Vodafone and Research In Motion, today introduced the BlackBerry® 8707v™ in the Netherlands. The UMTS-enabled BlackBerry 8707v allows customers to make voice calls and simultaneously send or receive emails, browse the Internet or use other applications. The BlackBerry 8707v can also be used as a wireless modem for laptops, offering mobile users more choice on how they stay connected to the Internet. The BlackBerry 8707v is exclusively available from Vodafone.
With the BlackBerry 8707v, we introduce the first UMTS-enabled BlackBerry designed to support a multitude of applications including email, voice, Internet and organiser. This device is designed to meet the needs of even the most demanding users.
said Jeroen Hoencamp, Director of Vodafone’s Enterprise Business Unit in the Netherlands.
The BlackBerry 8707v features 64 MB flash memory and 16 MB SDRAM. With a bright, high-resolution color landscape QVGA (320 x 240) LCD screen, the BlackBerry 8707v provides ample workspace to view email, web pages, applications and other information. Intelligent light sensing technology automatically optimises screen lighting levels for indoor and outdoor viewing. The BlackBerry 8707v integrates attachment viewing that includes support for popular text and image file formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PDF, ASCII, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and PNG.
For corporate customers, BlackBerry Enterprise Server(TM) software tightly integrates with Microsoft(R) Exchange, IBM Lotus(R) Domino(R) and Novell GroupWise(R), and works with existing enterprise systems to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data.
For individuals and smaller businesses, BlackBerry Internet Service(TM) enables users to individually manage up to ten corporate and/or personal email accounts (including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook, IBM Lotus Domino and most popular ISP email accounts) from a single device.
