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BlackBerry exec: VoIP is big part of our plans

 Over on my BBHub BlackBerry blog I've just posted an item noting an interview wireless industry news and reviews site Unstrung did earlier this week with David Heit of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion.Heit tells Unstrung senior editor Richard Martin that VoIP is playing a big part in BlackBerry's near-term future plans.
Written by Russell Shaw, Contributor
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Over on my BBHub BlackBerry blog I've just posted an item noting an interview wireless industry news and reviews site Unstrung did earlier this week with David Heit of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion.

Heit tells Unstrung senior editor Richard Martin that VoIP is playing a big part in BlackBerry's near-term future plans. 

"As more of your desktop phone features become available on your handheld you'll end up using them interchangeably. We're looking at voice-over-IP as a major direction, so that instead of giving an employee a desktop phone, you give them a Blackberry, so it's a mobile phone device as well as a secure connection for email," Heit said. 

"And when you add the mobile application capability we've been talking about," Heit added, "then you're really talking about true convergence."

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