blackberry

Blackberry refers to a wireless handheld e-mail solution terminal device launched by Canada's Reserach In Motion (RIM for short).

Because it uses the standard QWERTY English keyboard, it looks like the seeds on the surface of strawberries, so it is named "Blackberry"; At the same time, in later products, the device also added the function of mobile phone, so it is generally called "Blackberry" in China.

However, the commonly known BlackBerry [1] not only refers to a mobile phone, but also refers to the Push Mail real-time e-mail service launched by Research in Motion, including server (mail setting), software (operation interface) and terminal (mobile phone).

BlackBerry mail equipment is based on two-way paging technology. Combined with RIM's server, the device relies on specific server software and terminals, and is compatible with existing wireless data links, thus realizing the dream of sending and receiving mail from all over North America anytime and anywhere. This device does not catch people's eyes and ears with wonderful pictures and color screens, and even has no sound generator. After the "9 1 1" incident, there was a craze for owning blackberry terminals in the United States because the blackberry delivered the information of the disaster site in time.

The most important principle of Blackberry's success is to provide an integrated solution for enterprise mobile office for senior white-collar workers and business people. Enterprises have a lot of information that needs to be processed immediately, and they also need a wireless and movable office equipment when traveling. As long as the enterprise installs a mobile gateway, a software system, and uses the mobile phone platform to realize wireless links, employees can use their mobile phones to work anytime and anywhere. Its greatest convenience is that it provides the push function of mail: that is, the mail server actively pushes the received mail to the user's handheld device, and users do not need to frequently connect to the network to view it.

Since 1984 established RIM, the early products are RIM 850/950 and RIM 857/957. Their appearance is very similar to the familiar pagers, but they are bigger, have more buttons and have the function of sending and receiving emails.

After that, the products of 5790/58 10 and 62 10/6280 are not much different from the current blackberry products in appearance, except that they are equipped with monochrome screens, 16M memory and do not have the call function.

6230 should be an epoch-making product in BlackBerry. Since 6230, BlackBerry has officially supported the calling function and become a real "mobile phone". Contemporary with 6230, there are 65 10/6750/67 10 and other models.

Then there are the 7230/7290 and 7 100/7 130/8700 series which are popular in China. This generation of products are generally equipped with color screens, and 7 130 and 8700 series also provide support for chord ringtones and MP3 ringtones. This also marks RIM's determination to turn the BlackBerry series into a mobile phone with more entertainment functions-this development direction.

So, on the latest BlackBerry 8 100/8800/8830 and the latest 8300, we have seen a series of gorgeous functions that BlackBerry has never had before: memory card support, 2 megapixel camera, flash, MP3, video playback and a series of multimedia functions that attract users.

Three stages of blackberry development

From the appearance, "Blackberry" product is more like a business communication or PDA with call function than a mobile phone. With push mail technology, users will be able to exchange emails with computers at any time.

In fact, it was not RIM's idea to link email with mobile phones. The earliest association between mobile phones and Intenet should be around 2000, when ICQ also supported sending free short messages to mobile phones through ICQ. Then, they applied for a free email, which supports sending the email arrival information to the user's mobile phone after receiving the email for free. This stage should be the second stage in the industry.

In the first stage, users log on the Internet to browse, view and receive the sent mail;

In the second stage, users can receive "Internet mail arrival notice" through SMS;

In the third stage, users directly receive, read and process emails from internet mailboxes through mobile phones.

[Edit this paragraph] Enter China.

Blackberry has not been sold in China before, until early 2005, some domestic mobile phone players began to boldly "taste" the blackberry.

Soon, with word of mouth, BlackBerry has attracted a large number of mobile phone players who are pursuing individuality and fashion by virtue of its unique appearance and low price.

At the same time, several well-known digital forums in China, HIPDA and HIBALM, have also set up special zones in BlackBerrys, making BlackBerrys popular all over the country in less than a year. As a result, domestic merchants began to introduce foreign BlackBerry into the domestic market through illegal means-we call it "parallel imports".

By the end of 2006, the BlackBerry business had entered China. RIM and China Mobile have reached a cooperation agreement, and it won't be long before we can buy regular RIM licensed BlackBerry in China.

At the same time, China Mobile has also launched the BlackBerry mail service, but at present it only provides the following two packages for group customers: Package 1: the monthly function fee is 398 yuan, and each user gives 50 meters of GPRS traffic every month. The communication fee for the excess part is 0.0 1 yuan /KB. Package 2: The monthly function fee is 598 yuan, and each user is given 400M GPRS traffic (including 2M international GPRS roaming) every month. The communication fee after the excess is 0.0 1 yuan /KB.

