The BlackBerry is a line of wireless handheld devices and services designed and marketed by BlackBerry Limited, formerly known as Research In Motion Limited (RIM).[2] The first BlackBerry device, an email pager, was released in 1999.[3] The most recent BlackBerry devices are the Z30, Z10, Q10 and Q5. The Z10 and Q10 were announced on January 30, 2013, and the Q5 was announced on May 14, 2013. The user interface varies by model; most had featured a physical QWERTY keyboard, while newer generations have relied on a multi-touch screen and virtual keyboard.
BlackBerry devices can shoot video, take photos and play music; these devices also provide essentials such as web-browsing, email messaging, instant messaging, and the proprietary BlackBerry Messenger.
BlackBerry accounts for 3% of mobile device sales worldwide in 2011, making its manufacturer the sixth most popular device maker (25% of mobile device sales are smartphones).[4] The consumer BlackBerry Internet Service is available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies.[5] As of September 2012, there were eighty million subscribers worldwide to BlackBerry.[6][7] In 2011 the Caribbean and Latin America had the highest penetrations of BlackBerry smartphones worldwide, with up to about 45 percent in the region having a BlackBerry device.[8] BlackBerry was widely referred to as "CrackBerry" in the United States, which alluded to its excessive use by its owners and is a reference to the addictiveness of crack cocaine. Use of the term "CrackBerry" became so widespread that in November 2006 Webster's New World College Dictionary named "crackberry" the "New Word of the Year."
The first BlackBerry device, the 850, was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager in Munich, Germany.[3] The name BlackBerry was coined by the marketing company Lexicon Branding. The name was chosen due to the resemblance of the keyboard's buttons to that of the drupelets that compose the blackberry fruit.[10]
The original BlackBerry devices, the RIM 850 and 857, used the DataTAC network. In 2003, the more commonly known convergent smartphone BlackBerry was released, which supports push email, mobile telephone, text messaging, Internet faxing, Web browsing and other wireless information services.[11]
BlackBerry gained marketshare in the mobile industry by concentrating on email. BlackBerry began to offer email service on non-BlackBerry devices, such as the Palm Treo, through the proprietary BlackBerry Connect software.
BlackBerry 10 devices: Latest Models
BlackBerry PIN is an eight character hexadecimal identification number assigned to each BlackBerry device. PINs cannot be changed manually on the device (though BlackBerry technicians are able to reset or update a PIN server-side), and are locked to each specific BlackBerry. BlackBerry devices can message each other using the PIN directly or by using the BlackBerry Messenger application.
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BlackBerry accounts for 3% of mobile device sales worldwide in 2011, making its manufacturer the sixth most popular device maker (25% of mobile device sales are smartphones).[4] The consumer BlackBerry Internet Service is available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies.[5] As of September 2012, there were eighty million subscribers worldwide to BlackBerry.[6][7] In 2011 the Caribbean and Latin America had the highest penetrations of BlackBerry smartphones worldwide, with up to about 45 percent in the region having a BlackBerry device.[8] BlackBerry was widely referred to as "CrackBerry" in the United States, which alluded to its excessive use by its owners and is a reference to the addictiveness of crack cocaine. Use of the term "CrackBerry" became so widespread that in November 2006 Webster's New World College Dictionary named "crackberry" the "New Word of the Year."
The first BlackBerry device, the 850, was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager in Munich, Germany.[3] The name BlackBerry was coined by the marketing company Lexicon Branding. The name was chosen due to the resemblance of the keyboard's buttons to that of the drupelets that compose the blackberry fruit.[10]
The original BlackBerry devices, the RIM 850 and 857, used the DataTAC network. In 2003, the more commonly known convergent smartphone BlackBerry was released, which supports push email, mobile telephone, text messaging, Internet faxing, Web browsing and other wireless information services.[11]
BlackBerry gained marketshare in the mobile industry by concentrating on email. BlackBerry began to offer email service on non-BlackBerry devices, such as the Palm Treo, through the proprietary BlackBerry Connect software.
BlackBerry 10 devices: Latest Models
- BlackBerry Z30 : BlackBerry Z30
- BlackBerry Q10 (2013): BlackBerry Q10
- BlackBerry Q5 (2013): BlackBerry Q5
- BlackBerry Z10 (2013): BlackBerry Z10
- BlackBerry Z30 (2013)
- BlackBerry Porsche Design (2013): BlackBerry Porsche Design P'9982[48]
- BlackBerry Bold series (2011): BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930/9790
- BlackBerry 9720 (2013)[49]
- BlackBerry Porsche Design (2012): BlackBerry Porsche Design P'9981
- BlackBerry Torch series (2011): BlackBerry Torch 9810
- BlackBerry Torch series (2011): BlackBerry Torch 9850/9860
- BlackBerry Curve series (2011): BlackBerry 9350/9360/9370/9380
- BlackBerry Curve 9320/9220 (2012)
- BlackBerry Torch series (2010): BlackBerry Torch 9800
- BlackBerry Curve series (2010): BlackBerry Curve 9300/9330
- BlackBerry Style 9670 (2010)
- BlackBerry Pearl series (2010): BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100/9105
- BlackBerry Bold series (2010–2011): BlackBerry Bold 9780/9788
- BlackBerry Bold series (2008–2010): BlackBerry Bold 9000/9700/9650
- BlackBerry Tour series (2009): BlackBerry Tour (9630)
- BlackBerry Storm series (2009): BlackBerry Storm 2 (9520/9550)
- BlackBerry Storm series (2008): BlackBerry Storm (9500/9530)
- BlackBerry Curve series (2009–2010): BlackBerry Curve 8900 (8900/8910/8980)
- BlackBerry Curve series (2009): BlackBerry Curve 8520/8530
- BlackBerry 8800 series (2007): BlackBerry 8800/8820/8830
- BlackBerry Pearl series (2006): BlackBerry Pearl 8100/8110/8120/8130
- BlackBerry Pearl Flip series (2008): BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220/8230
- BlackBerry Curve series (2007): BlackBerry Curve 8300 (8300/8310/8320/8330/8350i)
- Early pager models: 850, 857, 950, 957
- Monochrome Java-based series: 5000, 6000
- First color series: 7200, 7500, 7700
- First Sure Type phone series: 7100
BlackBerry PIN is an eight character hexadecimal identification number assigned to each BlackBerry device. PINs cannot be changed manually on the device (though BlackBerry technicians are able to reset or update a PIN server-side), and are locked to each specific BlackBerry. BlackBerry devices can message each other using the PIN directly or by using the BlackBerry Messenger application.
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