Editing BlackBerry (section)

=== Other notable users ===

As of 2024, [[Eminem]] uses a BlackBerry OS phone.<ref>{{cite web |last=Mahadevan |first=Tara |url=https://complex.com/music/a/cmplxtara-mahadevan/eminem-still-uses-a-blackberry |title=Why Eminem still uses a Blackberry in 2024 |website=Complex |access-date=February 27, 2025 |date=February 26, 2025}}</ref>

[[Kim Kardashian]] was also a BlackBerry user. In 2014, she reportedly said at the Code/Mobile conference that "BlackBerry has my heart and soul. I love it. I'll never get rid of it" and "I have anxiety that I will run out and I won't be able to have a BlackBerry. I'm afraid it will go extinct." Kardashian also admitted to keeping a supply of BlackBerry phones with her because she was loyal to the [[BlackBerry Bold]] model. She has since been spotted using an iPhone instead.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Deschamps|first=Tara|date=2022-01-03|title=Many BlackBerry phones to stop working|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/many-blackberry-phones-to-stop-working-1.5726127|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-03|website=CTV News|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103180419/https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/many-blackberry-phones-to-stop-working-1.5726127|archive-date=January 3, 2022}}</ref>

[[Katy Perry]] was also a BlackBerry user. She used the 8800 in her [[Part of Me (Katy Perry song)|Part of Me]] music video, used the Bold 9780, Torch and other models in her [[Katy Perry: Part of Me|film]], was seen using the Curve 8900 and Bold 9900<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bbvietnam.com/threads/katy-perry-va-blackberry.6639 |title=Katy Perry và BlackBerry |website=BBVietnam |access-date=February 27, 2025 |date=July 2, 2012}}</ref> and attended the launch of the Pearl Flip.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://katyperrycn.net/photo/pnaWQ9MzIzNiZjYXRpZD00MSZwbj0x |title=Z100 & Blackberry All Access Lounge |website=KatyPerryChina |access-date=February 27, 2025 |date=December 12, 2008}}</ref> In 2012, she switched to the iPhone 4S for 2 weeks and switched back to BlackBerry for the keyboard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blackberryvzla.com/2011/12/la-estrella-katy-perry-probo-un-iphone.html |title=La estrella Katy Perry probo un iPhone 4S no le gusto y regreso a su BlackBerry |website=BlackberryVzla |access-date=February 27, 2025 |date=2012}}</ref> She has since been spotted using an iPhone instead.

[[E.L. James]] wrote [[Fifty Shades of Grey]] on her BlackBerry.<ref>{{cite web |last=Acuna |first=Kirsten |url=https://businessinsider.com/fifty-shades-of-grey-written-on-blackberry-2015-2 |title='Fifty Shades of Grey': Author Wrote Much of Book on Blackberry - Business Insider |website=Business Insider |access-date=February 27, 2025 |date=February 17, 2015}}</ref>

Nigerian author [[Stephen Buoro]] wrote the first draft of his debut novel on his BlackBerry.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Stephen Buoro Brings to Life "HXVX," a Loveable Teen Protagonist, and Modern Nigeria in All its Beauty, Contradictions, and Permutations |journal=[[Chicago Review of Books]] |url=https://chireviewofbooks.com/2023/05/08/the-five-sorrowful-mysteries-of-andy-africa/ |last=Riehl |first=Peter |date=2023-05-08}}</ref>

[[Eric Schmidt]], Executive Chairman of [[Google]] from 2001 to 2011, was a longtime BlackBerry user. Although smartphones running Google's [[Android (operating system)|Android]] mobile [[operating system]] compete with BlackBerry, Schmidt said in a 2013 interview that he uses a BlackBerry because he prefers its keyboard.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Surprise! Google chairman Eric Schmidt uses.. a BlackBerry |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/21/eric-schmidt-blackberry-user |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=September 3, 2015 |first=Charles |last=Arthur |date=March 21, 2013}}</ref>

The Italian criminal group known as the [['Ndrangheta]] was reported in February 2009 to have communicated overseas with the [[Gulf Cartel]], a Mexican drug cartel, through the use of the BlackBerry Messenger, since the BBM Texts are "very difficult to intercept".<ref>{{cite news |title=Narco-mafia se comunican por Blackberry |url=http://www.cnnexpansion.com/actualidad/2009/02/19/mafia-italiana-en-contacto-con-narcos |access-date=January 20, 2012 |website=[[CNN Expansión]] |date=February 19, 2009 |language=es |archive-date=December 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121226090127/http://www.cnnexpansion.com/actualidad/2009/02/19/mafia-italiana-en-contacto-con-narcos |url-status=usurped }}</ref>