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This article is about the wireless e-mail device. For the fruit, see blackberry. For other meanings, see blackberry (disambiguation). BlackBerry 7100t, offered by T-Mobile. The 7100g offered by Cingular Wireless is almost identicalThe BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. [Continua. It was developed by Research In Motion (RIM) and delivers information over the wireless data networks of cellular telephone companies. BlackBerry made headway in the marketplace by first concentrating on e-mail. RIM currently offers BlackBerry e-mail service to non-BlackBerry devices, such as Palm Treo, through BlackBerry Connect software.
Research In Motion was involved in a patent dispute with NTP, Inc. , which could have potentially forced RIM to suspend service to most BlackBerry users in the United States. In the United States, RIM's e-mail. The dispute was settled out-of-court in March 2006. See NTP, Inc.
Hardware
(1) Trackwheel, (2) Escape key and (3) radio/phone speaker on the BlackBerry 7510The devices are manufactured by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) in Waterloo, Ontario, and are resold by cellular phone companies throughout the world. They fit in the palm of the hand and are operated using a trackwheel and buttons.