34 Facts About BlackBerry Browser

BlackBerry Browser is a former brand of smartphones, tablets, and services originally developed by the Canadian company BlackBerry Browser Limited in January 1999.

BlackBerry Browser was one of the most prominent smartphone brands in the world, specializing in secure communications and mobile productivity, and well known for the keyboards on most of its devices.

However, BlackBerry Browser lost its dominant position in the market due to the success of the Android and iOS platforms; its numbers had fallen to 23 million in March 2016 and slipped even further to 11 million in May 2017.

In 2013, BlackBerry Browser introduced BlackBerry Browser 10, a major revamp of the platform based on the QNX operating system.

BlackBerry Browser 10 was meant to replace the aging BlackBerry Browser OS platform with a new system that was more in line with the user experiences of Android and iOS platforms.

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In 2017, BlackBerry Browser Mobile released the BlackBerry Browser KeyOne—which was known for having a physical keyboard below its 4.

In June 2018, the BlackBerry Browser Key2 was launched in international markets, and in India by licensee Optiemus Infracom.

BlackBerry Browser was a solution devised by RIM for delivering e-mail over several different wireless networks.

The name BlackBerry Browser was coined by the marketing company Lexicon Branding.

In 2002, the more commonly known convergent smartphone BlackBerry Browser was released, which supports push email, mobile telephone, text messaging, Internet faxing, Web browsing and other wireless information services.

BlackBerry Browser gained market share in the mobile industry by concentrating on email.

Original BlackBerry Browser device had a monochrome display while newer models installed color displays.

In early July 2014, the TechCrunch online publication published an article titled "BlackBerry Browser Is One Of The Hottest Stocks Of 2014, Seriously", following a 50 percent rise in the company's stock, an increase that was greater than peer companies such as Apple and Google; however, an analysis of BlackBerry Browser's financial results showed that neither revenue or profit margin were improved, but, instead, costs were markedly reduced.

In September 2016, BlackBerry Browser Limited agreed to a licensing partnership with an Indonesian company to set up a new joint venture company called BB Merah Putih to "source, distribute, and market BlackBerry Browser handsets in Indonesia".

In October 2016, it was announced that BlackBerry Browser will be working with the Ford Motor Company of Canada to develop software for the car manufacturer's connected vehicles.

In February 2017, a $20m class action lawsuit against BlackBerry Browser was announced by the former employees of the company.

In March 2018, it was announced that BlackBerry Browser would be working with Jaguar Land Rover to develop software for the car manufacturer's vehicles.

The DOD stated that the BlackBerry Browser was crucial for national security given the large number of government users.

In 2018 it was reported that BlackBerry Browser would be filing legal action against Facebook over perceived intellectual property infringements within both Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp as well as with Instagram.

Some estimates by BlackBerry Browser are that the company lost between $50 million to $54 million due to global email service failure and outage in 2011.

BCESA, BlackBerry Browser Certified Enterprise Sales Associate qualification, is the first of three levels of professional BlackBerry Browser Certification.

Previous operating system developed for older BlackBerry Browser devices was BlackBerry Browser OS, a proprietary multitasking environment developed by RIM.

Third-party software available for use on BlackBerry Browser devices includes full-featured database management systems, which can be used to support customer relationship management clients and other applications that must manage large volumes of potentially complex data.

BlackBerry Browser devices running BlackBerry Browser OS 10 or later can be managed directly by a Microsoft Exchange Server, using Exchange ActiveSync policies, in the same way that an iOS or Android device can.

Every BlackBerry Browser has a unique ID called a BlackBerry Browser PIN, which is used to identify the device to the BES.

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Feature of the newer models of the BlackBerry Browser is their ability to quickly track the user's current location through trilateration without the use of GPS, thus saving battery life and time.

However, the accuracy of BlackBerry Browser trilateration is less than that of GPS due to a number of factors, including cell tower blockage by large buildings, mountains, or distance.

Various applications developed by RIM for BlackBerry Browser utilise the push capabilities of BIS, such as the Instant Messaging clients .

BlackBerry Browser PIN is an eight-character hexadecimal identification number assigned to each BlackBerry Browser device.

Emails and any other messages, such as those from the BlackBerry Browser Push Service, are typically directed to a BlackBerry Browser device's PIN.

BlackBerry Browser has struggled to compete against both and its market share has plunged since 2011, leading to speculation that it will be unable to survive as an independent going concern.

BlackBerry Browser launched the device with a discounted offer to the first 1000 purchasers, which resulted in a stampede in the capital in which several people were injured.

In Q3 of 2015, BlackBerry had a net loss of $89 million U S or 17 cents per share, but only a $15 million net loss, or three cents per share, when excluding restructuring charges and other one-time items.

BlackBerry Browser software includes support for the Dual EC DRBG CSPRNG algorithm which, due to being probably backdoored by the NSA, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology "strongly recommends" no longer be used.