As part of a newly-created team, you’ll influence the development and design of BlackBerry software,” the listing reads. “This is a very confidential brand new team and a senior position within RIM so I can’t provide too many details. I guess you can figure out what it might be about though.

I guess there are a couple of ways you could go with this. RIM is definitely working on a touch screen BlackBerry. Maybe they are looking for someone with expertise on the iPhone’s interface. The issue I see here is that it will take them years to come up with something as good as the iPhone’s interface and as I’ve said before, RIM cannot out Apple Apple.

The other thought is that RIM is looking for an iPhone developer to actually develop software for the iPhone. The question here is what BlackBerry software could RIM possibly want to run on the iPhone? I’ve got two words for you…

BlackBerry Connect…

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Is it just me, or, does this sound an awful lot like BlackBerry Connect?

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The BlackBerry Connect program enables the mob-e-mail leader’s push e-mail and data access solutions to work with non-Blackberry devices. BlackBerry Connect 4.0 adds the ability to generate an encryption key wirelessly, wireless activation of a device in the enterprise, AES in addition to Triple Data Encryption Standard (DES), Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese language support, and the ablity to erase and disable a BlackBerry-enabled device

BlackBerry Connect 4.0, Nokia E90

BlackBerry Connect on HTC handsets supports push-based wireless email access, wireless email reconciliation and attachment viewing in conjunction with both BlackBerry® Enterprise Server and BlackBerry® Internet Service.

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Digicel will initially offer the BlackBerry Connect service in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dutch Caribbean islands. Digicel plans, however, to expand BlackBerry Connect to all 22 of the companies markets.

BlackBerry Connect, Digicel, Sony Ericsson P990

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.

Read the full press release…

Digicel, Sony Ericsson P990

 
The BlackBerry Pearl may have a bit of competition from another new release from T-Mobile. The Samsung t719, a SureType keyboard toting, BlackBerry Connect running, digital picture taking, flip phone is available for $199.99 on their website.

The T719 will also feature a rotating, 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, a speakerphone, Voice command dialing, and run on T-Mobile’s high-speed EDGE network.

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Samsung t719, T-Mobile, BlackBerry Connect, SureType

The availability of BlackBerry Connect on the Palm Treo 650 represents a marriage of two very popular wireless offerings that now gives Cingular customers more choice, said Michael Woodward, executive director, mobile professional solutions, for Cingular Wireless. Businesses can now leverage their existing BlackBerry Enterprise Server while giving employees a powerful, new wireless device option.

BlackBerry Connect for the Treo 650 includes the following features:

• Push Corporate Email delivers messages automatically — and wirelessly — to the Treo 650s inbox. Changes to the inbox, including read/unread status and deletion, can be automatically synchronized between the users email account and the Treo 650.
• Wireless Calendar Synchronization keeps the Treo 650s built-in Calendar up to date remotely, allowing users to receive, accept or decline meeting requests on the go.
• Attachment Viewing lets users view Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDF documents in original format.
• Remote Address Lookup (RAL) allows users to search their corporate directory wirelessly for email addresses without the need to download every name to the Treo 650.
• Enables centralized device management, including support for IT policies such as over-the-air device disablement and password device lock, as well as end-to-end security with Triple DES encryption.

Read the full Press Release…

BlackBerry Connect, Palm Treo 650, Cingular

I understand that Research in Motion still makes dump truck loads of money off of device sales, however, it seems to me that monthly subscriber fees are the key to long term viability for the company as handsets will eventually become commodities.

RIM should take a page from Microsoft and worry not so much about which devices BlackBerry Connect runs on so long as it runs on 87 to 93% of all devices. I know that the carriers play a big role in this and they too should get the ball rolling on making BlackBerry Connect available on more devices.

It seems like when the Motorola Q and the BlackBerry 8700 started picking up steam all talks about the RazrBerry seemed to die of. This is, in fact, the second time that I have written about what happened to the RazrBerry. I only bring it up because the BlackBerry Rumor Mill seems to be in full swing and the one of the top two guys over at Research in Motion kind of acknowledged its existence.

Has anyone heard anything?

RazrBerry, Motorola