Canadian Research Company called Research in motion (R/M) has developed blackberry handheld devices. Current devices of the company incorporate an ARM 9 or 7 processor.
There handheld devices are very popular among businesspersons as they are equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard and are most suitable for mass emailing purposes. The company’s 8100 Pearl and 7100 series mobiles use a technology called ‘sure type,’ that allows the user to represent multiple letters with the help of predictive T9 dictionary.
The phones’ operating system have support for MIDP 1.0 are WAP1.2 some of the highly successful models of Blackberry Phones include Blackberry pearl & 110, Blackberry curve 8300 and Blackberry 8820. All these phones have support for touch screen, Bluetooth and EDGE technologies. No wonder, Blackberry mobile phones have become a status symbol for the users.