RE: I am skeptical, but....A few facts
That Bruce Pope confirms or denies anything is irrelevant
Bruce is a pro as are the Senior people at RIM.
You amateurs have to get better at gathering information. You sure as hell can't expect to get any useful information from a sr. exec.
When Bruce picked up the rights to use the flip up plug technology that they use in the GAMEBUDDY he showed the product to all the makers of pagers and cell phones and they loved it.
The Malaysians have a cell phone powered by RAM. Motorola has looked hard at this. BTI has done all the testing for Seimans for cordless phones, and I think that is close.
When Steve was with BTI he indicated to me that he thought most of rayovacs cells went to OEM's (original equipt makers)
My point is that an association with an outfit like RIM is almost bound to happen and soon and if not RIM then someone else.