

The BlackBerry 5810 was the first smartphone by BlackBerry Ltd, which used the BlackBerry 3.6 OS (a far more advanced version than the BlackBerry 1 used in the pagers). The First color series were 7200, 7500, 7700, and after the launch of the First Sure Type phone series: 7100, BlackBerry gained marketshare in the mobile industry by concentrating on email. The 850, 857, 950, 957 were the first pager devices sold by RIM (which used DataTAC networks), and later it launched the Monochrome Java-based series: 5000, 6000 in the market.

Since then, the BlackBerry series of wireless handheld devices (25% of them are smartphones) are available worldwide.

released its first wireless device (known as RIM 850), an email pager in 1999 in Munich, Germany.
