BlackBerry Connect

Tuesday, January 2nd 2007 - 02:38 CET - Comments: 0

D igicel First in the Caribbean to Launch BlackBerry Connect for the Sony Ericsson P990 Kingston, Jamaica and Waterloo, ON - Digicel, the largest GSM operator in the Caribbean, and Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced BlackBerry Connect for the Sony Ericsson P990 to customers in nine Caribbean markets. The Sony Ericsson P990 with BlackBerry Connect allows customers to choose and enjoy the phone’s comprehensive features and stylish design together with RIM’s popular BlackBerry services. Supported BlackBerry features include push-based wireless email access, wireless email reconciliation and attachment viewing through BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service.

 

BlackBerry additional features:

• wireless calendar synchronization;
• remote look-up of corporate email addresses;
• Triple DES encryption; and
• IT policy enforcement and commands (such as remotely disabling or wiping data from a device in the event it is lost or stolen).

BlackBerry Connect offers powerfull wireless solution

According to Marketing Director for Digicel Group, Ben Atherton: "As the Caribbean's fastest growing mobile provider, Digicel is proud to be the first to introduce BlackBerry Connect for the Sony Ericsson P990 to the region. The stylish and feature-rich P990 phone, together with BlackBerry Connect, offers customers a powerful wireless solution."

 

BlackBerry Connect for the Sony Ericsson P990 availability

BlackBerry Connect for the Sony Ericsson P990 is available immediately from Digicel in Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, as well as Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Turks & Caicos; with plans to expand the offering across all of Digicel's 22 markets.

 

BlackBerry Connect - Professional benefits of wireless email

"More and more people are recognizing and embracing the personal and professional benefits of wireless email and we are very pleased to be expanding our relationship with Digicel to extend BlackBerry services to a wider range of customers in the Caribbean market," said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion.