RIM's BlackBerry to battle "RedBerry" clone in China
In a
surprising turn of events, China has decided to create a cheap domestic rip off of a popular product. With RIM finally
readying the BlackBerry for its Chinese release, after a couple of years of delays, China Unicom has launched a
"RedBerry" service that will offer push email to current subscribers on their existing CDMA handsets. Never
the type to shy away from copyright infringement, China Unicom issued a press release stating: "The RedBerry name
extends the vivid name of BlackBerry that people are already familiar with, and it also combines the new red symbol of
China Unicom." Good to know they're feeling chipper about it. So far there's no word from RIM, but if a lawsuit
doesn't end this there could be some stiff competition in the low-end between the services since the RedBerry offering
sounds to be considerably cheaper than RIM's.[Thanks, Paul]
