RIM BlackBerry joining the WiFi party later this year

Looks like Research In Motion has finally accepted WiFi as a viable network platform; RIM’s CEO announced last week that they company would intro a BlackBerry with both WiFi and cellular capabilities in the second half of the year. BlackBerry handsets are traditionally targeted to the enterprise markets, but last I checked, they were pretty accepting of WiFi as a network. Oh, if we only had an "it’s about time" category on the blog….

The Blackberry Enterprise Server will treat WiFi networks as just another usable network, so the handset can seamlessly switch among networks for data. I thought that RIM had a WiFi / cellular handset in the past, but upon checking, I must have been thinking of the BlackBerry 7270: it has WiFi but no cellular.

(via Phone Scoop)