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(Image credit: Future) BlackBerry 5G timeline The Blackberry line hasn't exactly been dormant since original company Research In Motion, or Blackberry Limited, stopped making phones under the name in 2017. However the hey-day of QWERT keyboard-toting productivity phones was certainly in the rear-view mirror. From 2016 to late 2020, Chinese tech firm TCL signed up to release phones under the Blackberry name, and we saw a small smattering of devices like the That's not to say that there's no place for keyboard phones, and some users swear by them. This kind of user got to come out in force in mid-2020 when a little-known Texan company called OnwardMobility purchased the rights to the Blackberry name. You can see a video of the company's CEO, Peter Franklin, announcing the new Blackberry below. Fans were excited: OnwardMobility promised a 5G phone with a QWERTY keyboard, lots of features and top-notch security. More, the website implied future Blackberry 5G products would be coming too. OnwardMobility also promised that this device would be coming to consumer markets too, so anyone could buy it. Understandably, there was a lot of excitement. Blackberry phones are coming back? And back with a bang? Take my money! At the time, OnwardMobility pledged to release the device in 2021, and in an interview with Clearly that wasn't to be, though, as May sailed past with nary a word from the fruity company. And then so did June. In July 2021, OnwardMobility A longer wait was indeed in s...

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BlackBerry, the company that once dominated smart mobile devices, recently announced it is finally discontinuing key services that support its phones. As of today, the phones will no longer be provided with provisioning services, meaning they will gradually lose the ability to join networks, including the cellular network. BlackBerry eventually gave up on its own phones and started releasing Android versions before exiting the hardware business entirely (it now primarily provides corporate security services). The last version of the BlackBerry OS it released dates back to 2013, so the devices affected here are now extremely old. The promised period of support actually ended over a year ago, which means the company has already over-delivered on its promises. The effect of the end of support is detailed on There are a handful of software services that relied on connections to BlackBerry servers in order to function. So, if you relied on something like BlackBerry World or BlackBerry Link, those will stop functioning today. The number of people likely to be affected by this is vanishingly small. Still, it serves as a clear marker of the end of what was once a very significant technology. This story originally appeared on Ars Technica .