The BlackBerry Smartphone

The BlackBerry Smartphones are a line of wireless mobile devices developed by Research In Motion (RIM), a company based in Canada. With Smartphone applications (to-do lists, calendar, address book, etc.) as well as the telephone capability to work as a telephone, the BlackBerry is mostly popular thanks to its ability to send and receive emails wherever there is a wireless network provided by certain phone companies. It has a 20.8% share of the Smartphone market, just under Nokia and is usually the phone of choice for most businessmen.

In 1999 it was introduced as a two way pager, but the more commonly known version, the one that has a telephone support, instant text messaging, email functions, web browsing and internet faxing was launched in 2002. Mostly concentrating on emails, BlackBerry made its way into the Smartphone market. Some of the earlier devices used a monochrome display, while all modern versions incorporate a color LCD or TFT.

In recent history all BlackBerry devices were equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard so that email creation would be much easier. All the latest BlackBerry devices have an integrated ARM7 or 9 processor, the beefier ones also sporting RAM memory for faster application access. BlackBerry devices use a proprietary operating system that fully takes advantage of all the Smartphone functions. An instant messaging application was also developed, better known as the BBM, the BlackBerry messenger allows BlackBerry users to easily communicate. The ability to access in real time any email message creating addiction throughout users has earned the BlackBerry the nickname CrackBerry.

The first BlackBerry models used an Intel 80386 based processor, while the modern devices are equipped with an XScale 624 MHz CPU. Some devices in the 8000 series as well as the 8700 series used the 312 MHz ARM processor with the exception being the BlackBerry 8707 that had an 80 MHz Qualcomm based CPU.

Because the developed e-mail client was proven to be so popular other phone manufactures adopted the idea and joined the network. Some of the phones that had integrated email clients are the HTC Advantage X7500, the HTC TyTN, Nokia 6810, Nokia 9300, Nokia 9300i, Nokia 9500 and most of the Nokia E series phones.

Because the BlackBerry Smartphones are pretty complicated devices, RIM decided that they should create a number of certificates for the sales personal that is in charge with their product so that the end-users will be informed about the capabilities of his new gadget. There are 3 levels of certificates: the BCESA, BlackBerry Certified Enterprise Sales Associate qualification, the first level of professional support, the BCTA (BlackBerry Certified Technical Associate) and the most advanced level of competence, the BlackBerry Certified Support Associate T2. Before acquiring a certificate of competence, the user has to pass several exams and prove he has a deep understanding of all the BlackBerry functions.

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One Response to “The BlackBerry Smartphone”

1. Maria says:

   June 11, 2011 at 4:52 pm

   Not sure if Balckberry is catching up to the trend of mobile computing.