Inventory of Blackberry Classic Phones
Inventory of Blackberry Classic Phones

With the tide of full-touch mobile phones with large straight screens sweeping the world, the traditional giants that once dominated the mobile phone industry, such as Nokia, Blackberry, Ericsson, are gradually leaving our lives. Today, smart phone systems represented by iOS and Android are popular all over the world, and now all smart phone manufacturers have adopted the design of straight large touch screens without exception. Some small but still tenacious Windows Phone, Ubuntu and Firefox OS design logic also focuses on touch, and the operation mode of large screen full touch has become irreversible. In this change to reverse the traditional market rules, large and slowly transforming giants, such as Nokia and Blackberry, are lagging behind everywhere. With the recent announcement of Blackberry Company to give up its independent research and development of smart phone business, it also completely announced the farewell of Blackberry features. Today, we will take you to count the classic Blackberry models that accompanied us in those years.



In the history of Blackberry, it has launched a number of products including Blod, Curve, Pearl, Storm and other series, including straight board full keyboard, slide full keyboard, flip full keyboard, full touch and other models, which were once synonymous with security and stability. In the era when Apple and Android were not yet born, The real-time email push service BES/BIS was the most secure, stable and fast real-time email service at that time.


Once upon a time, BlackBerry was also the king of smart phones in North America, but with the rise of iOS and Android, the slow transformation of BlackBerry gradually lost most of the market, and the enterprise market was also in jeopardy. After struggling in the hardware field for many years without success, BlackBerry finally chose to abandon the BB10 operating system. After the launch of the Priv using Android, it once saw the hope of turning over. But after its high pricing and not smooth use experience again disappointed users, BlackBerry finally announced to abandon the hardware business in September this year, Later, other hardware manufacturers will be authorized to produce BlackBerry phones, and the pure BlackBerry phones will also bid farewell to us. Today, we will count several classic BlackBerry models that Chinese people have more contact with.


 

This 7290 should be the first to enter the public's view. Its broad shape, like the full QWERTY keyboard on the surface of strawberries, and good touch of keys together form the term BlackBerry. In that remote era, BlackBerry adopted a wheel type direction key design different from the four navigation keys of other brands. With BlackBerry's own system, its smoothness was quite outstanding, far superior to other brand models at the same time. 7290 adopts a 65K color semi reflective TFT screen with a resolution of 240 * 160, and has 32MB Flash Memory and 4MB SRAM.


Of course, BlackBerry not only has a full keyboard in its history, but also has launched several Pearl models with SureType keyboard in order to balance the full keyboard with the body size. It is the pride of this series to condense the 26 key physical keys into SureType keys, which not only solves the problem of too wide body size of the full keyboard model, but also improves the input efficiency compared with the T9 keyboard model, which is a quite effective compromise design. Later, there was a similar 2-in-1 keyboard design in Sony Ericsson models.


With the change of the times, BlackBerry is also slowly making progress. 83XX and 88XX are the keys to enter a new era. In this generation, BlackBerry has adopted a more flexible and easy to use trackball design. With the evolved BlackBerry 4. X system, BlackBerry has the flexibility that the four navigation keys do not have, and users can move the cursor very quickly. Among them, the BlackBerry 8310 is one of the representative models. In early American dramas, we can often see the figures of the 83XX and 88XX BlackBerry models. The 8310 uses a 2.4 inch 260000 color TFT screen. Although the 83XX no longer uses a semi reflective screen, it can still have a good display effect in the sun. In that era when the LCD screen was gray in the sun, it was unique.


 


The BlackBerry 9000 can be regarded as a milestone model in the history of BlackBerry and one of the most classic business models of BlackBerry. Its textured leather back cover and unparalleled keyboard feel make it a benchmark for smart phones. As the most classic model with BlackBerry appearance, BlackBerry 9000 frequently appears in street photos of various stars. Street photos with Bold 9000 in hand have become a fashion for a while. This milestone phone in BlackBerry history uses 624MHz Marvel Tavor PXA930 processor+128MB RAM, and is equipped with a 2.6 inch 480x320 screen. Unfortunately, it is only equipped with a 2 million camera. The pre installed system is BlackBerry OS 4.6, which greatly improves the display of Chinese fonts.


