BlackBerry Phone — How Does it Look Today?

Dmitrii Eliuseev
15 min readJul 28, 2023

BlackBerry was a very interesting brand in the mobile phone industry. At the peak of its popularity, in 2011, a Canadian company called “Research In Motion” had 85 million smartphone users worldwide, and only several years later, those numbers drastically declined. Within only several years, the market share decreased from 43% to 6%, and the company finally canceled phone manufacturing. How was it possible, and were those phones really good? Let’s figure it out.

Before we begin, a usual note. To see how the BlackBerry phone works, I bought one on my own. A…

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Dmitrii Eliuseev

Python/IoT developer and data engineer, data science and electronics enthusiast