BlackBerry’s smartphone thing  happened little by little. In 1999 RIM had launched the BlackBerry 850 pager that in addition to messages managed email and calendar, but did not have a telephone function. It was introduced in 2002 by the BlackBerry 5810, but it didn’t have a speaker or headset so it needed to be used with a headset to make a call.

Finally, in 2003 came the BlackBerry 6210 which can be considered  a complete smartphone with its physical QWERTY keyboard (first six letters of the top row of keys) and the company’s classic design lines that, for a while, looked like it was going to succeed Nokia in its dominant position in the industry.  which ultimately prevented the arrival of Google and Apple in the mobile phone sector.