Redberry vs. Blackberry In China -- Redberry 1, Blackberry 0

The Redberry service is now live in China with a Chinese and English language website up and running.  Its site highlights its four greatest achievements in 2005 and the only item it puts in bold is the following:

1st commercially available Uni PushMail solution in China. (Before RIMM's [sic]BlackBerry )

The actual acronym for the company that makes Blackberries is RIM, for Research in Motion.

Redberry is offering a six month free trial with the purchase of its phone and then will be charging 100 RMB (approximately $12.50) per month thereafter.  One can buy a full year's service for 1000 RMB (roughly $125).  I am not sure what Redberry charges for the phone, a Daxian CU 928, nor am I familiar with the quality of the service.  The site makes clear that the Redberry service is a push service, which means the e-mails go to the phone automatically, without having to pull them down off the internet. 

The strangest thing about Redberry's English language site is that the only article in its news section is a Business Week article (will anyone bet me that they secured permission from Business Week to post the entire article?) talking about Blackberry's IP rights should it pursue a trademark claim against Redberry. 

Redberry is now up and running and marketing its inexpensive product while Blackberry is still talking about its China plans.  At this point, anyway, we have to score it Redberry 1 and Blackberry 0.  But, it is still very early.