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Over the summer, Nokia squeezed BlackBerry Connect out of their E-series devices supposedly in an attempt to stake their own claim to enterprise functions with some help from Microsoft and IBM, but a recent interview with Tom Furlong, head of Nokia’s messaging services, confirmed that RIM will continue to support the service.
“We are in the interim period of time when we have dropped support ourselves, and Blackberry is readying support for their service on Nokia devices,” he said.
Whether or not this will be that fancy new BlackBerry Application Suite we’ve been hearing so much about lately, or if it’s just going to be RIM handling the same old BlackBerry Connect on their own watch is a matter of speculation. BlackBerry is the de facto standard for enterprise mobility, and try as Nokia might, they’ll have an uphill battle if they don’t plug into that ecosystem somehow.
[via Reuters]
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