In These Countries, BlackBerry Is Still King—Of Pop Culture

Apple's iPhone may be the first choice of the smartphone smart set in much of the developed world. But the status symbol and pop-culture icon of choice from Johannesburg to Jakarta remains the BlackBerry, whose cheap and dependable BBM still reigns in many emerging economies. The BlackBerry phenomenon is blazing across the developing world at a time when the brand has long fizzled in much of the developed world.