EMS, Nawras And RIM Introduce The Blackberry Solution In Oman

Muscat, Oman and Waterloo, ON–EMS, Nawras and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the launch of the BlackBerry® solution in Oman. The BlackBerry solution brings together smartphones, software and services to allow easy wireless access to email, phone, calendar, web, multimedia and other business and lifestyle applications. Nawras customers in Oman will now be able to enjoy the freedom and productivity benefits of using BlackBerry® smartphones to stay connected to people and information on the go.

“We have listened carefully to our customers who have asked Nawras to provide them with the BlackBerry solution for business and personal use. We are pleased to offer an exciting solution for our enterprise customers, which delivers advanced security standards as well as rich IT management features, while integrating with existing enterprise systems to extend wireless communications and corporate data applications (including email) to mobile users. We are also excited to offer a BlackBerry service that caters to smaller businesses and individual needs. With BlackBerry smartphones and services, we are continuing to give our customers extensive choice and flexibility in mobile communications with great value, great service and great connectivity,” said Ross Cormack, Chief Executive Officer, Nawras.

“Emitac Mobile Solution (EMS), RIM's strategic channel partner, is pleased to have helped Nawras deliver the ultimate mobile solution to the marketplace,” said Babar Khan, CEO of EMS. “We will be supporting Nawras by helping them in the delivery of the latest upcoming BlackBerry smartphones, services, applications and accessories.”

Charmaine Eggberry, Vice President and Managing Director EMEA at RIM added, “It is with great pleasure that RIM has worked with EMS and Nawras to introduce the BlackBerry solution in Oman. BlackBerry smartphones are the ideal choice for people who want to stay connected to colleagues, friends and family, as well as access a wealth of business and personal information while they are on the move.”
At launch, Nawras will offer the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8310, BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8100, BlackBerry Pearl 8110 and BlackBerry® 8800 smartphones.

BlackBerry Curve 8310:
The BlackBerry Curve 8310 is a powerful and intuitive smartphone that features a full QWERTY keyboard, yet is compact in size. The smartphone also includes rich multimedia capabilities, as well as built-in GPS that supports location-based applications and services such as mapping and navigation.

BlackBerry Pearl 8100 and BlackBerry Pearl 8110:
The BlackBerry Pearl 8100 smartphone, one of the smallest and lightest smartphones on the market, packs functionality and performance in an elegant design. Within its sleek and stylish exterior, this award winning smartphone includes powerful communications features and rich multimedia capabilities including a camera, music and video player and an expandable memory slot for additional storage. The BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone incorporates all the features and functionality of the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 with the additional benefit of built-in GPS.

BlackBerry 8800:
The slim and stylish BlackBerry 8800 smartphone is designed to satisfy the needs of demanding mobile professionals. It includes a full, highly tactile QWERTY keyboard with a range of features including built-in GPS, a multimedia player and an expandable memory card slot. The large, high resolution display, with its automatic light sensing technology, makes viewing email, the Internet and other applications a pleasure.
Nawras is offering BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for corporate customers and BlackBerry® Internet Service for smaller businesses and individual users:
BlackBerry Enterprise Server is targeted specifically for organizations that manage their own email servers. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with IBM® Lotus® Domino®, Microsoft® Exchange and Novell® GroupWise® and uses advanced encryption and IT policy controls to enable highly secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data.

BlackBerry Internet Service is designed for smaller businesses and individuals. It allows customers to access up to 10 supported corporate and personal email accounts (including Yahoo! Mail, Google Mail and most popular ISP email accounts) from a single device.