Reliance Mobile and RIM introduce the BlackBerry Tour Smartphone in India

Priced at Rs 27990, the BlackBerry Tour is available nationally from October 10, 2009

Mumbai, India October 20, 2009 – Reliance Mobile, India’s leading mobile services provider, and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, today announced the BlackBerry® Tour™ smartphone for Reliance’s CDMA customers in India. The BlackBerry Tour smartphone is a 3G-enabled smartphone offering state-of-the-art communication and multimedia capabilities with outstanding mobile performance and consummate styling. It features international roaming support to help users stay in touch whether they travel around the corner or around the world.

The BlackBerry Tour is a feature packed and high refined smartphone, and is available nationally from October 10th for Rs 27990.

With its dominant market share and high end technological capabilities on the CDMA platform, Reliance Mobile has been connecting millions of users across India. The vast reach of Reliance Mobile’s CDMA network will allow customers to access their professional and personal data on their BlackBerry Tour smartphones across the country and at fast speeds.

“Reliance Mobile has been the leader in CDMA communication technology in India since its inception. We are delighted to introduce the BlackBerry Tour smartphone on our well-established CDMA platform. The innovation and advanced technology that the BlackBerry Tour incorporates is ideal for today’s consumer who is always on the move,” said Mr. Vrajesh Shelat, Head Wireless Data Business, Reliance Mobile. “With the launch of the BlackBerry Tour smartphone, we are offering our CDMA customers an opportunity to leverage the high speed data experience on both our CDMA and GSM networks.”

“The BlackBerry Tour smartphone is a world phone in a complete sense, with sharp styling that resonates well with the suave and well-travelled consumer who wants to be connected while on the go. With multimedia functionality as well as support for email, social networking and a wide variety of other mobile applications, the BlackBerry Tour takes mobile empowerment to the next level,” said Ms. Frenny Bawa, Vice President, India, Research In Motion.

With the launch of the BlackBerry Tour, Reliance Mobile has expanded its portfolio of BlackBerry® smartphones, which include the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8330, BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8130, BlackBerry® 8703 and BlackBerry® 8830 for its CDMA network, as well as the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8900 and BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8110 for its GSM network. The company also plans to roll out the BlackBerry Tour to its GSM customers soon.

The BlackBerry Tour smartphone from Reliance Mobile features a chic black finish with chrome highlights surrounding its sleek design. It measures 112mm x 62mm x 14.2mm (L X W X D) and weighs just 130g. It includes a large, easy-to-use, full-QWERTY keyboard in addition to its large (2.44″) bright display (480 x 360 resolution at 245 ppi), which delivers the highest resolution available on a BlackBerry smartphone and displays pictures, web pages and videos with incredible clarity.

Other key features of the BlackBerry Tour smartphone include:

· 3.2 MP camera with flash, variable zoom, image stabilization, autofocus and video recording*

· Full HTML web browser, including support for streaming audio and video (RTSP)

· Advanced media player for videos, pictures and music, a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and support for the Bluetooth® Stereo Audio Profile (A2DP/AVCRP)

· 256MB Flash memory

· Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting up to 16 GB cards today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available

· Built-in GPS with support for geotagging and other location based applications and services

· BlackBerry® Media Sync, which allows customers to quickly and easily synch music from iTunes® and Windows Media Player with the smartphone**

· Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, enhanced background noise cancellation, a low-distortion speakerphone, and Bluetooth (2.0) support for hands-free headsets, car kits, stereo headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals

· Preloaded DataViz® Documents to Go® allowing users to edit Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the handset

· Easy mobile access to Facebook® and MySpace, as well as popular instant messaging services including Yahoo!® Messenger, AIM®, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger™ and BlackBerry® Messenger

· BlackBerry® Internet Service support, allowing access to up to 10 supported personal and corporate email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts

· BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support, which provides advanced security and IT administration features within IBM® Lotus® Domino®, Microsoft® Exchange and Novell® GroupWise® environments

· Removable and rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery for 5 hours of talk time and 14 days of standby time

* Video recording requires microSD card, which may be sold separately

** Certain music files may not be supported, including files that contain digital rights management technologies

About Reliance Communications

Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 64,000 crore (US$ 13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs. 13,000 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,400 crore (US$ 1.8 billion).

Reliance Communications is India’s foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of over 85 million including over 2.2 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 10 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.

Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world’s largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, directly connecting 40 countries from the East coast of the United States, to Europe, the Middle East, India, South and East Asia, through to Japan. The network seamlessly interconnects with its 190,000 route Kilometres fibre optic cables within India.

About Research In Motion (RIM)

Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data. RIM’s portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. RIM is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (NASDAQ: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.