Blackberry Market Research

I received a email message from RUM Marketing inviting me to RIM Market Research http://www.rimmarketresearch.com. This survey was just a preliminary questionnaire, but I’d be happy to provide future feedback to RIM.

I received a email message from RUM Marketing inviting me to RIM Market Research http://www.rimmarketresearch.com. Very happy to participative. This survey was just a preliminary questionnaire, but I’d be happy to provide future feedback to RIM.

Blackberry “Exploit” or Future Feature?

While I understand this is considered an exploit, I feel like it would be really useful to have a feature on the Blackberry where users could connect their laptop to their Blackberry (via USB or Bluetooth), and use the DUN capabilities to establish a secured link back to the internal network.

With the recent exploit “Blackjacking” I am quite surprised that RIM hasn’t considered something like this from the start. Blackjacking is, of course, really only an exploit for Blackberry Enterprise Server users, so standard BIS users need not worry. While I understand this is considered an exploit, I feel like it would be really useful to have a feature on the Blackberry where users could connect their laptop to their Blackberry (via USB or Bluetooth), and use the DUN capabilities to establish a secured link back to the internal network. Verizon already allows their users to connect their devices to their laptops and use the speed of the EV-DO network to dial up, why not take this a step further? Work on it RIM!

Blackberry 7130 GSM

The FCC approved two new GSM Blackberry handhelds: the 7130c (for Cingular Wireless) and the 7130g for other GSM carriers. This new Blackberry appears to have similar characteristics to it’s big brother, the 8700 series (Quadband GSM, EDGE, mini-USB port) but also has an upgraded bluetooth to Bluetooth 2.0.


The FCC approved two new GSM Blackberry handhelds: the 7130c (for Cingular Wireless) and the 7130g for other GSM carriers. This new Blackberry appears to have similar characteristics to it’s big brother, the 8700 series (Quadband GSM, EDGE, mini-USB port) but also has an upgraded bluetooth to Bluetooth 2.0. No carriers have announced this product and it is not shown on the RIM site. Hopefully we’ll see this device soon. Follow the link to see more information from the FCC database.
Via FCC Database