Blackberry: There was a smartphone before the iPhone (original) (raw)
Blackberry OS end of support
While people may look at the iPhone and Android as driving the smartphone revolution, it was Blackberry devices that showed the world how a connected device could deliver something useful to enterprise users. Way back in 2002, five years before Steve Jobs launched the iPhone, Blackberry - then called Research in Motion - began forging a path in mobile email, replacing pagers with devices like the 5000-series email-enabled smartphone, running Java.
This image shows a Blackberry running a NatWest Banking app. Blackberry users were able to use the banking app since 2011.
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