Computerworld UK: Research In Motion expects to offer a BlackBerry mobile phone that also supports Wi-Fi, the company’s CEO said.
Speaking at the JP Morgan Technology Conference, RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie said such a converged BlackBerry should come out “in the back half of this year.”
RIM is behind its competitors in developing devices with both cellular and Wi-Fi.
Motorola and Nokia were both selling such phones, aimed at business users, last year. RIM recently hinted at forthcoming converged phones but until now hadn’t said when they would ship.
“Wi-Fi was over-hyped,” Balsillie said. “I was not a big believer in it for the first two or three years because it was hyped as something that would subsume everything, that you would get rid of your cell phone. We feel it’s complementary of a cell phone.”
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