When it comes to the Bold 9000, we can't ignore the corresponding Curve 8900. As one of the most classic models in the BlackBerry Curve series, the 8900 has a historical position similar to that of the 9000. Compared with the king of the Bold9000, the 8900 is more like the choice of civilians. It has a more practical configuration without a high price. The 512MHz processor+256MB RAM+2.4-inch 480x360 screen and 3.2 million auto focus camera are more competitive than the Bold 9000 launched in the same period, except for the lack of 3G network.


 


The 9810 represents an attempt by BlackBerry to diversify. As people become more interested in touch screen phones, BlackBerry has also begun to try to make some "cross-border" models. The 9810 is one of them. The 9810 uses a 3.2 inch TFT touch screen without giving up the full keyboard. Although the interaction mode of Blackberry OS has not been fundamentally changed, it at least indicates that Blackberry is willing to make some new attempts. Although the sales of the 98XX series did not meet the expectations and did not counter the decline of BlackBerry, it is still one of the classic models in BlackBerry history.


 

In addition to the slide full keyboard, BlackBerry also comes with another form of full keyboard - 9670. As the unique flip keyboard model in the history of BlackBerry, it cannot be used by BlackBerry users. As a customized CDMA model, it can only be used by "burning cards" to write numbers. Therefore, it has no chance with most domestic users. After all, not every region supports "burning cards".


If you want to select the most classic BlackBerry model in history, the 9900 is among the top three. As the peak of the Bold series, the 9900 can be called the best all keyboard model in history, and the feel of its QWERTY keyboard can also be called the best all keyboard model in history. In addition to its classic appearance and unparalleled keyboard feel, the machine finally has a processor that can keep up with the times. It uses the Qualcomm MSM8255T with the main frequency of 1.2GHz, the RAM is increased to 768MB, the 2.8 inch touch screen with 640x480 resolution, the 5 million rear camera head, and the system is BlackBerry OS 7.


 


As time came to 2013, BlackBerry finally released the full keyboard model Q10 again, which adopted a 3.1 inch 720 × 720 screen, a dual core 1.5GHz CPU, 2G RAM, and 16G ROM, and finally kept up with the pace of "modern mobile phones" in hardware configuration. As the first full keyboard model equipped with the BB10 system, the performance of the Q10 is actually not satisfactory. Under the new system, the full keyboard is not very useful except for text input. Its screen quality is also unsatisfactory. The 1:1 square screen has a poor use experience. As a mobile phone with touch as the main control mode, the full keyboard has become cumbersome at this moment. In general, the new BB10 system has brought a stream of clean flow to BlackBerry users, but it makes BlackBerry appear so "BlackBerry".


 

As the most powerful BlackBerry model ever configured, Passport has a 4.5-inch 1440 × 1440 display screen with a ppi of 453 and a brightness of up to 894 nits. It can also have a good display effect in strong outdoor light. Snapdragon 801+3G RAM configuration also keeps up with the mainstream configuration of the same era.


Although the Android system is used, Priv has enough blood to become a legacy of BlackBerry. After all, this is the last non branded phone of BlackBerry. As a huge traditional company, after several years of frustration and almost losing market share, BlackBerry finally got up the courage to abandon its own BB10 system. However, when the overall market share has been determined, Priv has not reversed the fate of BlackBerry. As the last work of BlackBerry, Priv uses the same Snapdragon 808 processor as the Nexus 5X, The slide cover design has been adopted, which retains the full keyboard that BlackBerry users dream of. Unfortunately, its built-in BlackBerry framework requires global encryption, which also affects the overall running speed of the system.

In the following story, we may have some understanding. After several struggles, this huge company with slow transformation was gradually abandoned by the times. The BB10 system without ecosystem support and the Android model that came too late were not popular with fans. Despite various efforts, it was still unable to recover the defeat of BlackBerry in the smartphone era. Although there will be no pure "Blackberry" gene in the future smartphone market (there will still be branded Blackberry, such as TCL), the speed, rapidity and efficiency that Blackberry has brought us will remain in the hearts of every Blackberry fan forever.



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