(Associated Press via NewsEdge) NTT DoCoMo will introduce BlackBerry handheld devices in Japan by offering them to corporate customers later this year, Japan's top mobile carrier said.
BlackBerry devices, from Research In Motion (RIM), based in Ontario, Canada, have a keyboard for typing with the thumb, and offer wireless connection with software such as Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and other corporate data as well as email.
The devices in Japan will operate on the super-fast W-CDMA mobile network, used by cell phones here, and GSM/GPRS networks used abroad to allow for voice and data relay around the world.
RIM has sold about 5 million BlackBerry devices in more than 60 nations so far. NTT DoCoMo controls more than half of Japan's mobile market with 51 million people.
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