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`Motorola PageWriter 2000
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`By Peter Ha Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
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`Three years before RIM released the first BlackBerry,
`Motorola had the PageWriter 2000, a device that could send
`and receive messages. It wasn't the first two-way pager —
`that honor belongs to the Motorola Tango, which was
`introduced in 1995 — but the PageWriter featured a 47-key
`QWERTY keyboard and could even transmit faxes and e-
`mails.
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