Blackberry 7270: Now with VoIP and WLAN Support
Both Geekzone.com and Engagdet reported on the news that Blackberry is demostrating a new model at the Gartner ITXPO Symposium in Orlando, FL. The big new feature? Wireless LAN support and Voice over IP. Unfortunately, I'm not all that hip to the phone terminology ("...utilizes SIP-based call control to deliver standards-based interoperability with IP PBX and traditional corporate telephony equipment."), but I think that means that you can use this model almost as a replacement for your office phone; all calls could be forwarded from your desk phone to your Blackberry and vice versa... all of this happening over a local wireless network, so you wouldn't be incurring data or voice charges from your cell phone provider. That's pretty cool stuff.
October 18, 2004 in News by ajohnson