In 2013, BlackBerry introduced BlackBerry 10, a major revamp of the platform based on the QNX operating system. Historically, BlackBerry devices used a proprietary operating system-known as BlackBerry OS-developed by BlackBerry Limited. However, BlackBerry lost its dominant position in the market due to the success of the Android and iOS platforms its numbers had fallen to 23 million in March 2016 and slipped even further to 11 million in May 2017. At its peak in September 2011, there were 85 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide. īlackBerry was one of the most prominent smartphone brands in the world, specializing in secure communications and mobile productivity, and well known for the keyboards on most of its devices.
OnwardMobility was cooperating with BlackBerry Limited and FIH Mobile (a subsidiary of Foxconn) as they "sought to revitalize the iconic BlackBerry brand through an Android-based, next-gen Wi-Fi device." However, in a statement released on February 18, 2022, OnwardMobility said that not only would the development of the new BlackBerry device not be moving forward, but the company itself would be shutting down, as well. In summer 2020, the Texas-based startup OnwardMobility signed a new licensing agreement with BlackBerry Limited to develop a new 5G BlackBerry smartphone. The original licensors were BB Merah Putih for the Indonesian market, Optiemus Infracom for the South Asian market, and BlackBerry Mobile (a trade name of TCL Technology) for all other markets. īeginning in 2016, BlackBerry Limited licensed third-party companies to design, manufacture, and market smartphones under the BlackBerry brand. BlackBerry World, Google Play Store, BlackBerry MessengerīlackBerry is a former brand of smartphones, tablets, and services originally developed by the Canadian company BlackBerry Limited (formerly known as Research In Motion, or RIM) in January 1999.
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