Blackberry Connect is what RIM dubs it technology to allow 3rd party hardware vendors the ability to have”push” Blackberry email. There has been much hype with Blackberry Connect which dates all the way back from 2003 where RIM agreed to license their technology to Palm. Still no devices have been released by Palm, even though in a Press Release dated May 18th 2004 they stated:
The BlackBerry® Connect offering for Palm OS is the result of a joint development effort between PalmSource and RIM, announced in December 2003, to provide Palm OS licensees with access to the industry-leading, push-based, BlackBerry wireless infrastructure and to enable seamless connectivity between Palm Powered smart mobile devices and BlackBerry wireless services (including BlackBerry Enterprise Server™ and BlackBerry Web Client™), as well as global address list look-up and IT policy support. PalmSource is expected to make the Palm OS Mail Client that supports BlackBerry Connect available to Palm OS licensees in the second half of 2004, as previously announced.
I hope that the delays are not the result of the patent-infringement lawsuit filed against RIM by NTP. Or we can just assume that Palm is too trigger happy with their product announcements, just look at the Cobalt OS.
