45 Facts About BlackBerry

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

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

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

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On September 28, 2016, BlackBerry announced it would cease designing its own phones in favor of licensing to partners.

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

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

The very first device to carry the BlackBerry name was the BlackBerry 850, an email pager, released January 19, 1999.

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

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

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

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

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

On January 30, 2013, BlackBerry announced the release of the Z10 and Q10 smartphones.

Largely due to lower than expected sales on the Z10, BlackBerry announced on September 20, 2013, that 4, 500 full- and part-time positions have been terminated and its product line has been reduced from six to four models.

On November 4, 2013, BlackBerry replaced Thorsten Heins with new interim CEO John S Chen, the former CEO of Sybase.

In early July 2014, the TechCrunch online publication published an article titled "BlackBerry 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's financial results showed that neither revenue or profit margin were improved, but, instead, costs were markedly reduced.

On December 17, 2014, the BlackBerry Classic was introduced; it is meant to be more in line with the former Bold series, incorporating navigation buttons similar to the previous BlackBerry OS devices.

In September 2016, BlackBerry 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 handsets in Indonesia".

On October 25, 2016, BlackBerry released the BlackBerry DTEK60, the second device in the DTEK series, manufactured and designed by TCL.

In October 2016, it was announced that BlackBerry 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 was announced by the former employees of the company.

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

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

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On May 26, 2017, BlackBerry announced that it had reached an agreement with Qualcomm Incorporated resolving all amounts payable in connection with the interim arbitration decision announced on April 12, 2017.

In 2018 it was reported that BlackBerry 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 are that the company lost between $50 million to $54 million due to global email service failure and outage in 2011.

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

New operating system, BlackBerry 10, was released for two new BlackBerry models on January 30, 2013.

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

On January 3, 2022, BlackBerry announced that they would discontinue their services on all BlackBerry phones not running on Android on January 4.

Third-party software available for use on BlackBerry 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 devices running BlackBerry 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 has a unique ID called a BlackBerry PIN, which is used to identify the device to the BES.

Feature of the newer models of the BlackBerry 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 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 utilise the push capabilities of BIS, such as the Instant Messaging clients.

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

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

BlackBerry 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 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.

BlackBerry lost market share in Indonesia despite the launch of the Z3 on May 13, 2014.

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 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.

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