BlackBerry mobile eventually rests in peace!

BlackBerry has reportedly cancelled its licensing contract with OnwardMobility and may now not be producing new smartphones.

This news follows on the heels of an announcement by BlackBerry that it fully bought its legacy cell patent assets for a sum of $600 million to a consortium of businesses known as Catapult IP improvements Inc. The purpose at the back of this decision is unknown.

BlackBerry changed into purported to make a comeback with an all-new 5G-enabled Android mobilephone with a actual keyboard in 2022. the brand new cellphone with 5G would have taken design cues from the Android-powered BlackBerry Priv from 2015.

In August 2020, OnwardMobility introduced a licensing take care of the Canadian utility enterprise after TCL parted techniques with it after over three years.

OnwardMobility changed into to launch its first BlackBerry cell in the first half of 2021. despite the fact, no equipment changed into launched with the aid of the business. firstly of 2022, fanatics bought some promising information from OnwardMobility reassuring that a new telephone remains in the works with greater regular updates.

The company pointed out logistical and supply issues have led to severe delays to the launch of the machine, which might have been a contributing ingredient to the decision to revoke the OnwardMobility licence.

while the business has no different products to present, it remains to be considered if OnwardMobility tries to salvage the dead smartphone project to create a cell machine of their personal.

BlackBerry telephones working Android like the Priv, KeyOne and Key2 can be useable for essentially the most part as they still have entry to the Google Play save in the interim. gadgets manufactured by means of TCL like the Keyone and Key2 will proceed to acquire customs carrier assist unless August 31, 2022.

For telephones running on Blackberry 10 and older, Blackberry put out an announcement that it's pulling the plug on BlackBerry capabilities and native apps on Jan 4, 2022, advising towards the use of these devices for they're going to no longer feature reliably for facts, cell and SMS.

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