BlackBerry smartphones are very popular mobile phone units. Although these are still, in essence, mobile phones, BlackBerry smartphones are able to send and receive email and instant messages between devices and still maintain a robust level of security between units.

BlackBerry Smartphones run on what can be considered its own internet service and this feature is available in 91 countries. Blackberry Internet Service has more than seventy million subscribers worldwide and the successes of BlackBerry smartphone and BlackBerry Internet Service has made Canadian company Research in Motion (RIM) the one of the most popular device manufacturers in the world. It ranks fourth, following giants such as Google, Sony Ericsson and Apple.

A GSM-based BlackBerry handheld runs on ARM 7, 9 or ARM 11 processors. Newer BlackBerry models such as the Torch series (9850/9860, 9810) and Bold series (9900/9930) are more powerful because they are equipped with a 1.2 GHz MSM8255 Snapdragon Processor, 768 MB system memory, and 8 GB of on-board storage. BlackBerry units manufactured after OS 5 has been released can microSD cards and have additional storage capacity of up to 32GB.

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