Telstra offers soft BlackBerry on Treo 650

Stuart Corner
Sunday, 30 April 2006 20:04

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Telstra has announced that BlackBerry Connect for the Palm's Treo 650 smartphone will be available on its cellular network early in May.
BlackBerry Connect is software that will enable new and existing Treo 650 users to gain the full functionality of RIM's BlackBerry handheld devices. The software will be included in Telstra's $49 a month BlackBerry Enterprise email plan and shortly afterwards on BlackBerry Enterprise subsidised plans.

If press reports are to be believed the move will please Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo. It was said, when he joined Telstra last July, that he had rejected the Telstra standard-issue BlackBerry saying he preferred the Treo, and when told that Telstra did not support the Treo, replied "we do now".