Research in Motion’s BlackBerry 7 smartphones have been approved for use by the Department of Defense. The phones include touchscreens and physical keyboards; the BlackBerry Torch 9810 device has a touchscreen and slide-out keyboard. RIM smartphones have both the FIPS 140-2 certification and the Common Criteria EAL4+ accreditation. The new smartphones were evaluated by the U.S. Army and Defense Information Systems Agency and then listed on DISA’s United Communications Approved Product List. An analyst Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates says certification is “indeed important””]
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