How about a little restitution for the psychological stress that the BlackBerry outage caused last week? How about $2.50? Well, that’s what one will get if they decide to claim it. According to The Boy Genius Report, AT&T is offering a $2.50 rebate for those BlackBerry customers that call in and complain about the service outage. It’s not much, but it sounds like a preemptive response for a class action lawsuit of some sort where after the legal courts, participants receive a measly sum near the same calibre.

In other BlackBerry news, RIM, in a press release, will be delivering a virtual BlackBerry solution (a software suite of BlackBerry applications) that runs on Windows Mobile 6.

Once installed, the software will provide users with a virtual BlackBerry application experience, including support for BlackBerry email, phone, calendar, address book, tasks, memos, browser, instant messaging and other applications developed for the BlackBerry platform. Devices running the BlackBerry application suite will be able to connect to BlackBerry services via BlackBerry(R) Enterprise Server as well as BlackBerry(R) Internet Service.

The new BlackBerry application suite will complement existing Windows Mobile 6 functionality and will appear as an icon on the screen in the same manner as other third-party applications. Upon clicking the BlackBerry icon, a suite of BlackBerry applications will load and will feature the familiar user interface of a BlackBerry smartphone. The device’s existing Windows Mobile applications are preserved, allowing the user to easily and quickly switch between the Windows Mobile applications and the BlackBerry application suite.

Key benefits of running the new BlackBerry application suite on a Windows Mobile-based device will include:

- The added benefit of BlackBerry applications, such as email, phone, text messaging, browser, instant messaging and organizer with a consistent user interface and messaging experience.

- BlackBerry “push” technology – messages and information updates can be delivered automatically to the Windows Mobile-based device, enabling users to be more responsive to colleagues, clients, friends and family.

- Support for BlackBerry(R) Mobile Data System (BlackBerry MDS) allowing organizations to develop their own BlackBerry applications or deploy third-party BlackBerry applications that can run on Windows Mobile-based devices as well as BlackBerry smartphones.

- Support for various input methods, including QWERTY keyboards, 5-way navigation, touch screen and stylus operation so users can continue to use the unique hardware features of their Windows Mobile-based device.

- Support on BlackBerry(R) Internet Service, which provides push-based email from up to 10 supported email accounts (including most popular ISP accounts), attachment viewing and web browsing with optimized wireless efficiency.

- Support on BlackBerry(R) Enterprise Server, which tightly integrates with Microsoft(R) Exchange, IBM(R) Lotus(R) Domino(R) or Novell(R) GroupWise(R) to provide synchronized, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data with the industry’s most advanced security features, over-the-air IT policy enforcement capabilities and optimized wireless efficiency.

Expect in the future to find BlackBerries everywhere – virtually on Windows Mobile 6 phones.

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