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Originally Posted by sempai
http://www.mobileburn.com/pressrelease.jsp?Id=1475
This looks like an exceptional product. They charge between 50USD and 100USD per user.
They support Symbian UIQ, Series 60, Series 80, Palm OS - and - the kick in the balls to RIM, any J2ME MIDP2.0 device (for email only).
This means that instant delivery of email is available on devices like the Sony Ericsson K700, K750, S700, Motorola V3/RAZR, and hundreds of other devices.
Email delivery to mobile devices is no longer the property of RIM. Clearly they are a dominant force in the North American market for email, but we are now on the cusp of watching RIM scramble to innovate in a space that is now starting to get crowded.
What does it mean for BlackBerry users? Nothing right now.
What does it mean for the market? That suddenly hundreds of thousands of Symbian devices have full BlackBerry-esque sync capability to Exchange 2003, including email delivery. So now if you are fed up with the dull, lackluster, cold impersonal nature of the BlackBerry, you can get the same (or darn near identical) user experience on much fancier whiz-bang devices.
Dataviz's timeline: http://www.dataviz.com/solutions/ent.../timeline.html
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sempai, "push" email delivery to symbiam devices could have been achieved even earlier through 3rd party apps. So just because someone could do push email doesn't make blackberry solution go away just like iPods are not going away because you can play music on a cell phone.
And by the way this topic should have been somewhere else I would think. Why is it "Rumor Mill"?