This non-phone BlackBerry was made available due to the demand for a Java-based model that could run on the Mobitex data-only network. An aberration in this list, the 5790, was released at a much later date as a niche model in 2004 after many color BlackBerry models were out. At this time, the primary market was still businesses rather than consumers. RIM began to advertise these devices as email-capable mobile phones rather than as two-way pagers. Most of these models were the first BlackBerry models that had a built-in mobile phone, were the first models that natively ran Java, and transmitted data over the normal 2G cellular network. Monochrome Java-based models (50 series) They did not support Java without the use of a Java Virtual Machine add-on. They were built for use with two 1G data-only packet switched networks: Mobitex and DataTAC.
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They provided e-mail and WAP services, with limited HTML access provided via third party software such as WolfeTech PocketGenie or GoAmerica browser. Within a year, Yankee Group was estimating that devices like the Pager were in use by fewer than 400,000 people and expected two-way wireless messaging services to attract 51 million users by 2002.
The first model, the Pager, was announced on September 18, 1996. These two-way pager models had thumb keyboards, with a thumbwheel for scrolling its monochrome text display. 2 Monochrome Java-based models (50 series).
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