In the film BlackBerry, our first glimpse of Research In Motion (RIM) looks more like Rise of the Nerds meets Animal House. The decor is equal parts AV club and computer camp. Movie posters and microchip schematics fight for space on the walls. In the middle of it all, RIM co-founder Mike Lazaridis scribbles names for a phone that will change everything.
The BlackBerry, the phone with the keyboard, ushered in our always-on, always-connected world. Today, the name is synonymous with failure. BlackBerry the movie blasts us back to the late 1990s and early 2000s when the company from Waterloo, Ont., dared to take on the telecom giants.
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