RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis coyly hinted at what was called the BlackBerry Wireless Presentation solution in his day 1 keynote at WES 2009. In his brief mention, it was described as something that would display Powerpoint presentations right from your BlackBerry. There’s already a little something called ShowMate, but it’s a fairly awkward, hardware-based solution. I would hope the one Lazaridis is talking about here would involve some smooth Bluetooth pairing, failing that or hey, maybe even using some handheld pico projector.
Another mystery is, who’s making it? “Wireless Presentation Solution” is a name that reeks of the usual generality RIM puts on their earlier software before giving it something a little snazzier, but Mike mentioned it right after Vocera, a third party voice product for the medical sector, so it’s equally possible the Wireless Presentation Solution is being worked on by a separate software developer. A solution like this is a natural extension of the Documents to Go PowerPoint editing that’s currently available on BlackBerry, but it may be awhile before we get any more details…