with world’s largest software maker, but just hitching a ride.

With this step, RIM is in fact taking its strategy of providing BlackBerry software to other handset providers through BlackBerry Connect service in October 2005 to its logical conclusion. Already, BlackBerry services can be availed on a number of handsets from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung and others.

With RIM set to add smartphones based on Windows Mobile 6 operating system to that list, the last bastion is set to fall as far as BlackBerry is concerned. With that, it would also take the fight to the enemy camp. Hence, smartphones running on Windows will soon turn into virtual BlackBerries and the users will have the best of the both worlds: the ease and comfort of working seamlessly from the desktop to mobile environment in Windows and the functionality of best-in-the-class push services from BlackBerry.

RIM plans to offer the software for a number of devices running Windows Mobile 6.0. Once installed, it will provide users with access to BlackBerry applications like its e-mail, phone, calendar, address book, instant messages and other functions.

The devices will be offered through a number of US carriers to begin with in the coming months. The software will appear as an icon on the screen and will have the same interface as a BlackBerry.

Meanwhile, there has been no word from RIM so far on the cause of a massive BlackBerry services outage that disrupted push services, particularly emails, to millions of `CrackBerry’ addicts in the USA last week. The failure had upset even White House and Wall Street, and left user groups including politicians, lawyers, business executives and journalists without email service on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Interestingly, wire reports described self-confessed BlackBerry addicts in the US experiencing both a sense of panic, and relief, as the mobile e-mail device’s network stalled overnight and cut communications for many of its millions of subscribers. It had upset the users who had never before faced such a disruption and missed mails.

Source : mobile.newspartner.net 

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