List of BlackBerry products

List of BlackBerry products

The following is a partial list of BlackBerry products, manufactured by Research In Motion (RIM).

Early pager models

These models are devices that were designed as 2-way pagers with a built-in thumb keyboard. These models did not support Java without the use of a JVM add-on. All of these models used early data-only packet switching networks, including Mobitex and DataTAC, and came out prior to 2001. The earliest models of these were called Inter@ctive Pager before the brand changed to BlackBerry. Limited HTML access could be provided using third party software such as WolfeTech PocketGenie or GoAmerica browser.

First SureType models (7100 series)

RIM expanded the market by introducing the first BlackBerry models without a discrete QWERTY keyboard, in the candybar form factor. They developed a predictive text technology called SureType with a QWERTY-like layout, using two keys per button. By using only two letters per button, rather than three letters per button as in T9 using ten-digit keypads, predictive text accuracy could be improved dramatically. The use of a QWERTY-like layout took advantage of people's memory of the computer keyboard, since each button was roughly relative to each key. At the same time, the size of the BlackBerry could be dramatically reduced, as keyboards only needed to be 5-buttons wide rather than 10-buttons wide. These BlackBerries became more popular with the mass market as they became similarly sized to competing consumer-market cellphones.

These models were among the first BlackBerry models to be aggressively marketed to consumers, rather than to businesses. RIM continued to manufacture QWERTY models, to give the market a choice between the traditional QWERTY thumb keyboard, and the compressed SureType keyboard.

Other references

* [http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/ Current BlackBerry Devices]
* [http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/archived/ Past BlackBerry Devices]


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