File 001 · Category Openers
Record 035 · Electronics · 2002
02.35.EBlackBerry 5810
Research In Motion
“Push email that addicted professionals a half-decade before iPhone.”
Always on, always connected.
First BlackBerry with a phone radio (headset jack for calls). The addictive LED and thumb keyboard defined knowledge-work culture.
Filed notes
- Push email
- Physical QWERTY on a radio
- BES enterprise control
Units. BlackBerry line peaked ~50 million/year around 2011
SIC
3663
Radio & TV Communications Equipment
NAICS
334220
Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
