BlackBerry is a mobile handset brand by Research in Motion. The first device from BlackBerry was an email pager introduced in 1999. It features high security with on-device message encryption. Almost all BlackBerry devices are smart phones including ability to send and receive push mail. It also provides instant message service.
The BlackBerry playbook is a tablet and the company also makes portable media players, personal digital assistants and gaming devices etc. The 3% of sales of Mobile phones worldwide has accounted by BlackBerry. The famous BlackBerry Messenger service is the most popular for sending messages and sharing pictures, videos and views etc. There are approx eighty million subscribers of the handsets around the globe as September 2012.