9 Iconic Handsets That Defined BlackBerry

#7 Blackberry 7210

BB 7210 featured a Java development platform and a high-resolution display, at the time, the 240x160-pixel, 65,000-color screens were considered high-resolution. It was launched in mid-2003.

The device was compact; color screen; built-in keyboard; real-time e-mail; Web browser; Java support (J2ME); compact travel charger; syncing cable; decent battery life.

With a Java platform under the bonnet and a browser on board, users could now open documents, PDFs, Excel and PowerPoint files, cementing its appeal to the business crowd, who sometimes referred to it as a 'BlueBerry' rather than BlackBerry due to its colour. Naturally, that QWERTY keyboard was still in place.

It had 16MB of storage and had 2MB of RAM and lacked speakerphone and memory-expansion slot.

The handsets contributed to a revival of faith in RIM, and over the space of three months its stock price nearly doubled from around $15 to $28.

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