The first BlackBerry smartphone was introduced in 1995 and was the so-called Inter@ctive Pager (Those were the days when it was hip to have the @ symbol in your product name). Since these days a lot has happened in the mobile world and one can just wonder what the next years will bring.

It started in 1995 with the Inter@ctive Pager:

In 2002 the first BlackBerrys with built-in mobile phones where shipped and looked like this:

The first color models followed and looked like this:

Finally RIM really got into the consumer market with the BlackBerry 8700 models:

One of the best selling BlackBerry smartphones is the BlackBerry Curve 8300:

And finally in 2008 RIM released the first touch-screen BlackBerry, the BlackBerry Storm:

Predicting the Future by looking at the past

Now if we put all these models next to each other we get a really good impression how BlackBerry smartphones have developed in full-featured BlackBerry smartphones.

One question remains: What will the future bring? What do you expect from the next generation of BlackBerry smartphones? What will BlackBerry smartphones look like in 2015? Share your opinion in the comments!