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The article Virtual BlackBerry for Windows Mobile Nearing Release? on Brighthand.com indicates that the technology for running multiple operating systems on mobile phones and handheld devices via virtualization is quickly approaching general availability for the public. Editor Ed Hardy reports that RIM announced this project over 2 years ago, and now recent reports indicate that the expected release will be soon.

Ed writes:

“It will be called the BlackBerry Application Suite, and it will run on some Windows Mobile 6.x Pro devices. In fact, users will have the option to have this suite basically take over their smartphone, with the BlackBerry shell launching when the device is turned on.

It’s a REAL BlackBerry

This virtual environment will have support for BlackBerry email, phone, calendar, address book, tasks, memos, browser, instant messaging, and other applications developed for the BlackBerry
platform, but not video playback.

It will be able to connect to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for synchronization.”

Check out the rest of the Brighthand.com article for more information.

Regular readers of vmetc.com will recall I have in interest in the evolution of the handheld and have posted my thoughts on this topic before.

The virtualization blogisphere exploded yesterday with the news of VMware’s plans to bring virtualization to mobile phones with the announcement of the new VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). Regular readers of VM /ETC will know I am a fan of the idea of the handheld evolving into a device that can consolidate everything from the wallet to the laptop, so I wanted to add my two cents, not only about VMware’s MVP, but about what this can mean for businesses, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and you and me.

First, here’s some information from the official VMware news article about MVP.

“What is VMware MVP?
VMware MVP is a thin layer of software that will be embedded on a mobile phone that decouples the applications and data from the underlying hardware. It will be optimized to run efficiently on low-power-consuming and memory-constrained mobile phones. The MVP is planned to enable handset vendors to bring phones to market faster and make them easier to manage.”

It should be clear that MVP diversifies VMware’s customer base with a brand new market. MVP is a product for handset manufactures. It doesn’t appear to me that I will ever have to install MVP personally, and I doubt I will have to learn how to P2V a desktop to a Blackberry, for example. In the future, when I buy a new handset MVP will already be on the device.  Alex Barrett expands on this in his post VMware MVP does not equal Windows XP on your phone.

Thinking about why VMware would aquire Trango and develop this product is where it gets interesting, Read the rest of this entry »