Blackberry dummies 2 Manual page 31

Know your BlackBerry history
Your BlackBerry Storm is truly wondrous,
boasting many features beyond your ordinary
mobile phone. And its "sudden" popularity
didn't happen overnight. Like any other good
product, BlackBerry Storm has come a long
way from its (relatively humble) beginnings.
In the days when the Palm Pilot ruled the PDA
world, Research In Motion (RIM, the maker of
the BlackBerry) was busy in its lab, ignoring the
then-popular graffiti input method and design-
ing a device with a QWERTY keyboard — the
kind of keyboard people were used to from
working on their computers. RIM didn't stop
there, however. It added an always-connected
e-mail capability, making this device a must-
have among government officials as well as
finance and health professionals.
Web servers
Figure 1-1:
Your e-mail
travels
to your
BlackBerry
through
service E-mail servers
(personal and
providers.
Enterprise)
Chapter 1: Your BlackBerry Is Not an Edible Fruit
To meet the needs of government officials
and industry professionals, RIM made reliabil-
ity, security, and durability the priorities when
manufacturing its devices. Today, BlackBerry
Storm comes from the same line of RIM family
products, inheriting all the good genes while
boosting usability and adding more functions
to its core BlackBerry applications. As a result,
BlackBerry is popular among not only prosum-
ers (professional customers), but also con-
sumers. Starting with BlackBerry Pearl, RIM
has been targeting the mainstream consumer
market. Clearly, with BlackBerry Storm, RIM is
winning the hearts of consumers while main-
taining its hold on the enterprise market.
BlackBerry
Internet
Service
Wireless
network
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