RIM announces exciting new BlackBerry features

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RIM announces exciting new BlackBerry features

by Jason Harris Jan 23rd 2008

Research in Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry smartphone, announced many highly anticipated features recently at Lotusphere 2008 for BlackBerry Enterprise Server. What can die-hard BlackBerry users expect in the near future? Many features making it easier it easier to message your co-workers and collaborate including:

Download and edit Microsoft Office documents: BlackBerry users have been able to download and view Office documents, thanks to the Documents to Go suite, but soon BlackBerry users will be able to edit these attachments as well.
Free-busy calendar lookup: want to know if Sally is available for a conference call at 3:00 tomorrow? Simply fire up this new utility and find out, before sending a meeting request, that is :)
HTML and Rich Text Email rendering: Rich text emails will now maintain their formatting on the smartphone, including bold, italic, tables, bullets, or whatever formatting your co-workers throw at you.
Integration with corporate IM and Presence applications: By utilizing Lotus Sametime and Microsoft Live Communications Server, you can use the "click to call" feature to engage with co-workers and IM Session "convert to call" automatically takes an IM conversation and makes it a voice one.

We're excited to see RIM taking these steps to make their mobile phones more seamless in the corporate environment. Our Windows Mobile counterparts have been able to edit Office documents for a while, and the other new features are a great step forward as well, especially the integration with the corporate IM services.

Looks like RIM is going to have an impressive 2008.

Tags: blackberry, blackberry enterprise server, BlackberryEnterpriseServer

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fred said 2:48PM on 1-23-2008

And STILL no streaming?

ryaninc said 7:13AM on 1-24-2008

When is all this supposed to be rolled out? The ability to read rich text emails is like, "ahhhhhhhhh!" angels singing. Finally!

Chris Lamb said 10:28PM on 1-26-2008

RIM also announced plans to support social software with applications for IBM Lotus Connections. http://www.rim.net/news/press/2008/pr-23_01_2008-01.shtml

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