• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • Archives

RIMarkable

The Unofficial BlackBerry Weblog

  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Rumor Mill
You are here: Home / BlackBerry / BlackBerry Connect comes to the United States

BlackBerry Connect comes to the United States

September 28, 2005 by Robb Dunewood 1 Comment

Research in Motion and Cingular today introduced BlackBerry Connect to the United States on the Nokia 9300 smartphone. All I have to say is, “It’s about Time!” Cingular Wireless is the first U. S. carrier to offer BlackBerry wireless services on third-party handsets.

I am not really sure why it took so long for BlackBerry Connect to come to the U.S. but now that it is here, I am sure that the other carriers will be soon to follow. If, and more likely, when BlackBerry Connect catches on here in the U. S., the overall business model for BlackBerry may start to morph. Currently RIM makes two thirds of it’s revenue off of BlackBerry unit sales. Now that you can essentially get BlackBerry service on many devices, the model may change from hardware vendor first and service provider second, to the visa versa.

I am not business trends expert but I would be willing to bet that there are much higher margins in BlackBerry service as compared to unit sales. The BlackBerry brand has cult appeal second only to the iPod. If RIM plays their cards right, they can still sell the BlackBerry handheld devices like mad, and ingrain BES into corporate America even more so than it already is by offering front running corporate email to a mobile workforce on any, or at least many, hardware platforms.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: BlackBerry

Reader Interactions

Trackbacks

  1. RIMarkable » Blog Archive » Nokia to buy BlackBerry Rival Intellisynch for $430 million says:
    November 16, 2005 at 11:32 pm

    […] deals with RIM for the use of BlackBerry Connect on some of it’s devices such as the Nokia 9300 smart phone and Nokia 9500 Communicatar as well as deals with other mobile email providers such […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Like What you See?

If you're serious about your business, the Aspire theme is the way to go.

Recent Posts

  • The Priv…..You Better Market It!!
  • BB10… A Slow Death?
  • The Day BlackBerry Forced Me To Leave BlackBerry
  • BlackBerry Hank Says Goodbye
  • Get A 10% Discount Code On A New BlackBerry Silver Passport

Copyright © 2021 · News Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in