It’s finish. If you try to start your aging Blackberry smartphone today, it will not perform as it always did in the past. BlackBerry, formerly RIM, is on schedule announced in 2020 for deactivate services for BlackBerry OS, marking the end of an era of mobile technology.
BlackBerry was once the king of “smartphones” before Apple redefined what people expected from a mobile device. The company’s stunning physical keyboards, messaging, and connectivity were all considered the gold standard, but BlackBerry was also bloated and slow to change. He laughed at the iPhone as a toy, but a year later he released one of the many touchscreen phones called Storm. It missed the point, completely failing to compete with the iPhone, thus beginning BlackBerry’s long slide into the uselessness of smartphones.
One of the main issues holding BlackBerry back was the centralized nature of its products. The iPhone had a full web browser and connected to the same internet as computers, but BlackBerry pushed it all through a custom server infrastructure. That’s what carriers wanted at the time, but Apple was a game-changer.
Any hope that BlackBerry had of reclaiming a second place has been shattered by Google. Android took off in 2009 and 2010 building on partnerships with operators, who were once the bread and butter of BlackBerry. By the time Blackberry was able to modernize its software with BBOS 10, it was too late. He tried to make a few of his own Android phones like the Priv, but the project was quickly canceled.
The KEYone was manufactured by TCL. It runs on Android, so it is unaffected by today’s shutdown.
If you see a BlackBerry phone these days, it probably wasn’t a company-built one. In 2016, BlackBerry signed an agreement with TCL to manufacture Android phones under the BlackBerry name. We have several, like the passable KEYone and KEY2, but the partnership ended in 2020. Today, Blackberry is focused on enterprise products and services, and naturally they don’t want to continue supporting them. smartphones from over ten years ago.
According to BlackBerry, all remaining legacy BBOS devices “will no longer be expected to function reliably” from today. They’ve lost the ability to receive provisioning updates, which means there’s no data, phone calls, SMS, or even 911 functionality. Apps will also have limited capacity. This applies to devices connecting via carrier networks or Wi-Fi. If you have a classic BlackBerry, it’s no longer a phone, it’s a clipboard.
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