For most of their existence, Blackberry had no touch interface. One appeared in later versions as they tried to compete with Android and iPhone. One example of

For most of their existence, Blackberry had no touch interface. One appeared in later versions as they tried to compete with Android and iPhone. One example of a "mobile keyboard" shortcut was long pressing a physical key to launch a specific function. It might be hard to understand now, but Blackberry power users could be much more productive with email/texting than any phone that exists today. But they were special purpose 2-way radio (initially, pager) devices that lacked the flexibility of modern apps with full internet data access.