The final nail may have been driven into BlackBerry’s coffin - vanallendiffeclus
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Yes, you can still walk into a store and bargain a BlackBerry in 2020, but those days May soon be finished given a recent announcement from BlackBerry phone maker TCL.
TCL says that as of August 31, 2020, information technology "will no longer be selling BlackBerry-branded mobile devices … (and) has no further rights to invention, manufacture or sell any new BlackBerry mobile devices." That's pretty much a death be adrift to the company's slender hopes of mounting a revival.
If you own a Blackberry bush KeyOne or Key2, TCL says it will continue to allow support for phones through August 2022, just I wouldn't hold my intimation for an Android 10 update anytime soon.
Granted, TCL's investment in BlackBerry was e'er an uphill skin. When it announced it was licensing the sword back in December 2016, it was met with an equal mix of quizzical stares and snickers, as BlackBerry's heyday was long in the rearview mirror. The launch of the iPhone and the proliferation of Android handsets made the hardware keyboard look old-time and antiquated, and the plain thought of trying to use one again made our thumbs hurt.
But nonetheless, TCL persisted, and to comprise honest, we didn't hate the BlackBerry Key2. But in a world of six-in screens and puissant cameras, BlackBerry's visual sense was a inedible sell to anyone just a despondent nostalgic. Symmetrical the once-popular BlackBerry Courier service named it equal in May.
So it's not at all surprising that TCL has opted not to renew its Blackberry bush license. Any BlackBerry phone is destined to be a recess product, and as Android phones pick off up many cameras and pixels, that recess seems to personify ever-shrinking. So pour one out for BlackBerry and the physical keyboard, both of which will likely never be seen again.
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Michael Simon has been natural covering Apple since the iPod was the iWalk. His fixation with technology goes back to his first PC—the IBM Thinkpad with the lift-up keyboard for swapping out the drive. He's still waiting for that to come back in style tbh.
Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/398723/tcl-will-no-longer-make-blackberry-android-phones.html
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