The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager. The more usually known smartphone BlackBerry, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services, was released in 2002. It is an case of a convergent device. Developed by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM), it delivers information over the wireless data networks of mobile phone service companies. BlackBerry first made development in the marketplace by intent on e-mail. RIM currently offers BlackBerry e-mail service to non-BlackBerry devices, such as the Palm Treo, during the BlackBerry Connect software. The original BlackBerry device had a monochrome display, but all current models contain color displays.
