什么是黑莓
来自维基百科：
黑莓手机（BlackBerry），是一间加拿大手提无线通信设备品牌，于1999年创办。其特色是支援推动式电子邮件、移动电话、文字短信、互联网传真、网页浏览及其他无线资讯服务。较新的型号亦加入个人数码助理(PDA) 功能如电话簿、行事历等及话音通讯功能。大部份BlackBerry设备附设小型但完全的QWERTY键盘，方便用户输入文字。
BlackBerry品牌由Research In Motion（RIM）公司开发，透过移动电话网络提供资讯。一些大型企业提供BlackBerry予其行政人员及其他雇员使用，以便他们随时随地收发电邮。
BlackBerry亦为其他品牌的手提电话及个人数码助理推出BlackBerry Connect软件，提供推动式电子邮件服务。中国移动在2006年正式在中国大陆地区推出Blackberry业务。2007年7月在中国大陆地区引进第一款设备Blackberry 8700。
BlackBerry是RIM公司提供的一套完整的端到端的无线移动解决方案，个人和企业用户可以通过该方案，将最新的重要信息（Email，Address book，Calendar等）和重要数据（报告，报表等）适时、主动的通过无线方式推送到用户的BlackBerry专用终端上，使用户时刻得到最新的信息和资料。 这套解决方案包括硬件（BlackBerry专用终端）和软件，通常说的“黑莓手机”只是该解决方案的硬件部分
来自百度知道：
所谓“黑莓”（BlackBerry）是加拿大RIM公司推出的一种移动电子邮件系统终端，其特色是支持推动式电子邮件、手提电话、文字短信、互联网传真、网页浏览及其他无线资讯服务。
技术上来说，BlackBerry是一种采用双向寻呼模式的移动邮件系统，兼容现有的无线数据链路。它出现于1998年，RIM的品牌战略顾问认为，无线电子邮件接收器挤在一起的小小的标准英文黑色键盘，看起来像是草莓表面的一粒粒种子，就起了这么一个有趣的名字。应该说，Blackberry与桌面PC同步堪称完美，它可以自动把你Outlook邮件转寄到Blackberry中，不过在你用Blackberry发邮件时，它会自动在邮件结尾加上“此邮件由Blackberry发出”字样。
BlackBerry.nterpriseSolution是一种领先的无线解决方案,可供移动专业人员用来实现与客户、同事和业务运作所需的信息连接。这是一种经证明有效的优秀平台，它为世界各地的移动用户提供了与大量业务信息和通信的安全的无线连接。
电子邮件-BlackBerry安全无线延伸移动商业用户其的企业电子邮件帐户、即使他们在办公室外、也可轻松处理电邮、就像从没有离开办公桌。用户可以在旅途中发送、接收、归档和删除邮件、并阅读电邮附件、支持格式:如Microsoft.Word、
MicrosoftExcel、MicrosoftPowerPoint.、Adobe.PDF、Corel.WordPerfect.、HTML和ASCII)。BlackBerry解决方案的“始终在线”推入技术可以自动传递电邮、用户不需要执行任何操作就可接收通信。
*企业数据-BlackBerry利用经证明有效的、与电子邮件推入传递体系结构相同的技术、为移动商业用户提供应用程序和系统数据(如客户详细信息、定价数据、订单信息和库存更新)的立即访问。
*电话-BlackBerry无线手持设备.包括内建电话、该电话支持语音服务和呼叫等待、呼叫转移及电话会议等。要拨打或接收电话、用户就像使用其他手机一样、将手持设备贴近耳朵、或者使用额外选配的耳机、以手持设备在通话期间做记录或记下重要信息。
*个人助理-BlackBerry让用户无线访问个人助理的各种应用、并以无线同步手持设备上的PIM信息(个人信息管理)。使用BlackBerry、移动用户可全天访问最新的日历、地址簿、任务和记事簿信息。
*互联网和内联网访问-BlackBerry允许用户无线访问互联网和内联网、使他们有更多时间进行促销和提供客户服务。
*短信-BlackBerry支持SMS(短信服务)、用户能够与其他启用了短信的设备和电话通信。
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BlackBerry
Screen 320 × 240 pixels (8300/8700/8800 Series)
240 × 260 pixels (7100/8100 Series)
65,000 colors
Ringtone Polyphonic, MP3, MIDI
Memory 64 MB
Networks GSM850/900/1800/1900
GPRS/EDGE/UMTS
CDMA/1xEV-DO
Connectivity microSD, USB, Bluetooth
Physical size 50 mm × 106.7 mm × 14.5 mm
Weight 87.9 g
The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1997 as a two-way pager. The more commonly known smartphone BlackBerry, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services, was released in 2002. It is an example of a convergent device. Developed by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM), it delivers information over the wireless data networks of mobile phone service companies. BlackBerry first made headway in the marketplace by concentrating on e-mail. RIM currently offers BlackBerry e-mail service to non-BlackBerry devices, such as the Palm Treo, through the BlackBerry Connect software. The original BlackBerry device had a monochrome display, but all current models have color displays.
