Manufactured and marketed by Research in Motion, the BlackBerry is a "smart phone," a mobile communications device giving user with a mixture of services containing e-mail and telephone service with texting and Web browsing. BlackBerrys utilize wireless e-mail networks to send and receive e-mail.

Additional Features

1. New BlackBerry models have color screens, small keyboards, and a trackball or track pad for navigation. The 2009 models have touch screens. BlackBerrys also have personal digital assistants (PDA) applications for keeping a calendar, an address book, calculator, notes, alarm clock, and task lists.

History

2. The first BlackBerry introduced in 1999. The newest BlackBerry device is BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 out in 2009 for the U.S. market.

Costs

3. BlackBerry prices range from $100 to $700 based on model you buy and the types of aspects you want. You want to plan on buying a wireless carrier service to access aspects of device. Many companies give returns to pay some of prices.

Marketshare

4. As said by IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, BlackBerrys are the number one smartphone device bought in US with a 47.5 percent share of market.

"Crackberry"

5. The term "Crackberry" is utilized for BlackBerry users who think "addicted" to their "smartphones". MIT Sloan School of Management researchers examined the addictive quality of BlackBerrys in their paper "Ubiquitous Email: Individual Experiences and Organizational Consequences of BlackBerry Use," leading to discussions about addictive nature of smartphone use.