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Anyone hoping beyond hope that, despite recent developments, there still might be a new 5G BlackBerry smartphone with keyboard on its way might as well reconcile themselves to a keyboardless life. OnwardMobility has shut down, abandoning its optimistic plans to develop the successor to the iconic device. The announcement on its now single page website
The Texas-based startup is mysteriously shutting down and taking its ultra-secure 5G BlackBerry with it
Image: BlackBerry Key2 LE Not long ago, Blackberry and TCL ended their partnership, leading the former to walk away from the smartphone market. In late 2020, OnwardMobility acquired the license to sell phones under Blackberry’s name and even announced some ambitious plans for the brand’s reboot. Now, there’s a report on the same confirming a product launch in 2021, complete with the classic Blackberry keyboard. Also Read - Blackberry is coming back once more, will debut in 2021 with a flagship keyboard phone A recent report from IT Home states OnwardMobility CEO, Peter Franklin, hinting...
Maxime Morin, a 35-year-old marketer in Quebec, first started tinkering with his phone out of curiosity. What was this device, a BlackBerry Torch with a sliding screen and full physical keyboard, capable of? How did its mechanical parts fit together and work? There was a lot to explore within this handheld gadget. And then, of course, it broke. There weren’t many good online tutorials about how to fix the thing, which first came out more than a decade ago. Morin bought a working Torch for comparison and toyed around with both devices until he figured out what was wrong with his broken one.