ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF BLACKBERRY

ORIGIN

BlackBerry is a line of smartphone devices developed and designed by Research In Motion (RIM). The first BlackBerry smartphone was released in 1999. BlackBerry; the name decided after a founding member noted that the tiny keys on RIM's device resembled a group of seeds. so the company decided a variety of seeded fruits and vegetables before ultimately deciding on "BLACKBERRY" since RIM's devices were largely colored black at that time. BlackBerry devices are smartphones, which are designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, cameras and much more. They are primarily known for their ability to send and receive (push) email and instant messages(pinging) while maintaining a high level of security through on-device message encryption. 

HISTORY

The first BlackBerry device, the 850, was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager in Munich, Germany. The reason for the monumental growth of BlackBerry is explainable because in 1999 it was little more than a mobile pager. It did integrate with existing enterprise email, though most consumers didn’t really have a need for a mobile email device. Cell phones in general weren’t even big in the consumer market at that point, so the need for a wireless PDA was expectedly lacking. But it did provide corporate data access, an organizer, calendar, paging, and wireless Internet, so it was of great use to businesses who wanted a more mobile workforce. After the launch 1999, in November 2004 RIM announced that there were over 2 million subscribers worldwide, it rose to 5 million in 2005 after 9 months it rose to 14 million subscribers and as of October 2011, there were seventy million subscribers worldwide to BlackBerry which has now risen enormously to over a hundred million subscribers in 2012. BlackBerry devices support a large variety of instant messaging features, with the most popular being the unique BlackBerry Messenger  service. BlackBerry accounts for 7.2% of mobile device sales worldwide in 2012, making its manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) the fourth most popular device maker (25% of mobile device sales are smartphones) after the likes of the top: 

1.       South Korea Samsung 25.4%

2.       Finland Nokia 22.5%

3.       Canada BlackBerry 20.2%

4.       United State Apple Inc 9.5%

5.       United State Motorola 6%

6.       South Korea LG 5.2%

 

The consumer BlackBerry Internet Service is available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies.

WHAT IS BLUETOOTH ?

The bluetooth named after Harald I Bluetooth, the 10th-century Danish king who unified Denmark and Norway, is a technological innovation used to allow short-range wireless communication between electronic devices. Bluetooth was developed in the late 1990s and soon achieved massive popularity in consumer devices.

In 1998 Ericsson, the Swedish manufacturer of mobile telephones, assembled a union of computer and electronics companies to bring to the consumer market a technology they had been developing for several years that was aimed at freeing computers, mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other devices from the wires required to transfer data between them. Because the protocol would operate on radio frequencies, rather than the infrared spectrum used by traditional remote controls, such devices would not have to maintain a line of sight to communicate.

Bluetooth, was designed to enable a wide variety of devices to work together and the range of the network can be between 30 to 100 ft. Its other key features were low power usage—enabling simple battery operation—and relatively low cost.

The union, known as the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group), released the Bluetooth 1.0 specifications in 1999. The technology first appeared in mobile phones and desktop computers in 2000 and spread to printers and mobile computers (laptops) the following year. By the middle of the decade, Bluetooth headsets for mobile phones had become almost universal, and the technology was being incorporated into television sets, wristwatches, sunglasses, picture frames, and many other consumer products. Within the first 10 years of the protocol, nearly two billion Bluetooth-enabled products were shipped.

CONNECTING YOUR COMPUTER TO INTERNET WITH YOUR NOKIA PHONE AS A MODEM

In order to achieve this, you will be needing the OVI suites installed on your computer or laptop, this software can connect your pc to the internet using your phone as a modem.

Steps to connect your system to the internet using the OVI suite.

1, plug in the phone to the computer using the USB chord,

2, select ‘’ pc suite’’ when the phone asks,

3, automatically the computer will begin to install the necessary drivers needed from the mobile device,

4, open the OVI suite on your computer to verify if the phone has been connected successfully with the OVI suite, for confirmation, the picture of your mobile phone will be displayed at the bottom left of the OVI suite window,

5, after the confirmation, click on the “sync” button as indicated below and then click on “sync option” (sync – sync option)

6, select the “connect to internet” and tick the small round radio “ use manual settings ”

Fill in the desired access point of the network preferred. Below are the details you will be needing for different networks in Nigeria

MTN

Access point- web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net

Username-web

Password-web

AIRTEL

Access point- internet.ng.zain.com         

Username-wap

Password-wap

ETISALAT

Access point- etisalat

Username-wap

Password-wap

GLO

Access point- gloflat

Username-wap

Password-wap

After filling the access point and the details, LEAVE THE “additional initialization commands” BLANK and click on ok.

7, another window will pop out asking you to connect all you have to do here is click on “yes”

8, Finally when its connected, your OVI suite should look like this…..

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