BlackBerry 8700

The 8700 is a wider BlackBerry keyboard and a colour screen. Mail still won. The blink of the LED was the interface.

No product photo in the catalog yet. The name is enough to place the station.

Launch year

2005. 2005 is Walkman phones, Cyber-shot cameras, PEBL stones, and iTunes on a ROKR. Music and photos fight the keypad for attention.

BlackBerry is a belt clip and a keyboard before glass. 7290, 8700, Pearl. Mail arrived with a blink. It was work, then it was identity.

This map only keeps phones from 1994 through June 2007, before the original iPhone went on sale in the United States.

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