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Blackberry phones aren’t coming back to life after all

02/23/202202/22/2022 John Montgallo

OnwardMobility, the brand’s latest owner, has officially confirmed that it is shutting down. US start-up OnwardMobility, which had been promising to launch new 5G BlackBerry phones at some point last year, has now confirmed that the project has ground to a halt because the company itself will be shutting down. The company had recently reaffirmed that it still had every intention for a delayed device launch. However, OnwardMobility has now posted an official notice on its website, confirming that it has shelved the project and that it will be shutting…

OnwardMobility to launch 5G BlackBerry with physical keyboard

01/12/202201/11/2022 John Montgallo

5G BlackBerry - BlackBerry Smartphone with keyboard

The company that acquired the brand has confirmed that it is bringing the smartphone to life. “Contrary to popular belief, we are not dead,” said a statement from OnwardMobility as it announced its intentions to launch a 5G BlackBerry smartphone featuring the much-loved physical keyboard. OnwardMobility is the owner of the brand and has underscored its commitment to the smartphone. OnwardMobility acquired the brand early in 2021. Shortly after the acquisition, it announced that it was already working on a new 5G BlackBerry phone. Even then, it was confirming that…

BlackBerry phones to come to an end as TCL drops the license

02/06/202002/05/2020 John Montgallo

BlackBerry Phones - BlackBerry Priv phone

The Android-based devices will come to an end later in 2020, by the end of August. TCL Communications, the electronics maker behind the last remaining BlackBerry phones will stop selling the devices later this year. This will mark the end of the smartphone brand’s devices, which once dominated the market. Though it wasn’t very long ago, most of us have nearly forgotten the time when BlackBerry phones were the easy leader in the smartphone market. In fact, the brand was a household name used synonymously with cell phones as a…

BlackBerry hardware to shut down following plummeting quarterly revenue

09/29/201609/28/2016 Julie Campbell

The struggling Canadian company has now announced its cessation of phone manufacturing. Though it didn’t come as much of a surprise to most, the announcement that new BlackBerry hardware is a thing of the past still raised eyebrows. CEO John Chen has been determined to save the smartphone side of the business. That said, after a quarterly report showing plummeting revenues, Chen has now accepted the inevitable. After this fiscal year, BlackBerry will no longer design, make or sell smartphones and other hardware. The second quarter revenue report revealed a…