While including PDA applications (address book, calendar, to-do lists, etc.) as well as telephone capabilities on newer models, the BlackBerry is primarily known for its ability to send and receive e-mail wherever it can access a wireless network of certain cellular phone carriers. It has a built-in keyboard, optimized for “thumbing”, the use of only the thumbs to type. System navigation is primarily accomplished by a scroll ball in the middle of the device (older devices used a track wheel on the side). Some models (currently, those manufactured for use with iDEN networks such as Nextel and Telus) also incorporate a PTT (Push-To-Talk) feature, similar to a two-way radio. Some BlackBerry devices do not depend on mobile phone service coverage and are Wi-Fi compatible, like similar handheld devices that are on the market.
Modern BlackBerry handhelds incorporate an ARM 7 or 9 processor, while older BlackBerry 950 and 957 handhelds used Intel 80386 processors. The latest GSM BlackBerry models (8100, 8300 and 8700 series) have an Intel PXA901 312 MHz processor, 64 MB flash memory and 16 MB SDRAM. CDMA BlackBerry smartphones are based on Qualcomm MSM6×00 chipsets which also include the ARM 9-based processor and GSM 900/1800 roaming (as the case with the 8830). The devices are very popular with some businesses, where they are primarily used to provide e-mail access to roaming employees. To fully integrate the BlackBerry into a company’s systems, the installation of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is required.
On April 2, 2008, RIM announced the number of BlackBerry subscribers had passed 14 million.
Operating system
BlackBerry 7250RIM provides a proprietary multi-tasking operating system (OS) for the BlackBerry, which makes heavy use of the device’s specialized input devices, particularly the scroll wheel (1995 - 2006) or more recently the trackball (September 12th 2006 - Present). The OS provides support for MIDP 1.0 and WAP 1.2. Previous versions allowed wireless synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Server’s e-mail and calendar, as well as with Lotus Domino’s e-mail. The current OS 4 provides a subset of MIDP 2.0, and allows complete wireless activation and synchronization with Exchange’s e-mail, calendar, tasks, notes and contacts, and adds support for Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes.
Third-party developers can write software using these APIs, and proprietary BlackBerry APIs as well, but any application that makes use of certain restricted functionality must be digitally signed so that it can be associated to a developer account at RIM. This signing procedure guarantees the authorship of an application, but does not guarantee the quality or security of the code.
CPU
Early BlackBerry devices used Intel-80386-based processors. Later BlackBerry 8000 series smartphones, such as the 8700 and the Pearl, are based on the 312MHz ARM XScale ARMv5TE PXA900. An exception to this is the BlackBerry 8707 which is based on the 80MHz Qualcomm® 3250 chipset, this was due to the ARM XScale ARMv5TE PXA900 chipset not supporting 3G networks. The 80MHz Processor in the BlackBerry 8707 actually meant the device was often slower to download and render webpages over 3G than the 8700 was over EDGE networks.
Database
Data extracted from a BlackBerry to a host computer is stored in a single file in IPD format.
Supporting software
BlackBerry handhelds are integrated into an organization’s e-mail system through a software package called “BlackBerry Enterprise Server” (BES). Versions of BES are available for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise. While individual users may be able to use a wireless provider’s e-mail services without having to install BES themselves, organizations with multiple users usually run BES on their own network. Some third-party companies provide hosted BES solutions. Every BlackBerry has a unique id called BlackBerry PIN which is used to identify the device to the BES.
BES can act as a sort of e-mail relay for corporate accounts so that users always have access to their e-mail. The software monitors the user’s local “inbox”, and when a new message comes in, it picks up the message and passes it to RIM’s Network Operations Center (NOC). The messages are then relayed to the user’s wireless provider, which in turn delivers them to the user’s BlackBerry device.
