As far as I remember from back in '08, Obama uses a blackberry because he asked for it after winning the presidency. He used it heavily during his campaign, and

As far as I remember from back in '08, Obama uses a blackberry because he asked for it after winning the presidency. He used it heavily during his campaign, and wanted to hang on to it after getting the presidency. They had to go through some trouble to create an NSA certified version for Obama to use.