RIM's line of BlackBerry devices have long been popular with the business set, but they never really caught on with general consumers for a number of reasons. For one, the devices require back end support in order to manage push email and over the air data synchronization - which adds a monthly cost above and beyond the user's regular monthly plan cost. Secondly, the BlackBerry devices have always been large in size, and incapable of even the most mundane multimedia type functions..



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