BlackBerry: The one time smartphone leader, its fall, and the comeback that never happened

1984 – Engineering understudies Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin help secure Research in Motion

1992 – Jim Balsillie became member of RIM

1996 – the Inter@active Pager was presented, which permits clients to send and get messages

1999 – RIM get recorded in NASDAQ  and launch the RIM 850 Wireless phone, an information essentially QWERTY gadget

2002 –The BlackBerry 5810 came out, which was the first BlackBerry phone to really make  calls – by technique for a wire head set.

2003 –  BlackBerry 7230 came in the market, with a shading showcase, made calling limits and a full web program

2006 –  discharge of the BlackBerry Pearl, which supplanted  with the a track ball for course

march 2006  – To settle a patent request RIM consents to pay $612.5 million to NTP.

2007 – The BlackBerry  launch the incredible Curve, which take BlackBerry to much higher level.

2007 June – First iPhone was in the market.

2008 May – The BlackBerry  launch bold in competition to iPhone.

2008 October – The first Android-filled telephone, the T-Mobile G1, goes on excellent

November of 2008  – the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm was demonstrated.

2009 – The online App of BlackBerry World store opens, with recognizably less applications than the confinement

2010 June – QNX Software Systems was purchased by RIM

2010 August – The BlackBerry Torch turns out, which offered a sliding touchscreen and a QWERTY console

2010 October – The first Windows telephones go lessened

2011 August – RIM discharges the BlackBerry Bold 9900, the last enormous push for BB7

2011 April – The QNX-rounded BlackBerry Playbook tablet turns out

2011 October – A three-day association unsettling impact effects BlackBerry clients.

2012 January – Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis meander down and COO Thorsten

2013 January – RIM changes its name to BlackBerry

2013 February – BlackBerry discharges the touchscreen-just BlackBerry Z10 running the new BlackBerry 10 OS

2013 June – BlackBerry discharges the keyboarded BlackBerry Q10

2013 August – BlackBerry reports it's excitement is about "conceivable exchanges,"

2013 – RIM reports that it will cut 40 percent of its staff

2013  – BlackBerry signs letter of desire to be obtained through Fairfax Financial Holdings for $4.7 billion.


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