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Written by Alan Bradock
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Saturday, 21 February 2009 08:07 |
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Now Business travelers will use their BlackBerry smartphones to automatically forward e-mail to their ThinkPad laptop Pcs.
-How is it possible?
Lenovo Group Ltd. and Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) developed a $150 device , said the two companies Monday.
It is called « Lenovo Constant Connect », the service has a hardware and a software component that was developed over two years by Lenovo engineers in Beijing, Japan and North Carolina, Rich Cheston, a distinguished engineer and executive director in Lenovo's software and peripherals business unit, said in an interview Friday.
The hardware part is a small ExpressCard device with 512GB of flash RAM and a Bluetooth antenna that pairs up with the user's BlackBerry via Bluetooth to download any new e-mail.
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