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BlackBerry 7 Phones Approved For U.S. Department of Defense Networks
Press Release
TAMPA, FLORIDA–(Marketwire – May 9, 2012) – DISA Mission Partner Conference — Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced DoD-wide approval for the use of BlackBerry® 7 smartphones. Working with U.S. Army and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) sponsors and partners, BlackBerry 7 smartphones have undergone successful testing through Army labs leading to a subsequent listing on DISA’s Unified Communications Approved Product List (UCAPL).
The approval allows all DoD customers to use the following BlackBerry 7 smartphones on DoD networks:
- BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 (touch screen with keyboard)
- BlackBerry Torch 9810 (touch screen with slide out keyboard)
- BlackBerry Torch 9850 and 9860 (full screen touch screen)
- BlackBerry Curve 9360 (keyboard)
“The Army introduced a wide range of new apps and capabilities for their BlackBerry users last year, and these new BlackBerry 7 smartphones will now enable Army users, and all DoD users, to experience an even greater level of performance on new smartphones that include features such as voice activated universal search, Near Field Communications, Augmented Reality, and Social Feeds 2.0 just to name a few,” said Scott Totzke, SVP, BlackBerry Security Group at RIM. “RIM’s unwavering focus on security and RIM’s achievement of key security certifications including FIPS 140-2 validation and Common Criteria EAL4+ accreditation continue to be very important to many of our DoD and enterprise customers, but leveraging the full power of BlackBerry smartphones is also important as it helps them realize the full potential of their investment in the BlackBerry platform.”
For more information about BlackBerry 7 smartphones and features, please visit: www.blackberry.com/bb7.
New BlackBerry Simulators Released
We have a new batch of BlackBerry® smartphone simulators ready to download. There are multiple previously released models with new operating system versions and one brand new model with this group – the BlackBerry® 9320 smartphone. We also have a BlackBerry® Curve™ 9220 smartphone simulator that includes the keyboard and plastics. Here is the list of the latest simulators:
- BlackBerry® 9320 7.1.0.405
- BlackBerry® Curve™ 9220 7.1.0.405
- BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 (Japanese) 7.1.0.318
- BlackBerry® Bold™ 9650 6.0.0.707
- BlackBerry® Curve™ 9300 6.0.0.723
- BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 6.0.0.723
- BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 7.1.0.219
- BlackBerry® Torch™ 9860 (Asia) 7.1.0.267
- BlackBerry® Torch™ 9810 7.1.0.342
- BlackBerry® Torch™ 9860 7.1.0.342
- BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 7.1.0.342
The BlackBerry 9320 smartphone is very similar to the BlackBerry Curve 9220 smartphone we wrote about in this post. Applications compatible with the BlackBerry Curve 9220 smartphone should also run correctly on the BlackBerry 9320 smartphone. Enable your applications for the BlackBerry 9320 smartphone in BlackBerry App World™ using the storefront Vendor Portal as soon as possible; this will ensure that your applications can be approved by the BlackBerry App World team in time for device launch.
Here are the specifications for the BlackBerry 9320 smartphone:
BlackBerry 9320 – Device Info
- 320 x 240 resolution, 164 dpi
- Application Icon size: 46 x 46 pixels
- Memory: 512 MB Internal Persistent Storage, 512 MB RAM
- 3.2 MP Camera, 4 X digital zoom
- QWERTY keyboard
- Networks: UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, EDGE, GPRS, GSM
- Integrated GPS with A-GPS
- FM Radio
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
- Mime type: Mozilla/5.0 (BlackBerry; U; BlackBerry 9320; en-GB) AppleWebKit/534.11+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.1.0.316 Mobile Safari/534.11+
Source: Inside Blackberry