Looking at screens is way too entertaining. It was less so when screens were smaller, less immersive and more tactile.

In retrospect I think this device was the optimal digital companion. It got whatever you needed done in terms of communication, looked snazzy, and didn’t suck people into a vortex away from really. Best of both worlds.

We need to bring something like this back.

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It was literally nicknamed crack berry so I think it did suck people in for sure

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It was addictive to check messages but once you checked them there wasn’t much else to do. iPhone is next level

I agree that’s it’s next level but there was no iPhone at the time, so at the time the crackberry was next level. Though mainly for professionals as the target market. iPhone has wider reach, was a bigger consumer audience 

I just wanted to reiterate that this was a pretty addictive and big product at the time, sort of a MySpace like precursor to Facebook.