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BlackBerry is one of the world’s leading smart phone and e-mail devices. It currently enjoys a 20% marketshare of mobile phone sales, but that is under pressure from Apple’s iPhone and similar phones. The BlackBerry is developed by the Canadian IT company RIM (Research In Motion). It started out life in 1999 as a pager but quickly developed into a more communicative tool that exploited Internet capabilities. It soon grew to be the number one choice for business people in the USA. Barack Obama famously was rarely unattachedto his device during the 2008 presidential campaign. Today, more than 40 million Blackberries a year are shipped worldwide. The addictive nature of the device means it has picked up the nickname “CrackBerry”, aterm borrowed from “crack” cocaine.
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黑莓是世界知名的智能手机品牌，并拥有推动式电子邮箱功能。黑莓拥有全球20%的销售额，但是苹果等其他手机品牌给黑莓造成了不小的压力。黑莓是由加拿大通信公司Research In Motion出品。1999年，黑莓成立，开始时黑莓生产的是寻呼机，之后成为了一款通讯工具，并利用了互联网平台。之后黑成为了美国商人的不二选择。奥巴马在2008年的总统竞选中总是与黑莓手机形影不离。如今，黑莓手机全球一年的销售量就超过了4000万台。这款手机非常吸引顾客的目光，它也被人们叫作“黑莓族”，这一单词是源自可卡因中的“强”。
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