BlackBerry’s to get Wi-Fi, camera, MP3 player, GPS, memory slots, and more
RIM announced that the Blackberry will beef up on features in the coming months—presumably to combat the strong competition from the Treo 700w, 700p, Motorola Q, and other recent smartphones. By the end of this year we should see the addition of Wi-Fi, a still camera, a video camera, memory expansion slots, GPS, and MP3 playback.
In addition RIM will expand its BlackBerry Connect service in the United States, with the service coming to Palm devices in July. BlackBerry Connect allows non-BlackBerry devices to use the BlackBerry network. “Twenty non-BlackBerry devices can use the BlackBerry service now,“ Balsillie said, adding that 20 more would be able to use it this year including CDMA devices (currently only GSM devices support the software). Balsillie said that one area that was starting to grow quickly was the market for BlackBerry peripherals. He said these included printers, bar-code scanners, RFID (radio-frequency identification) scanners, and digital pen and paper.
Balsillie refused to answer questions about rumors that RIM was in discussions to buy Palm, saying only that his company sees itself as “one in a plurality of wireless device providers.“ He also declined to say which BlackBerry he thought was the coolest; he said they were different to meet the needs of different users.
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I am waiting for new blackberry with Wi-Fi GPS,camera, memory cart etc
on July 11, 2007 at 12:23 AM - LINKi am interisted in wi-fi camera gps memory card blackberry with t.mobile service with full key bord
on July 13, 2007 at 05:48 PM - LINK