RIM's BlackBerry Connect extended to New Sony Ericsson P990 and M600

Waterloo, Ontario -- Research In Motion (RIM)today announced it is extending its relationship with Sony Ericsson to bring BlackBerry connectivity to the new Sony Ericsson P990 and M600 phones. The P990 and M600 are based on the enhanced Symbian OS version 9.1 platform.
Supported BlackBerry features include push-based wireless email access, wireless email reconciliation and attachment viewing through BlackBerry Enterprise Server(TM) and BlackBerry Internet Service(TM). Additional features supported through BlackBerry Enterprise Server include:
- wireless calendar synchronization;
- remote look-up of corporate email address directory;
- Triple DES encryption; and
- IT policy enforcement and commands (such as remotely disabling or wiping data from a device in the event it is lost or stolen).
The Sony Ericsson P990 and M600 phones with BlackBerry Connect will be demonstrated at the RIM and Sony Ericsson booths at 3GSM from February 13 - 16, 2006.