Blackberry film - the story of the first-ever smartphone

I'm always amused by the range of options that Emirates offers us in its ICE entertainment system, this time flying from Dubai to Dublin, I reached the best of 2023 category, and there was a film that caught my attention not because of its beautiful theatrical poster , but only by the name "Blackberry". How could my curiosity not be taken by this name that was successful for much of my adolescence, after all, what happened to the Canadian company that launched the first smartphone?

A film about the brand that was once the most desired by all executives in the first decade of the 2000s? Where did things start to go wrong? I needed to know, and I obviously don't regret my decision.

"BlackBerry" is a 2023 Canadian biographical comedy-drama film directed by Matt Johnson, based on the book "Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry" by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. The film tells the story of the creation of the BlackBerry line of mobile phones by co-founders Douglas Fregin and investor Jim Balsillie, and stars Jay Baruchel as Mike Lazaridis, Glenn Howerton as Jim Balsillie, and Matt Johnson as Douglas Fregin. The film was released on May 12, 2023, and has a runtime of 121 minutes.

Curiosities about Blackberry

Here are some curiosities about BlackBerry smartphones:

• BlackBerry was the first company to launch a smartphone, which had the feature to access the internet and send email anywhere;
• BlackBerry phones were known for their security features, and the company still provides support for their existing devices;
• The company's stock price also experienced a significant decline, falling from highs of $147 to around $3.69 as of March 2023
• BlackBerry's global user base declined dramatically due to the rise of competitors such as Apple's iOS and Google's Android platform, dropping to 46 million users in September 2014, and its market share globally had also declined to less than 1 percent;
• BlackBerry once owned over 50% of the US and 20% of the global smartphone market and sold over 50 million devices a year at its peak;
• The BlackBerry Priv was the first BlackBerry phone to use the Android operating system;
• BlackBerry is no longer manufacturing smartphones and is now a software company focused on providing enabling technologies for crsecurity, encrypted communication, and other connected systems and devices