The start of 2022 will mark the end of BlackBerry’s history in the smartphone world. The brand has announced that the old models powered by the in-house OS will no longer work, or in a very limited way, from January 4, 2022.
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Before the arrival of iPhones in 2007, the real first smartphones stars were the BlackBerrys with their keyboard physique complete, their secure messaging system and the receipt of emails by ” push “. And then, from 2010, despite many efforts, it was the tumble. In 2015, for lack of a library ofapplications competitive, the brand would abandon its own operating system in favor ofAndroid.
Finally, in September 2016, BlackBerry announced the end of the marketing of its mobiles. But the brand had its followers because above all its smartphones, known for their robustness, are indeed tough. Even though they have long lacked the most popular applications, they still allow you to use telephony options and surf the Web.
However, as of January 4, we will have to make up our minds. BlackBerry announced that it will no longer support the services associated with BlackBerry OS up to version 7.1, as well as BlackBerry 10. The same applies to the OS specific to BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. In other words, even phone calls, emergency calls and SMS will no longer be “reliably” supported, depending on the brand.
Android models not affected
Les applications maison (BlackBerry Link, BlackBerry Desktop Manager, BlackBerry World, BlackBerry Protect, BlackBerry Messenger and BlackBerry Blend) will also lose most of their functionality. For the last of the users of these vestiges of a time when one pressed the keys of a keyboard to type long messages, BlackBerry indicates procedures to help them to migrate their data.
For their part, the brand’s smartphones with Android, such as the BlackBerry Priv, will continue to function normally. The only impact they could have concerns the use of an email address managed by the push BlackBerry. If BlackBerry definitely draws its reference in theuniverse from smartphones, the brand still exists and has chosen to focus on the marketing of software and services secure for businesses and government organizations.
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