List of BlackBerry products

These two-way pager models had thumb keyboards, with a thumbwheel for scrolling its monochrome text display.

[1] Within a year, Yankee Group was estimating that devices like the Inter@ctive Pager were in use by fewer than 400,000 people and expected two-way wireless messaging services to attract 51 million users by 2002.

This non-phone BlackBerry was made available due to the demand for a Java-based model that could run on the Mobitex data-only network.

Early color models, such as the 7230, typically used a dim electroluminescent backlight, leading to an initial reputation of poor image quality.

RIM expanded the market by introducing the first BlackBerry models without a discrete QWERTY keyboard, in the candybar form factor.

They developed a predictive text technology called SureType with a QWERTY-like layout, using two keys per button.

The use of a QWERTY-like layout took advantage of people's memory of the computer keyboard, since each button was roughly relative to each key.