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RIM OS for Nokia 6820?
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Posted by: Orion225

I'd really like to use the Blackberry features from the UK in NA. I already have a Nokia 6820 and in Europe you can get the RIM OS on it...

How do I do that in NA? Is it just a case of finding a dealer who can flash the Nokia OS?

Thanks!

-O

Posted by: NJBlackBerry

If you can find anyone in North America who can flash a 6820 to use RIM, please post their name here....

Posted by: jrsmooth

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Originally posted by Orion225
I'd really like to use the Blackberry features from the UK in NA. I already have a Nokia 6820 and in Europe you can get the RIM OS on it...

Thanks!

-O

AFAIK RIM is a proprietary OS and can only runs on proprietary hardware, just like a MAC OS will not run on PC hardware without adapting platform. You mention you can get the RIM OS on a 6820 in Europe, can you give more details on it (where and how), or you just heard it in a bar from some drunk guy?

I would love to see how that is possible, consider RIM OS is not that open, or some adapting platforms are so tiny that can fit into a 6820.

Posted by: NJBlackBerry

There is a program called BlackBerry Connect, announced last year.

Nokia has already ported the RIM stack onto the 6820 and it is available in the UK. Nokia recently signed an agreement with NTP precluding them from being sued if NTP prevails in their lawsuits with RIM.

Yesterday Motorola announced their participation in the program, with the new MPx and MPx220 smartphones (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040727/275346_1.html) and PalmSource announced their participation last May.

http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=6824

This is not from a drunk in a bar, it's from the RIM web site.

http://www.blackberry.com/blackberr...ID=ILC-hconnect

It's also running on some PocketPC devices.

Posted by: jrsmooth

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Originally posted by NJBlackBerry
[B]...There is a program called BlackBerry Connect, announced last year...

From the 3 articles you mentioned, the technology that RIM licensed is consider a "connector", just like the Lotus Notes Connector for MS Exchange you will find in the exchange server. To me, it is this connector enables the Palm OS or the Pocket PC OS to communicate with the BlackBerry network, the device still running by the PalmOS or PocketPC OS.

What I understood the OP's intension is that, he wants to flash the RIM OS into the 6320, or at least part of it. I am wrong it this is not what the OP's intension.

Posted by: NJBlackBerry

All the program does is port the RIM e-mail stack onto the device. You then use whatever e-mail client is on the 6820 or Treo 600 or MPx220 or whatever.

I never said you were wrong (or meant to imply it); I read the OPs intentions to be to get his e-mail off of the BlackBerry network (and BES, presumably) just like he would with a BlackBerry. That can be done.

The RIM OS certainly is not running on any non-RIM device.

Posted by: jrsmooth

Understood.

So there is a way to "add" that RIM feature to my 6230? That will be hot...

Posted by: NJBlackBerry

Back to my original post

I have yet to find anyone who can add the RIM stack to a Nokia phone...