It is a smart phone which allows mobile users to access communication and information wirelessly including email, corporate data, Instant Messaging, Internet and Intranet access, MMS & SMS and organiser. Oman Vistas spoke to Hussain Al Lawati, Department Head - Sales at Nawras to understand what Blackberry is why it is popular with corporate executives.
What are the benefits of using Blackberry from Nawras for a business or an IT professional?
There are many benefits for Nawras customers including business or IT professionals. Nawras offers great value, great service and great connection.
Great value is found with two price plans and free value added services for BES and BES+ corporate customers. Customers can enjoy great service, Nawras-style, through the dedicated helpline of 1506, together with round-the-clock BlackBerry trained helpdesk and more than 36 outlets countrywide to purchase a BlackBerry smartphone. With excellent quality network coverage nationwide and 112 Data Roaming partners in 68 countries as well as reliable mobile data access, Nawras BlackBerry customers also enjoy great connection.
What can the BlackBerry solution do?
BlackBerry® smartphones allow mobile users to access communications and information wirelessly, including:
-Email
-Corporate data
-Instant messaging
-Phone
-Internet and intranet access
-MMS and SMS
-Organizer
Users can also have some fun with the newest models of BlackBerry smartphones. Some of these devices feature camera and video recording, media player, social networking also GPS and maps
Blackberry benefits for corporate users (BES) include sending and receiving corporate emails on the go, wireless push sync for corporate emails, tasks, calendar and contacts and access to their global address book on the go. Users can also browse corporate Intranet using BlackBerry Mobile Data Service.
IT professionals will be particularly interested to note that the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution was created with corporate data security in mind. It provides security through:
-End-to-end AES or Triple DES* encryption — Helps ensure the confidentiality and integrity of wirelessly transmitted information from behind the firewall to wireless devices in the field.
-Over-the-air wireless IT policy enforcement and commands — Defines and wirelessly enforces security settings on devices, as well as imposing device lock-down or wipe data from lost or stolen devices.
-Optional S/MIME** and PGP support — Wirelessly signs and encrypts messages between senders and recipients, providing writer to reader security functionality.
-Available BlackBerry Smart Card Reader — Creates a secure, two-factor authenticated environment for granting access to BlackBerry® and PKI applications.
-FIPS 140-2 validated encryption technology — The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution meets strict U.S. government and military encryption standards.
The BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution is easy to deploy and easy to manage with management features that simplify its administration:
-Role- and group-based administration capabilities — help to reduce security and operational risks and administrative overheads by delegating permissions by role and creating administrative user groups.
-Over-the-air wireless IT policy enforcement — provides a fast, cost-effective method for supporting users and managing corporate policies remotely so users don>t have to go without their devices and IT does not have to have devices in hand to make changes.
-Track key device statistics — easily monitor third party applications loaded, IT policies applied, device models, PIN, software versions and serial numbers.
-Remote BlackBerry Enterprise Server and network management — manages the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution and network infrastructure from wireless devices with available third party applications.
Blackberry for individual users (BES) allows customers to send and receive personal emails on the go (e.g. yahoo, hotmail, Gmail etc) and can integrate with 10 pop3 email accounts. Customers are able to browse the internet using WAP browser.
What types of Blackberry handsets are presently available for sale and what are the tariffs?
Nawras currently offers the following BlackBerry handsets:
Blackberry 8100 (RO 179)
Blackberry 8110 (RO 199)
Blackberry 8310 (RO 219)
Blackberry 8820 (RO 259)
Blackberry BOLD (to be launched in November 2008)
There is a choice of subscription plans to suit different usage styles:
National Plan with 20 MB for only R.O 19 per month Global Plan with unlimited local data and free 3 MB of international roaming data for only R0.29 per month
How safe and secure is black berry for sending and receiving mails?
Blackberry use AES or Triple DES encryption when integrated with BlackBerry Enterprise Server. All data packets flowing out from a blackberry device are compressed and encrypted.
What if users don’t want to be too connected?
Users have the option to disable the data service and just use the smartphone as a GSM.
What makes Blackberry handhelds different than other products?
BlackBerry gives true push email. Whilst most of the devices in the market pull emails from the server, Blackberry handhelds remains unique as the BlackBerry server pushes the mails to the handheld meaning that the device doesn’t request anything from the server.
Any other points you would like to add?
1. BlackBerry is flexible, secure and easy to manage
2. Nawras also gives many FREE value added services such as Instant Messenger Plus,Holy Quran, Viigo RSS News Reader and Stock ticker, to all BlackBerry Enterprise Solution subscribers.
3. BlackBerry service also of fers free BlackBerry messen ger service which is a free text service between Black berry devices anywhere in the world.
4.Nawras Blackberry service offers transparent price plans with no hidden charges.
5.Unlike other data devices,Blackberry devices are more cost effective when visiting websites and downloading data, as they only download what is needed, when it is needed.
6. Nawras customers can find out more by contacting the BlackBerry helpdesk on 1506 or sending an email to nbs@nawras.om
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