BlackBerry Application Suite on the HTC Touch Pro at the Mobile World Congress

The BlackBerry Application Suite has been spotted at the 2009 Mobile World Congress. Dieter Bohn was able to get some awesome photos and information about the Application Suite running on the HTC Touch Pro.

Check out what he had to say:

In all, I was very impressed with BB Application Application Suite. It ran remarkably well — certainly better than the janky pre-release beta videos I’d seen to date. I tried to pin them down on a release date (they clammed up a bit when I said “CrackBerry.com”) and the best I could manage was “in the coming months.” One interesting note: BB Messenger does work and it does have a PIN. What RIM does is run some sort of fancy algorithm on your IMEI number and then creates the PIN off of that. So the bad news (or good news, depending your openness:security stance) is that PINs are still tied to specific pieces of hardware.

I do have to say that the BlackBerry experience is significantly hampered without a trackball — having to use the physical d-pad to click click click was a major pain. Otherwise, as I said, the thing ran relatively snappily and also didn’t seem to hamper Windows Mobile much at all. And get this: it seems to start from a cold launch in just under a minute, much faster than your average BlackBerry cold boot. :p

If you are someone who loves the BlackBerry’s OS but does not like the actual BlackBerry, this would be a good option for you once it is made available. Why someone wouldn’t like a BlackBerry is beyond me though .

Be sure to head over to CrackBerry for some more photos.