BlackBerry



BlackBerry is a line of mobile e-mail and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) since 1996.
BlackBerry functions as a Personal Digital Assistant with address book, calendar and to-do list capabilities. It also functions as aportable media player with support for music and video playback and camera picture and video capabilities. BlackBerry is primarily known for its ability to send and receive (push) Internet e-mail wherever mobile network service coverage is present, or through Wi-Ficonnectivity. BlackBerry is mainly a messaging phone with the largest array of messaging features in a Smartphone today. This includes auto-text, auto-correct, text prediction, support for many languages, keyboard shortcuts, text emoticons, push email, push Facebook andMyspace notifications, push Ebay notifications, push instant messaging with BlackBerry Messenger, Google Messenger, ICQ, Windows Live messenger and Yahoo Messenger; threaded text messaging and a customizable indicator light near the top right of all Blackberry devices. All notifications and conversations from applications are shown in a unified messaging application which third party applications can access also. Many of these applications would have to be running in the background of other phones to be used. BlackBerry's push gives BlackBerry devices their renowned battery life. All data on the phone is compressed through BIS. BlackBerry has about two thirds less data transfer than any other smartphone[2], while supplying the same information.
BlackBerry commands a 20.8% share of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the second most popular platform after Nokia's Symbian OS.[3][4] The consumer BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) is available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies.[5]
The first BlackBerry device was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager. In 2002, the more commonly known smartphone BlackBerry was released, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, Internet faxing, Web browsing and other wireless information services. It is an example of a convergent device.
BlackBerry first made headway in the marketplace by concentrating on e-mail. RIM currently offers BlackBerry e-mail service to non-BlackBerry devices, such as the Palm Treo, through its BlackBerry Connect software.
The original BlackBerry device had a monochrome display, but all current models have color displays. All models except for the Storm Series had a built-in QWERTY keyboard, optimized for "thumbing", the use of only the thumbs to type. The Storm 1 and Storm 2 include a SureType keypad for typing, and are the two models that are full touch-screen devices with no physical keyboard. Originally, system navigation was achieved with the use of a scroll wheel mounted on the right side of phones prior to the 8700. The trackwheel was replaced by the trackball with the introduction of the Pearl series which allowed for 4 way scrolling. The trackball was replaced by the optical trackpad with the introduction of the Curve 8500 series. Models manufactured for use with iDEN networks such as Nextel andMike) also incorporate a Push-to-Talk (PTT) feature, similar to a two-way radio.
Modern GSM-based BlackBerry handhelds incorporate an ARM 7 or 9 processor, while older BlackBerry 950 and 957 handhelds usedIntel 80386 processors. The latest GSM BlackBerry models (8100, 8300 and 8700 series) have an Intel PXA901 312 MHz processor, 64 MB flash memory and 16 MB SDRAM.[6] CDMA BlackBerry smartphones are based on Qualcomm MSM6x00 chipsets which also include the ARM 9-based processor and GSM 900/1800 roaming (as the case with the 8830 and 9500) and include up to 256MB flash memory.[7][8] The CDMA Bold 9650 is the first to have 512mb flash memory for applications. All modern BlackBerrys support up to 32gb microSD cards.

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TOP 10!

Enjoy our roundup of some of the best mobile phone stories you may have missed this week:

1. webOS 2.0 on Video.

Version 2.0 of Palm’s webOS has been treated to a leaked preview video and although it’s nowhere near as exciting as the HTC video, it’s still worth a watch! Running on an emulator, it provides a great insight into what will be coming out of Palm now that HP are on the scene.

2. Android Continues Market Share Increase.

During Q2, Android’s lead over RIM and Apple in the market share stakes increased again, up from 12% to 17%, while RIM fell from 41% to 39% and perhaps surprisingly given the recent release of the iPhone 4, Apple dropped from 25% to 23%.

3. Angry Birds Feast on BlackBerries.

The massively popular iPhone game has come to RIM’s BlackBerry OS, ensuring that no matter what phone you own, you get to fight some green pigs. It’s available for download from BlackBerry App World.

4. China Sees iPad Release.

The Apple iPad has been released in several new markets this week, with pre-orders also being taken at the amazing Beijing Apple Store in China. The other countries getting the iPad are Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. According to sources at the event in China, the first customer in-line queued for sixty hours and purchased two.

5. Windows Phone 7 Shows up in a Bing Ad.

This awful Bing advert featuring Rachel Zoe of The Rachel Zone Project – ’stop searching and start retching’ – is bearable if you turn the volume down, but is notable for using Windows Phone 7, on that Samsung prototype again, to advertise the Microsoft search engine. How long will it be before WinPho7 gets an advert all of its own?

6. Another New Nokia Appointment.

We’ve seen a new CEO and a new UX expert join Nokia recently, and now the company has announced that they have a new CTO too. Ex VP of Software at Sun Microsystems, Rich Green, will be driving the compnay’s technical strategies forward and is quoted as saying they ‘don’t need to wait for Symbian^4′ to do so, but should ‘advance Symbian^3 at an aggressive rate’ now.

7. Skyfire Reaches Download Milestone.

Alternative mobile web browser Skyfire, now available on Android and with a little luck, soon to be seen on the iPhone too, has reached one million downloads on the Google platform alone. Skyfire is well-known for its video capabilities and a similar compression technique used by Opera on Opera Mini.

8. LG Going 4G in the USA.

While not especially relevant in Europe at this stage, LG could be bringing a 4G mobile phone to the US’s Sprint network, and it could be running Windows Phone 7. Sprint is a CDMA network, which may not be seeing the new Microsoft OS until 2011.

9. It Looks Like a Phone…

But it’s not. You could use your Sony Ericsson Walkman phone, your iPhone or whatever other device you like to listen to your music, but why bother when you can use an MP3 player that looks like an old brick-style phone? Complete with huge casing, massive buttons, a radio and built-in speakers, this is the retro way to listen!

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