This is called “push e-mail,” because all new e-mails, contacts and calendar entries are “pushed” out to the BlackBerry device automatically, as opposed to the user synchronizing the data by hand. Device storage also enables the mobile user to access all data offline in areas without wireless service. As soon as the user connects again, the BES sends the latest data.
An included feature in the newer models of the BlackBerry is the ability for it to track your current location through Trilateration. One can view the online maps on the phone and see current location denoted by a flashing dot. However, accuracy of BlackBerry trilateration is less than that of GPS due to a number of factors, including cell tower blockage by large buildings, mountains, or distance.
BES also provides handhelds with TCP/IP connectivity accessed through a component called “Mobile Data Service” (MDS). This allows for custom application development using data streams on BlackBerry devices based on the Sun Microsystems Java ME platform.
In addition, BES provides security, in the form of Triple DES or, more recently, AES encryption of all data (both e-mail and MDS traffic) that travels between the BlackBerry handheld and a BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Most providers offer flat monthly pricing for unlimited data between BlackBerry units and BES. In addition to receiving e-mail, organizations can make intranets or custom internal applications with unmetered traffic.
With more recent versions of the BlackBerry platform, the MDS is no longer a requirement for wireless data access. Beginning with OS 3.8 or 4.0, BlackBerry handhelds can access the Internet (i.e. TCP/IP access) without an MDS - previously only e-mail and WAP access was possible without a BES/MDS. The BES/MDS is still required for secure e-mail, data access, and applications that require WAP from carriers that do not allow WAP access.
Newer BlackBerry devices use the proprietary Blackberry Messenger software for sending and receiving text messages via Blackberry PIN.
Third-party software available for use on BlackBerry devices includes full-featured database management systems which can be used to support customer relationship management clients and other applications that must manage large volumes of potentially complex data.
Criticism
RIM has been criticized for not including 3G/UMTS on any models other than the 8700 series, but this will be changed with the release of the Blackberry 9000.
The current generation of BlackBerry smartphones do not have a touch screen, unlike several Windows Mobile based devices, as well as the iPhone, which do offer touch screens. However, the next generation of BlackBerry is known to have a touchscreen device, code-named BlackBerry Thunder.
Name origin
RIM settled on the name “BlackBerry” only after weeks of work by Lexicon Branding Inc., the Sausalito, California-based firm that named Intel Corp.’s Pentium microprocessor and Apple’s PowerBook. One of the naming experts at Lexicon thought the miniature buttons on RIM’s product looked “like the tiny seeds in a strawberry,” Lexicon founder David Placek says. “A linguist at the firm thought straw was too slow sounding. Someone else suggested blackberry. RIM went for it.” Previously the device was called LeapFrog, alluding to the technology leaping over the current competition, and its placeholder name during brainstorm was the PocketLink.
Nicknames
The ability to read e-mail that is received in real-time, anywhere, has made the BlackBerry devices infamously addictive, earning them the nickname “CrackBerry,” a reference to the street-drug form of cocaine known as crack. Use of the term CrackBerry became so widespread that in November 2006 Webster’s New World College Dictionary named “crackberry” the “New Word of the Year”.
Many users also refer to BlackBerrys in general simply as “berries”, spawning a litany of offshoots. For example, “berry thumb” or “berry blister” is the soreness that occurs from handling the cramped keyboard.
Models
Main article: List of BlackBerry Models
A BlackBerry Pearl 8130Early Pager Models: 850, 857, 950, 957
Monochrome Java-based Models: 5000-series and 6000-series
First Color Models: 7200-series, 7500-series and 7700-series
First SureType Phone Models: 7100-series
Modern BlackBerry Models: 8000-series including BlackBerry 8800. BlackBerry Pearl and BlackBerry Curve
Future BlackBerry Model: Bold or 9000-series, announced on May 12, 2008 that will be carried by AT&T. Later it was announced for T-Mobile as well. Blackberry KickStart, Javelin, Thunder (9500)
Phones with BlackBerry e-mail client
Several ordinary mobile phones have been released featuring the BlackBerry e-mail client which connects to BlackBerry servers. Many of these phones have full QWERTY keyboards (except the Motorola MPx220, Nokia E50, Nokia E51, Nokia E60, and Samsung t719).
Certification
BCESA (BlackBerry Certified Enterprise Sales Associate, BCESA40 in full) is a BlackBerry Certification for professional users of RIM (Research In Motion) BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices.
