The service will be available for download on a BlackBerry device sometime this spring.
After downloading Google Talk for BlackBerry, users can quickly sign in through their Gmail username and password, access their existing Google Talk contact lists, see which Google Talk Friends are online, and send and receive instant messages. Google Talk for BlackBerry is easy and intuitive to use. In other words, users will have free of charge access to two applications from Google - Google Talk and Google Local. Research in Motion and Google announced that BlackBerry handsets will be equipped for instant messaging, local search and maps from Google.