Like everyone else at WES today, we were impressed by the new BlackBerry Bold. It's a very impressive combination of technologies and capabilities (all covered in depth in the general and technology press), and it expands the range of things that BlackBerry users can do on their devices.
Because BlackBerry ties in so seamlessly with enterprise environments, the Bold may satisfy both the IT and the end user communities -- the former because the Bold doesn't compromise enterprise security and stability and the latter because it's just plain cool. Not iPhone cool, but cool for a corporate crowd.
From our perspective, the Bold (also called the 9000) is likely to make mobile users even more eager to shift their away-from-their-desks, out-of-the-office interactions to handheld devices. If they can handle phone calls, email, tasks, appointments, and also all their interactions with enterprise applications on a single device, will they still want to lug around a laptop if they don’t have to?
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