While many would probably like to see a new BlackBerry phone, it may be time to say a final farewell to the former smartphone industry leader. It has been a few years since a BlackBerry-branded smartphone was released. A model was planned for release in 2021 by a new licensee, but it didn’t launch. […]
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BlackBerry Ends Service; Devices Will Stop Working January 4
To legions of executives, journalists and politicians — even the leader of the free world — they were once-indispensable devices for staying connected when ordinary cellphones wouldn’t suffice. Anything else was for amateurs. The devices, with the quirky-sounding name BlackBerry and the QWERTY keyboard that conditioned many people to type […]
BlackBerry pulls the plug on its pioneering mobile phone
Service on BlackBerry cellphones — once the preferred mobile device for Wall Street, Capitol Hill and the media — shut down for good on Tuesday, closing the door on a piece of technology that helped usher in a revolution in communications. BlackBerry announced in September 2020 that it would stop updating […]