Blackberry by Reliance in India - Balle Balle
Its not like Blackberry service was not available in India, the news is that Reliance in partnership with Research In Motion is bringing blackberry services to India thru CDMA network. Blackberry service existed already thru Airtel and Vodafone, which are GSM operators. Also Reliance is the first to launch the BlackBerry 8830 world edition phone in India which interoperates on GSM and CDMA networks and offers internet access (high speed) and international roaming worldwide.
Reliance plans to offer many services via this and such phone in India like Bloomberg Anywhere and stock trading, video streaming etc. “We are confident that our network will offer a superior value proposition to professionals on the move. Reliance is committed to provide world class solutions on BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). For the first time in India, we are launching BlackBerry service with applications such as Internet-based online trading and Blackberry on prepaid. Many more such solutions will follow suit,” said RCOM president Prakash Bajpai.
“BlackBerry smartphones are designed to provide people with the best integrated mobile experience for email, phone, Web browsing and other corporate and personal applications. RIM is very pleased to be working with RCOM to further drive the adoption of BlackBerry smartphones and mobile applications in India,” said RIM vice-president Asia-Pacific Norm Lo.
“The Blackberry 8703e and 8830 will be available in 16 cities to start with and will be gradually rolled out across India,” Mr Bajpai said.
To check out the features of this new Blackberry world edition 8830 phone : www.blackberrycurve.com
To read CNET reviews of Blackberry world edition 8830 phone : http://reviews.cnet.com/smart-phones/rim-blackberry-8830-silver/4505-6452_7-32425829.html
I kind of like this phone, but not the service of Reliance in India, have heard that its bad. I did test the reliance net card when I was in India, and the damn software would not work on Vista.
-Indian Wizard
