BlackBerry 7230

For its time, the BlackBerry 7230 was a fairly advanced design--and another CNET Editors' Choice Award winner. It featured BlackBerry's signature scroll wheel on the right side, and its typically well-considered keyboard, which CNET's reviewer preferred to the competition. Even then, BlackBerry was synonymous with the Enterprise, supplying secure e-mail retrieval and support for read-only e-mail attachments. Judged by today's eyes, the candy bar QWERTY smartphone is a chunky 0.94 inch thick (most smartphones now measure 0.5 to 0.6 inch around the middle.)

Release date: Septemeber 25, 2003