RIM launches BlackBerry Mobile Fusion

As more and more people carry the iPhone, iPad, and their Android devices to work, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion wants to make sure still have a place in the office technology environment.

That's why RIM this week launched a new experimental products that will support iPhone and Android devices, writes CNN in laporannnya recently.

The software, aimed at corporate IT departments, it is called the BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, which allows technical support staff to manage multiple mobile devices via the same interface.

That recognition of a Canadian device manufacturer cell phone market has been shifted by the popular smart phone and Apple's consumer-friendly or devices that run Google software.

"Ford popularized the car, but now we have a lot of manufacturers make a lot of nice cars," said David Heit, RIM's director of product management company.

"As long as we have individual choice, we will make individual choices, and the IOS device as well as the most popular Android right now."

Popularity of BlackBerry devices has dropped surprisingly in the last two years. At the end of 2009, the BlackBerry control 20 percent of the global smart phone market, according to IDC, and 43 percent of the U.S. market according to comScore.

Now BlackBerry retain only 10 percent of global market and 19 percent in the U.S. market.

In the same time, led by the combination of Samsung's Android devices and the HTC controlled almost 40 percent of the global market, while Apple controls 15 percent.