The Certification requires the user to pass several exams relating to the BlackBerry Device, all its functions including Desktop software and providing technical support to Customers of BlackBerry Devices.
The BCESA, BlackBerry Certified Enterprise Sales Associate qualification, is the first of three levels of professional BlackBerry Certification.
BCTA (BlackBerry Certified Technical Associate)
BlackBerry Certified Support Associate T2
Additional information on certifications can be found on the Blackberry.com website.
The BlackBerry Technical Certifications available are:
BlackBerry Certified Enterprise Server Consultant (BCESC)
BlackBerry Certified Server Support Technician (BCSST)
BlackBerry Certified Support Technician (BCST)
The BlackBerry Store
In December 2007, it was reported that the first ever BlackBerry store was opened. While it is the only BlackBerry store currently in existence, it actually is not the first. There were three prior attempts at opening BlackBerry stores in Toronto, London, and Charlotte but they eventually folded.The current location is in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The store offers BlackBerry device models from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint, the major U.S. carriers which offer the Smartphones. Employees are trained not only on the BlackBerry devices themselves, but on the regulations of each service provider.
RIM patent infringement litigation
In 2000, NTP sent notice of their wireless email patents to a number of companies and offered to license the patents to them. None of the companies took a license. NTP brought a patent infringement lawsuit against one of the companies, Research in Motion, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. This court is well known for its strict adherence to timetables and deadlines, sometimes referred to as the “rocket docket,” and is particularly efficient at trying patent cases.
During the trial, RIM tried to show that a functional wireless email system was already in the public domain at the time the NTP inventions had been made. This would have invalidated the NTP patents. The prior system was called System for Automated Messages (SAM). RIM demonstrated SAM in court and it appeared to work. But the NTP attorneys discovered that RIM was not using vintage SAM software, but a more modern version that came after NTP’s inventions were made. Therefore the judge instructed the jury to disregard the demonstration as invalid.
The jury eventually found that the NTP patents were valid, that RIM had infringed them, that the infringement had been “willful”, and that the infringement had cost NTP $33 million dollars in damages (the greater of a reasonable royalty or lost profits). The judge, James R. Spencer increased the damages to $53 million as a punitive measure because the infringement had been willful. He also instructed RIM to pay NTP’s legal fees of $4.5 million and issued an injunction ordering RIM to cease and desist infringing the patents. This would have shut down the BlackBerry systems in the US.
RIM appealed all of the findings of the court. The injunction and other remedies were stayed pending the outcome of the appeals.
In March of 2005 during the appeals process, RIM and NTP tried to negotiate a settlement of their dispute. One of the terms of the settlement was to be for $450 million. But negotiations broke down due to other issues. On June 10, 2005 the matter returned to the courts.
In early November, 2005 the US Department of Justice filed a brief requesting that RIM’s service be allowed to continue because of the large number of BlackBerry users in the US Federal Government.
In January of 2006, the US Supreme Court refused to hear RIM’s appeal of the holding of liability for patent infringement, and the matter was returned to a lower court. The previously granted injunction preventing all RIM sales in the US and use of the BlackBerry device might have been enforced by the presiding district court judge had the two parties not been able to reach a settlement.
On February 9, 2006, the US Department of Defense (DOD) filed a brief stating that an injunction shutting down the BlackBerry service while excluding government users was unworkable. The DOD also stated that the BlackBerry was crucial for national security given the large number of government users.
On February 9, 2006, RIM announced that it had developed software workarounds that would not infringe the NTP patents, and would implement those if the injunction was enforced.
On March 3, 2006, after a stern warning from Judge Spencer, RIM and NTP announced that they had settled their dispute. Under the terms of the settlement, RIM has agreed to pay NTP $612.5 million (USD) in a “full and final settlement of all claims.” In a statement, RIM said that “all terms of the agreement have been finalized and the litigation against RIM has been dismissed by a court order this afternoon. The agreement eliminates the need for any further court proceedings or decisions relating to damages or injunctive relief.” The settlement is believed low by some analysts, because of the absence of any future royalties on the technology in question.
BlackBerry PIN
BlackBerry PIN is an eight character hexadecimal unique identification number assigned to each BlackBerry device. PINs cannot be exchanged and are locked to each handset device. BlackBerrys can message each other using the PIN number directly or by using the Blackberry Messenger application.
