Somehow and for the success in recent months seem to BlackBerry is a relatively recent development, however these devices have been in business since 1999.
A BlackBerry as we know it is a portable device that supports wireless email, mobile phones, SMS, web browsing and other wireless information services. Its creators are the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM), and to convey information based on wireless data networks of mobile phone companies.
If we were to talk about the real popularity of the devices, BlackBerry , we would focus on the present century, and particularly since 2004, in November this year, Research In Motion announced that it had more than two million users worldwide (early years had a million). It took five years to get the first million, and only 10 months to have twice as many users. Obviously the system was becoming a success.
In May 2005, less than a year later, BlackBerry had 5 million users, the growth rate was increasing, which has been confirmed and exceeded during the past two years, in which RIM has added another 9 million subscribers. BlackBerry currently has around 14 million subscribers.
The first model of the family was the 850 , which was actually what we refer to here as a pager. We were in 1999, the AOL Internet era and was just deployed mobile telephony, but the need for a workforce less dependent on a permanent post was that this device will begin to make sense, offered an organizer, calendar, e BlackBerry, and wireless Internet (WAP).
As a curiosity the device only had two batteries, and in 2005, PC World chose it as the gadget # 14 of the last 50 years.
These models are now looking more to what we know today as BlackBerry. The screen increases going from 6-8 lines to 16-20, includes rechargeable lithium battery, doubling the internal memory of 4 MB to 8 MB ??flash and 512 KB of SRAM to a full megabyte. It seems that with these models RIM found her working model for the future.
His models were next update 5790/5810 . First BlackBerry with Java support, were not particularly successful, but we must emphasize that the 5810 was already integrated telephone.
Devices in a country GSM CDMA
RIM’s global success, although the company is Canadian, began in the U.S., and was from 5000 and 6000 series models, initially prepared for GSM, when RIM started making CDMA versions of its terminals . The 6750 was the first prepared for Verizon Wireless CDMA.
CDMA versions of the series continued in 7200 (with color display) with 7250 (in the picture below). It was also the first BlackBerry model with Bluetooth. At this point, the devices were made ??to the two networks, GSM and CDMA, the nomenclature used in recent XX50 to be differentiated.
The 7270 were the first company wifi devices and 7500 had support for Motorola’s iDEN network, highlighting the 7520 with integrated GPS.
Appears SureType
If anything distinguishes the BlackBerry is its full QWERTY keyboard, however, some people find these terminals a bit bulky, so they decided to create SureType , a keyboard with two letters per key (reducing the size of the unit) . The first model with this performance characteristic was the 7100t , offered for sale by T-Mobile in late 2004. From 7100t CDMA and iDEN versions emerged.
SureType finished off in 2006 with the launch of the BlackBerry Pearl . The breakthrough that accompanied the Pearl was a trackball. The Perl was small enough to start this experiment, since it is possible to operate the trackball while holding the device in one hand.
The original Pearl was designed for GSM, but in late 2007, gave the Pearl 8130 supports CDMA networks. Soon after, models have emerged as the 8110 with GPS, or the 8120 with Wi-Fi.
The 8000 family
before the success of the Pearl, and when the world was filled with Smartphones, BlackBerry hit the market with another series, 8700 . Sleek devices that were announced in November 2005, and helped RIM to reach the figure of 5 million users in March 2006.
There are three models in the series 8700 , a GSM network with EDGE, one for GSM networks without EDGE (UMTS in the United Kingdom, Italy, Hong Kong and Singapore, W-CDMA in Japan), and one for CDMA EVDO networks.
On February 12, 2007, was presented the series 8800 . This is the first BlackBerry conventional trackball, CDMA version would be called 8830, and 8820 for GSM networks, which was added WiFi.
And finally, Curve
Although the 8700 and 8800 are very complete devices had some shortcomings from competition, such as the lack of camera, the idea was not to include RIM cameras, because from the professional point of view was not well seen , you might consider an item to the BlackBerry uncomfortable in certain circumstances. On second thought, in May 2007, RIM decided to market a model with 2 Mega pixel camera, the Curve , in September of that year, T-Mobile added a variant with WiFi, the 8320, and also a version that works CDMA networks.
The 9000 series and beyond
with the 8000 series grew older, it seems high time that RIM teach something new, and is speculated to be in August this year when we have new model. There have been patents with slide out keyboards or touch screens, and sure some of these options will be attending the 9000 series.
The line for RIM dividide general consumers who need a business tool is becoming increasingly blurred, so that the next model certainly will not forget any. We look forward to the next chapter in the history of BlackBerry.
RIM and Academy Award Academy Awards
As anecdotal detail comment that RIM won the technical progress in 1999 in the Oscars, the award was involved Mihal Lazaridis, president and CEO of the company.
Conclusion
I guess the most knowledgeable in areas lacking BlackBerry know that many models in this list, but somehow I wanted to comment on a timeline leading models of global shape, I hope at least that has served to recall information, or have learned more about the BlackBerry.