Who Is Research in Motion?
While most people are familiar with the BlackBerry brand of smartphones by now, many people are not quite as familiar with the company behind the brand. BlackBerry is the name of the device, but Research in Motion is the company that actually builds, markets, and supports the popular handheld. Research in Motion is a Canadian firm based out of Waterloo, Ontario and its focus from the beginning has been on the corporate market. The first BlackBerry devices, as you can probably imagine, were nowhere near as advanced as what you are able to use today. The sole purpose of early BlackBerry handhelds was to provide business professionals with the ability to check their corporate email accounts wherever they may be. This was a quantum leap ahead of the basic pagers that people were still using during that time. That was different enough, but BlackBerry brought something even more.
