BlackBerry is going high-speed as Cingular Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry 8700c, the first BlackBerry to support high-speed EDGE technology.

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The BlackBerry 8700c features a re-engineered platform that is optimized for performance and usability. It will be available in the U.S. exclusively from Cingular Wireless beginning November 21.

The BlackBerry 8700c provides users with email, phone, browsing and corporate data applications. With the enhanced platform and EDGE capabilities, BlackBerry 8700c users will experience faster web browsing, application performance and attachment viewing.

The BlackBerry 8700c operates on Cingular's EDGE network availability in 13,000 cities along nearly 40,000 miles of highways.

"The BlackBerry 8700c represents another innovative development in the close collaboration and long-standing relationship that Cingular has had with RIM while becoming the leading BlackBerry provider," said Kent Mathy, President of Cingular. "The EDGE-enabled BlackBerry 8700c from Cingular Wireless is the perfect tool to deliver an outstanding data and voice experience, while extending even more critical business processes into mobile environments."

Unrivaled Email and Browsing Performance

Operating on Cingular's high speed wireless network and featuring an enhanced BlackBerry device platform, a powerful Intel processor, 64 MB flash memory and 16 MB SRAM, the BlackBerry 8700c delivers a dynamic, highly responsive, Cingular-exclusive user experience for browsing the Web, running applications and viewing email attachments and graphics. In addition, the device provides exceptional resolution and ample workspace for viewing email, web pages, applications and other information. The BlackBerry 8700c also features a backlit, ergonomic, full QWERTY keyboard that allows for quick, comfortable and accurate message typing and data entry.

Smoothly Integrated Phone Features

The stylish BlackBerry 8700c from Cingular Wireless provides customers with an outstanding converged voice and data experience. The handset is light, comfortable and well designed to allow loud and clear phone calls. It blends high-end phone features including quad-band GPRS/GSM and EDGE network support; "send," "end" and "mute" phone keys; and other intuitive call management features including smart dialing, conference calling, speed dialing and call forwarding. It also delivers Bluetooth support to ensure wide compatibility with hands-free accessories and car kits, as well as a built-in speakerphone for conference calls and hands-free use.

LCD with Auto-Sensing Technology

The BlackBerry 8700c features a bright, high-resolution, landscape QVGA (320x240) LCD. The display supports over 65,000 colors and utilizes active matrix transmissive technology to deliver vivid graphics. The display also incorporates intelligent light sensing technology that automatically adjusts both the LCD and keyboard lighting to provide an optimized view in outdoor, indoor and dark environments.

Intel Processor

The BlackBerry 8700c utilizes the Intel XScale architecture and the Intel PXA901 cellular processor (codenamed "Hermon") to enable exceptional EDGE communications capabilities, as well as industry-leading application performance, without compromising battery life requirements. The Intel XScale architecture provides users of the BlackBerry 8700c with the increased processing power needed to enjoy a rich user experience while running a variety of applications.

"Cingular is a pioneer in driving new devices, new services and new features into the mobile market and RIM is the company that made mobile email real and tremendously compelling," said Sean Maloney, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Mobility Group. "BlackBerry has now become a cultural icon. Using Intel's XScale-based communications processor technology, the new BlackBerry 8700c from Cingular Wireless adds to this heritage by delivering a leap forward in performance, all in an incredibly sleek and compact design."

BlackBerry and Cingular - For Both Enterprises and Individuals

Another important and distinguishing feature of the BlackBerry 8700c is the proven and popular BlackBerry platform, which provides individuals and companies of all sizes with the necessary architecture and infrastructure to provide a superb "push" email experience and a solid foundation for other mobile data applications.

For corporate customers, BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise and works with existing enterprise systems to enable secure, push-based, wireless access to email and other corporate data. Enterprise customers also can take advantage of BlackBerry MDS to enable secure, wireless access to other back-office applications.

For individuals and smaller businesses, BlackBerry Internet Service allows users to support up to 10 corporate and personal email accounts from a single device. These include Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and most popular ISP email accounts.

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1. Posted by PunkRock	Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:45 pm
Best one yet! RIM got this one right!
2. Posted by DJMoo	Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:49 pm
Wow... drool. AND its got a full-QWERTY keyboard. None of that SureType crap for me.
3. Posted by Bushy Turtle	Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:09 pm
I'm a bit disappointed they went back to the ugly box design. But a full-QWERTY is better than SureType that's for sure.
4. Posted by DJMoo	Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:42 pm
Anyone know when this is coming out?

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