I remember growing up in the early 2000s and before the iPhone hit mass popularity, with the likes of the iPhone 4, RIM's Blackberry line of keyboard-clad smartphones took the world by storm. The movie BlackBerry does a good job telling the story of how a small Canadian tech startup, Research in Motion, developed a groundbreaking idea: a device that combined phone calling with mobile email, secure messaging, and a compact QWERTY keyboard designed for fast thumb typing.
The film touched on RIM's rise in the smartphone market, their successes and struggles that followed, and how they were unable to successfully respond to the rise of Apple's touchscreen iPhone. Where the film falls short, however, is in the information it chooses to leave out. For example, while it features the debut of the first BlackBerry phone, it overlooks the fact that RIM’s earliest mobile success was actually a two-way pager. Also, the film makes no mention of Android, the operating system that RIM ultimately adopted for some of its later smartphones before the BlackBerry line faded away. Overall, the movie Blackberry was a solid film about the rise and fall of the once iconic line of early smartphones known as Blackberry, with a clear direction of what points they wanted to touch on and nothing more.
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