Basics Overview of Blackberry

• The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device platform introduced in 1999
•  Developed by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM)
•  Supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services
•  BlackBerry commands a 15.4% share of smartphone sales, making it the third most popular device manufacturer after and Apple and Google .
• Works on proprietary multi-tasking operating system “Blackberry OS”.
• The OS provides support for MIDP and WAP, Hence support J2ME based Applications and WAP Applications.
• Early BlackBerry devices used Intel-80386-based processors. 
• Modern GSM-based BlackBerry handhelds incorporate an ARM 7, 9 or ARM 11 processor.