Queen Elizabeth II, while she was visiting Canada on the 1^st, the country’s national holiday, she decided to visit Waterloo. Now, Waterloo is the residence of the country’s best rated company, RIM (Research in Motion). While she was on a visit there, she was gifted with a Unlocked white BlackBerry Bold 9700. She even stayed in the RIM assembling facilities, albeit for less than an hour.

Someone from the Royal family getting a blackberry is not unprecedented. Prince Charles picked up a Blackberry unlocked  Storm( 9520 ) handset, back in January, and Prince Andrew, apparently, is a huge fan of BlackBerry. The Queen said that she has been a great fan of the BlackBerry, ever since her son Prince Andrew introduced her to them some years ago. The BlackBerry was handed to the Queen by the company’s co-founder Mike Lazaridis. The phone gifted to her, the BlackBerry Bold 9700, is the latest model in the BlackBerry line up, and is the unit given to her was white in color. The wallpaper on the presented handset had a picture of a group of children, belonging to an area school, and they were giving the Queen flowers, in the picture.

People would think that now that the Queen has a Blackberry unlocked 9700 white phone, she has more power in her hands to know what is going on around her, however, she must first actually figure out how exactly her BlackBerry works. But then, Queen Elizabeth does not need to personally check her e-mails. She has more than enough help to know what’s in her mail every day. There is already a Twitter account for the British Monarchy, but don’t get your hopes high, because the Queen will not using Twitter anytime soon. A spokesperson from the Monarchy has made it clear that the Royal family will refrain from tweeting although the Queen has been notified about it.

Queen Elizabeth II visited Canada on the 1^st July, on a national holiday. In this recent visit to Canada the British Queen made a frisky visit to Waterloo for taking a ‘sneak peak’ at the country’s most successful company, Research in Motion. RIM has quickly made headways and taken great strides in mobile phone technology. She got for herself a White Blackberry’s Unlocked  Bold2 9700 and was quite keen on knowing the various working facilities of the institute. So much so, she decided to take a good look at the RIM assembling facilities and stayed on in there for half an hour. Though it will be a herculean task for her to come technologically on par with the modern day teens and get ‘working’ on the blackberry, Queen Elizabeth II is not the first from the British Royal Family to procure for oneself a Blackberry. Prince Charles had for himself a Unlocked Blackberry Storm 9250 back in January. It’s also well known news that Prince Andrew is also a big fan of the Blackberry models. Well this Blackberry does one thing for sure; it would definitely help to keep her abreast with her country’s affairs anytime, anywhere. The Royalty also has a twitter account but it’s highly unlikely that you find her anytime soon tweeting about her new toy.

This new acquisition of the Blackberry model sure does up the ‘ technically aware’ quotient of the Royal family whereas at the same time Blackberry is set to get some more the royal attention it gets from its loyal customers far and wide. But in these upcoming years it will be telling on the Blackberry set because of the upcoming new high tech models from the Android and Apple Iphone 4 unlocked handset  industries. Well! Only time will tell how the Blackberry fairs in this rat race.