RIM BLACKBERRY 850

RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES 1999

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Now yer talking. This one had a proper keyboard, unlike your newfangled phones. 

Yes – and that was a big deal at the time. The BlackBerry 850 was tiny, yet had all the keys you needed to rapidly smash out messages – even if you did sometimes wish you could file your fingers down to points. Still, that was better than mashing numbers on a Nokia until it revealed the right letter, or braving its terrifying autocorrect system. In fact, the 850 even excelled there: you could quickly craft custom entries, for example to expand ‘mon’ to ‘Monday’.