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As expected, Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the addictive BlackBerry line of push-email enabled smartphones, has officially entered the Russian market. The largest country in the world has finally caught up with today’s technological wizz-bangery and will be offering RIM’s staid, business suit-friendly BlackBerry 8700g on Vimpelcom’s network.
Following the Russian security agency’s (FSB) approval of the push-emailing smartphones from RIM, British American Tobacco has placed the first order for a fleet of BlackBerry 8700g handsets. As you might recall, the BlackBerry 8700 is the same addictive handset that cracked the Chinese market, and represents the archetype of the BlackBerry lineup.
Vimpelcom is apparently in talks with 40 other potential corporate customers and rival carrier Mobile TeleSystems is also gearing up to offer the BlackBerry to even more business clients.
Welcome to the CrackBerry club, Russia. Just a quick heads up, prepare yourself for withdrawal-inducing BlackBerry email outages.
[Via: Reuters]
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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
