The best phone of the best phones

Anyone remember the BlackBerry Application Suite, a project at RIM designed to replace Connect by emulating the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) operating system (and services) on other devices? Well, either some clever Chinese hackers have figured out a means to juke what looks like BlackBerry assets onto other phones, or BAS has actually moved to Nokia (NYSE: NOK) devices, shown here on both the E71 and 5700.

As we know it, BAS only worked with Windows Mobile, so making it to Symbian would be quite a big measure in this undertaking, at least as far catching up to the devices Connect supported goes. BAS has been in the works for upwards of tierce days now, with only the odd wind that it’s still alive. There’s a fair bit of contention as to whether or not these videos ar legit, but I think it’s even ice chest if this actually isn’t a RIM-approved affair. There are plenty of good reasons to expect BAS is still kick, though.

Most corporate grunts volition take whatever phone is issued to them, but there are always a keepsake few who insist on support their personal favorite, and barring the mass consumer demand for iPhone, that usually leaves the tech-heads who North Korean won’t net ball go of an uberfunctional Windows Mobile River or Symbian devices. To be carnival, there are bounce to be sectors with particular solutions that ar only available on WinMo or S60, and necessitate largish non-BlackBerry deployments. End-users aside, BAS does rich person appeal to mobile administrators who wish to be able to controller non-BlackBerry devices too, however few there whitethorn be in their specific rollout, and application the Symbian pedestal would be a pretty big function of BAS meeting that requirement.

[via Unwired View]

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