On Sale from BlackBerry

Canadian company Research In Motion, or RIM, has played a pivotal role in revolutionizing wireless communication with their BlackBerry line of wireless mobile devices. The first BlackBerry introduced into the market was a two-way pager in 1999. Since then, the company has developed and manufactured numerous multitasking, business-center­ed devices. Their devices allow users mobile access to contacts, to-do lists, calendars, and so forth, all of which can be synchronized with other personal computing devices (such as PC's and laptops). BlackBerry's smartphones are the most popular among business users today. Their platform dominates over 20% of the world's smartphone sales, second to Nokia's Symbian platform. Their current line of smartphones support everything from push e-mail, internet faxing, and web browsing to text messaging, mobile calling and a host of other wireless information services. Most BlackBerry devices feature full-QWERTY keyboards and offer a host of smartphone applications (including an exclusive messaging service – BlackBerry Messenger). BlackBerry devices are optimized for business functionality (including access to Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino, among other corporate networking tools). BlackBerry's focus on e-mail and other business tools has positioned it within the top of its class among competing smartphone devices. As a result, the BlackBerry e-mail client is now available on a variety of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, HTC, Samsung and AT&T devices. Their notoriety among the current class of smartphones have earned BlackBerry devices the nickname CrackBerry, and users have coined terms such as Berry Blisters to describe their frequent use of the device.