Company RIM is planning a new software application suite that will let users with smartphones to convert their Windows Mobile based devices in to virtual Blackberries. According to RIM the software will be launched this fall and it will include including support for BlackBerry email, phone, calendar, address book, tasks, memos, browser, instant messaging and other applications developed for the BlackBerry platform. Also devices running the BlackBerry application suite will be able to connect to BlackBerry services via BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well as BlackBerry Internet Service. “We’re working very closely with AT&T, as an example,” RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie said in an interview. “There’ll be other carriers that are highly supportive of this.”

Also, according to David Heit, director of product management at RIM, the company plans to offer the same capability to users of other mobile operating systems, such as Symbian and Palm, in the future. The new BlackBerry application suite will complement existing Windows Mobile 6 functionality and will appear as an icon on the screen in the same manner as other third-party applications. Upon clicking the BlackBerry icon, a suite of BlackBerry applications will load and will feature the familiar user interface of a BlackBerry smartphone. The device’s existing Windows Mobile applications are preserved, allowing the user to easily and quickly switch between the Windows Mobile applications and the BlackBerry application suite. This is not the first time when RIM tries to sell its software to other manufactures. RIM has a program, called BlackBerry Connect, which is offering access to it wireless e-mail services on devices manufactured by Nokia Corp. and Palm Inc. I’m not sure why, but I haven’t seen many of these devices here in Europe, BlackBerries seem to be popular mostly in the United States for some reason.