It is not difficult to see through the tariff that the current BlackBerry mail service is still far behind for individual users.

[Edit this paragraph] Purchase instructions

After the popularity of blackberry in 2006, a large number of merchants were optimistic about this market. However, the supply of goods can't keep up with the demand of players for blackberries, so a large number of refurbished blackberries began to appear on the market. Parallel imports themselves are not terrible, just refurbished machines. The appearance of these machines basically shows that the 7230/7290/7 100T models which are popular among domestic players can't buy new machines at all.

At the same time, a large number of ordinary users who blindly follow the trend are not mobile phone players themselves. Because of their poor hands-on ability, they can't adapt to the special operating system of BlackBerry and start selling the BlackBerry they bought before. Once again set off a second-hand blackberry shopping boom in the market.

As a result, the market is full of original Blackberry parallel planes, second mobile phones, refurbished machines and other sources, so that ordinary players can't distinguish them and dare not buy them easily.

Some unscrupulous merchants on Taobao even brought some refurbished BlackBerry with very poor grades, so-called "14" to sell, and the price was once lowered to 200-500 yuan.

To sum up, it is not a good time to buy blackberries at present.

If you are confident in your hands-on ability and think that you are a mature mobile phone player and just want to play with Blackberries, then I suggest you buy a cheap refurbished machine, get familiar with the system, and then consider buying licensed products after RIM officially takes the products to China.

If you are just an ordinary user who has never used other smart phone systems, and you have a lot of phone calls, text messages, etc. In daily life, I suggest you think twice before trying a blackberry. Website/blackberry-pushmail.asp for more information, and there are many introductions on major news websites.

The future of blackberry

The most important principle of Blackberry's success is to provide an integrated solution for enterprise mobile office for senior white-collar workers and business people. Enterprises have a lot of information that needs to be processed immediately, and they also need a wireless and movable office equipment when traveling. As long as the enterprise installs a mobile gateway, a software system, and uses the mobile phone platform to realize seamless links, employees can use their mobile phones to work anytime and anywhere. Its biggest convenience is to provide the push function of mail.

Although RIM and NTP are still suing for the patent right of BlackBerry, this does not affect the rapid development of BlackBerry at all. At present, RIM and various communication manufacturers have successively developed new BlackBerry, and are ready to enter the China market, which I believe will be seen soon.

Blackberry color recognition

1, shell The shell of the new machine is tightly attached, and the gap is smooth and smooth without burr. Refurbishers generally use imitation original shell, with uneven gaps and burrs. The upper and lower parts of the mobile phone shell are easy to be closed loosely, leaving a large gap. When recognizing, you can try to insert a small nail into the gap between the upper and lower covers of the mobile phone. If it can be plugged in, it is a refurbished machine. The surface of the shell is frosted like a new machine, and the mobile phone with small particles is absolutely not to be purchased. The paint on the machine shell was sprayed by JS. After a long time, the paint will fall off (the dust particles on the shell are caused by the operation without vacuum environment when painting);

2. The shell of the new machine has a faint sandalwood smell. If it is a refurbished machine, JS generally needs to beautify the fuselage. Although the appearance is smooth, it is not dry enough. After opening the lid or taking out the battery, it smells like rubber, plastic or chemical;

3. Keyboard and data cable interface. Due to the long-term plugging and unplugging of the charger plug and data cable, there will be black scratches on the charging interface of the refurbished machine that are difficult to eliminate. Keyboard refurbished machines mostly use the keyboard on the old machine or imitate the keyboard. The * * * of this keyboard is that it feels soft and has no toughness of the new keyboard;

4. Charging test. It is best to charge for a long time, generally 10 minutes or more. Because there are many refurbished machines that will run out of power after a long charging time. This is also a very effective method to judge the refurbished machine;

5.SIM card chip contact and battery contact. Generally, these two contacts JS cannot be replaced. If it is a refurbished machine, there will be obvious friction marks on the contacts of the SIM card chip, which looks shiny, which is caused by too much friction. If it is an unused chip of a new machine, the contact surface should be frosted;

6. Fix the screws. Mainly depends on whether there are obvious scratches at the interface between the screw and the blade, and whether there are pick marks on the two rubber pads below the inner screen.

7. Call quality. Bring your own SIM card to test the machine, call a friend, preferably a fixed phone, and ask the other party how the call quality is, whether the call sound is clear, whether there is noise, current sound and volume drop suddenly;

8. price. Because the spare parts of refurbished machines are mostly early products with poor quality, the price is also low. If you encounter a mobile phone that is ridiculously low in price but is called parallel imports by merchants, you can basically conclude that it is a refurbished machine.