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Sorry, couldn’t resist.

According to berryreview.com (who got the news pics from a tipster) you will soon have the option of running the Blackberry OS as an application on your Windows Mobile device.

This is what RIM is officially calling the BlackBerry Application Suite which we told you about in the past that is posed to replace the aging BlackBerry Connect. Essentially the BlackBerry OS is running as an application on Windows Mobile virtualizing the BlackBerry OS. From what I can tell this will have all of the BlackBerry 4.2 OS features in it.

I can certain see where there would be some people that would love this, but I don’t think I would be too nuts about it.  Obviously this will give companies the option to buy either a Blackberry or a Windows Mobile device, but is there really much advantage?  I know our IT guys would not want to have to support a virtual BB app on a second platform when you can just buy the Blackberry.  This is more likely to appeal to individuals that have to use Blackberry for work but are willing and able to buy their own device and expense it.

Am I missing anything with the above statement?

The obviously additional point here is that Windows Mobile can now do the same stuff using an Exchange server, so it isn’t like the only option for companies is the Blackberry server.

Source: berryreview.com

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