EDGE-enabled BlackBerry 7130g available to mobile professionals in the United States

Sep 2, 2006 06:41 GMT  ·  By

Dobson Cellular Systems and Research In Motion (RIM) announced the availability of the EDGE-enabled BlackBerry 7130g to mobile professionals in the United States.

The BlackBerry 7130g offers complete BlackBerry functionality in a sleek, stylish handset, including push-based wireless email, phone, text messaging, browser, organizer as well as the ability to access the company intranet and other business applications. By combining a high performance device platform with Dobson's high-speed EDGE network, the BlackBerry 7130g delivers a fast and responsive experience when browsing the web, viewing attachments and running other mobile applications.

The brilliant, high-resolution 240 x 260 color LCD screen supports more than 65,000 colors and incorporates intelligent light sensing technology that automatically adjusts both the LCD and keyboard lighting to provide an optimized view in outdoor, indoor and dark environments. The BlackBerry 7130g also incorporates premium phone features including dedicated "send" and "end" and "mute" keys, smart dialing, conference calling, speed dial, call forwarding, polyphonic and MP3 ring tones, as well as speakerphone and Bluetooth to allow support for a broad range of wireless headsets and car kits.

The BlackBerry 7130g also incorporates RIM's SureType keyboard technology, which effectively converges a phone keypad and a QWERTY keyboard to allow for a narrower wireless phone form factor. The BlackBerry 7130g with SureType gives users the familiar look and feel of a phone and allows them to dial phone numbers and type messages quickly, accurately and comfortably.

For corporate customers, BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise 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 allows users to access up to ten corporate and personal email accounts (including Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and most popular ISP email accounts) from a single device.