Chinese Telecom Company Launches 'RedBerry'

Ubergrendle writes "The Globe&Mail is reporting that Chinese telecom company China Unicom Ltd. is launching a new wireless device unapologetically named 'Redberry'. This comes in the wake of an almost 2 year regulatory delay blocking the introduction of RIM's Blackberries to mainland China. Certainly this delay was convenient to China Unicom, if not deliberately staged to allow for domestic competition."

Comments

Re:Leave it to China

[LiquidCoooled]

From one of the articles I read, the Redberry name is just a nickname for the "Uni Pushmail" software running on the phones.

The first wave of Daxian CU-928 Pocket PC phones
bundled with Uni PushMail software has started pouring into the market. Not
to be outdone by the internationally renowned Blackberry, the Redberry, as
Uni PushMail is nicknamed, flourishes in the Chinese telecom value-added
service sector.

see previous post for link to full article.

Re:Why is blackberry so unique?

[nvrrobx]

From a users perspective, here's the reasons I was almost inseperable from my old RIM 950 (I'm pretty sure 950 was the model - this was prior to them becoming cell phones also):

* Push email. I ran an agent on my Outlook at work and email appeared on my Blackberry, subject to the filtering rules I put in place. This is better than IMAP and POP3, I literally only saw emails I care about on the device. I'd much rather design my filters in an Outlook-like interface than on a small device.

* The scroll wheel. It seems lame, but it's dead simple to navigate around the device with just your thumb.

* Small, efficient keyboard. Writing email was simple. A lot easier than T9.

Blackberry is canadian not american

[Anonymous Coward]

Just to set the records straight, Blackberry/RIM is based out of Ontario, Canada NOT USA.

No copycat hardware

[EmbeddedJanitor]

RTFA. Redberry uses an existing cellphone as the device and does not require special Blackberry-style hardware. All this does is mail forwarding to an existing cell phone. All this is involved is a small incremental service cost. No need for the huge Blackberry costs.

The branding copycatting charge is a bit thin. Most people should be easily able to tell the difference between the two. It's certainly less confusing than Lindows.