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RIM Offers BlackBerry Service Without the BlackBerry

Posted by Zonk on from the spreading-the-crack-around dept.

TheCybernator writes "RIM has announced that they're essentially planning to offer BlackBerry service ... without the BlackBerry. The company plans an app suite that will turn its push e-mail technology into a platform for Windows Mobile 6 devices. Less than a week after a network outage crippled BlackBerry users across North America, Research In Motion announced an application pack for Windows Mobile 6 devices that Canadian software developers said will intensify the competition for push e-mail. The firm has said that the BlackBerry Application suite will appear as an icon on the screen of the Mobile Windows device and load BlackBerry applications such as e-mail, phone, calendar, address book, tasks, memos, browser, and instant messaging. RIM said users will easily be able toggle between the two platforms, one of which would have a BlackBerry-style interface."

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  1. Hey! by FlyingSquidStudios · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great! A service I would never pay for is now on two different platforms! Now people can be even more annoying during meetings!

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    1. Re:Hey! by GreyPoopon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Great! A service I would never pay for is now on two different platforms! Now people can be even more annoying during meetings!

      OK. I have to play devil's advocate... Why wouldn't you pay for the service? Have you ever considered that maybe the meetings are engaging enough to keep people from turning to their BlackBerry devices out of sheer boredom?
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  2. This is in response to their previous offer. by AltGrendel · · Score: 4, Funny
    Blackberries without Blackberry service.

    Of course, that was a very limited time offer.

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  3. Connecting the dots... by LilGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine: The service worked virtually flawlessly for years, and just a week before the announcement that they will be integrating Windows devices, it all goes crashing down.

    RIP RIM.

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  4. Microsoft to RIM by mkiwi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft: We're worried about this iPhone thing eventually getting into the business marketplace.
    RIM: We understand, but we don't think it's a big deal right...
    Microsoft: Do you want us to give you the chair?
    RIM: No sir.

  5. Covering all the bases by suckmysav · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cool,

    First they offer us the Blackberry without the network, now they offer us the network without the Blackberry. What next? No network and no Blackberry?

    Hey, I've already got that upgrade!

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