Blackberry-Treos coming your way!
As part of the hell-freezes-over initiative taking place in the tech world, owners of Treo 650s can look forward to using Blackberry push email on their units beginning sometime early 2006.
Palm and Research in Motion (RIM) have made a licensing agreement to allow Treos to use Blackberry Connect, a email and communication technology and service immensely popular on Blackberry units used by many mail-intensive and communication-critical businesses. The option will be available beginning 1st Quarter 06 with new Treos.
One of the pluses for many users of the technology will be the more fully-featured QWERTY keyboard of the Treos. The agreement will hold valid for future Palm-powered Treo phones with wireless email, but may not be available for the forthcoming Windows Mobile-powered new Treo 700w, as Windows Mobile has its own push email with Microsoft. Nonetheless, the Palm-RIM Blackberry option will be compatible with Microsoft’s Exchange server and with IBM’s Lotus Domino server.
The service will be most likely available in the US first, and internationally soon after.
We wonder what’s next.
Not as big a deal as the Windows-powered Treo news. Blackberry Connect is also available in one of the phones I reviewed in an earlier issue of m|ph… I think it was the Siemens SK65 (if my feeble memory is functioning well today).
What I’m wondering is if this feature will be useable in the local telco scene…