WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. says it plans to offer a BlackBerry reference design program that will allow manufacturers to use a hardware and software platform to build advanced wireless phones and other handheld devices.
Analog Devices Inc. plans to provide manufacturers “an integrated processor that supports both wireless communications and Java applications on a single chip.”
This decision, which will be based on embedded BlackBerry and Java technologies, may put the company on a collision course with Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp., which also have made similar announcements.
