HTC to Bundle BlackBerry Connect on Its Windows Mobile Devices

[Ed Hardy]

High Tech Computer plans to begin bundling RIM's push email serive on many of the Windows Mobile handhelds and smartphones it designs.

Read more at http://www.brighthand.com/article/HT...ect?site=Other

[Spiderman]

This looks really promising, especially for those who are looking for access to corporate email but didn't want to give up their Windows Mobile devices in favor of the Blackberry.

You'll probably start seeing former Windows Mobile users coming back into the fold.

[jturnbull]

The takeup of Blackberry Connect has been public knowledge for some time, and also been announced by Palm (Oct 04 I think), Nokia, Motorola and I believe HP for some of their products recently too.
http://www.blackberry.com/products/licensing/connect/

But I mostly only ever hear vague timings, which is frustrating!

O2 recently announced it for their XDA2 as a ROM update in just a couple of markets, UK & Ireland;
http://www.my-xda.com/xda2_soft.html

But these announcements without any solid indication of WHEN it will happen imply to me that it is probably 6months or so before we will see it! Anyone have any speculation on this??

Has anyone actually used BBConnect? Any feedback would be good to hear!

[imported_Mark Rejhon]

BlackBerry Connect was held back because of the RIM versus NTP lawsuit. The settlement FINALLY happened (if you didn't see RIM's stock this week).

So now the "BlackBerry Connect" floodgates are finally only starting to open now, you'll see much more of it soon.

We have some BlackBerry connect users currently posting at http://www.BlackBerryForums.com now.