The company has experienced a slow and torturous decline since its dominant era in the late 2000s, when its QWERTY keyboards and reputation for security gave it a 50 percent market share in the US, but such a storied brand has to be wrung for its last dregs of value. Image: The VergeĪs alluded to above, though, this might not be the last BlackBerry death we announce.
#BLACKBERRY LINK HAS STOPPED WORKING WINDOWS 10 ANDROID#
(Though BlackBerry devices running Android will continue to work as normal.) An elegant phone for a more civilized age: the BlackBerry 8310. From January 4th onwards, it’ll be little more than a paperweight.
If, for whatever inexplicable reason, you or someone you love is still using an original BlackBerry, then we recommend you make it a New Year’s resolution to pry it gently but firmly from their hands. Whether on Wi-Fi or cellular, there’ll be no guarantee you can make phone calls, send text messages, use data, establish an SMS connection, or even call 9-1-1. And, yes, I realize that this is not the first time we’ve announced the death of the company or its devices (and, for reasons I’ll explain below, it likely won’t be the last) but this is a very definite ending for legacy BlackBerry hardware.Īs of January 4th, any phones or tablets running BlackBerry’s own software - that’s BlackBerry 7.1 or earlier, BlackBerry 10, or its tablet operating system BlackBerry PlayBook - will “no longer reliably function,” says the company. Dear friends, we’re gathered here today to mourn the death of that once-beloved monarch of the mobile world: BlackBerry.
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