Nokia: BlackBerry support triumphantly returning to S60 by way of RIM
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Jan 21st 2009 at 8:35AM
Given its business-oriented roots, Nokia's Eseries took a pretty big hit to its credibility when it lost BlackBerry support with the release of the E66 and E71 last year -- support previous models had rocked out of the box. In a recent interview with Reuters, Tom Furlong, the company's head of messaging services (bet he gets a lot of texts) talked up its recent tie-ups with Microsoft and IBM for corporate email, saying the move precluded them from continuing support for BlackBerry as well -- though it's unclear if that's for contractual, political, or engineering manpower reasons. So the bad news is that BlackBerry support won't be coming from Espoo from here on out, but the great news is that RIM will apparently be picking up where Nokia left off. No timeline was given, but Furlong says its transatlantic buddy is "readying" support for S60, so who knows -- that sexy E71 might still be the ultimate mobile email machine after all.[Via Symbian-Guru]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
eggothewaffle @ Jan 21st 2009 9:10AM
ProfiMail does what BBS essentially does and there's only a one time cost for the software instead of a monthly fee.
In fact, in an informal test with a bunch of my friends' Blackberries, it pushed email as fast or faster than all of them.
Copay @ Jan 21st 2009 12:52PM
No, it doesn't. Blackberry's staple is it's corporate mail integration (read:Exchange). Profimail doesn't do Exchange, just "Support for POP3 / IMAP / SMTP mail servers" in it's latest version (3.01).
Fernando @ Jan 21st 2009 3:08PM
For that exists Mail for Exchange, right? (I'm not into those corporate protocols but am taking a guess here)
Crunch @ Jan 22nd 2009 1:18AM
One quick question. To what extent does BlackBerry Connect work on non-BB devices? Will only BES, or also BIS work? Would the push feature work? Will a BB user be able to use the PIN feature just like it was another BlackBerry?
Thanks...:)