Facts of the BlackBerry

• The first BlackBerry device, the 850, was introduced in 1999 as a 2-way pager.A recent study found that 33% of people who used wireless handheld devices (aka: the BlackBerry) showed the same signs of addiction of that of alcoholics and drug addicts.
• BlackBerry is widely referred to as "CrackBerry.
• BlackBerry commands a 14.8 percent share of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the fourth most popular platform after Nokia's Symbian OS, Google's Android, and Apple's iOS.
• The device is actually made in Canada, by Research in Motion.
• There is actually a class for people on how to use their BlackBerry and the right etiquette to use.
• President Barack Obama is obsessed with his BlackBerry.
• This handheld device is mostly used by corporate workers but is becoming more mainstream.
• In June 2010, according to RIM, they had sold up to 100 million BlackBerry worldwide.

Fast facts about digital cameras

• A digital camera takes photographs digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor.
• Steven Sasson, a Kodak engineer, developed the first digital camera prototype in 1975.
• In 1988, Fuji DS-1P became the first digital camera that captured images as a computerized file.
• In 1991, Kodak DCS-100 was the first commercially available digital camera.
• Digital cameras surpassed the sale of film cameras for the first time in 2003.
• The optical system works the same as in film cameras, typically using a lens with a variable diaphragm to focus light onto an image pickup device.
• You can easily connect the digital camera to your laptop and transfer the pictures in your hard disk.
• Digital cameras have high power requirements.

Twelve iPod facts

iPod classic

1. The iPod is a portable media player designed and marketed by Apple. Since debuting in October 23, 2001, nothing has been able to surpass it..
2. Apple’s iTunes software can be used to transfer music to the devices from computers using certain versions of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
3. The iPod is the most popular music player available today.
4. iPods have won several awards ranging from engineering excellence, to most innovative audio product, to fourth best computer product of 2006.
5. The designer of the iPod, Jonathan Ive, was voted more influential than JK Rowlings.
6. Besides earning a reputation as a respected entertainment device, the iPod has also been accepted as business devices.
7. The full range of sound for an average iPod is about 120 decibels. To put that in perspective, that’s like standing next to a jet as it takes off!