Blackberry faces more competition.

Did you ever think that a startup would try to take on Blackberry AND Microsoft at the same time? Nor me. But  a US start-up is planning to do just that.

Blue Whale Systems, founded in 2007 by a team of engineers from companies including Microsoft, Nokia, Research In Motion, Symbian, Vodafone and T-Mobile, has created BlueWhaleMail. The service initially be made available for the current range of Sony Ericsson feature phones. The application is currently being developed for other devices such as Samsung and Windows Mobile devices, but has not announced details of availability.

The application is installed on a users mobile phone and needs to be configured with their specific email addresses. According to BlueWhale, this is a simple process.

The service is free to use as BlueWhale will generate revenue froms ads at the top of the message viewer.

In addition, BlueWhaleMail allows you to connect to your Facebook account, check news updates and respond to/post responses.The BlueWhaleMail service also allows users to access their Yahoo Mail and GMail accounts. Unfortunately, Hotmail is not yet supported.

Future enhancements planned include extending into other social networks support for protocols such as instant messaging and RSS feeds.

A pretty interesting piece of news. I wonder how Blackberry will counter this.

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