Rims blackberry may not be certified by the national security agency to handle top secret material but a pda phone called the sectera edge has been its . Obama has wanted to ditch his blackberry for years obamas been joking about his awful phone situation for years now. President obama said he was finally allowed to ditch his blackberry and get a smartphone but the device is crippled for security reasons. President obama won the fight to keep his blackberry but being the nations first e mailing president comes with a specific set of rules. However the new phone is so locked down that its not much of an upgrade president obama has had to use a blackberry since the moment he took office