IT House February 20 news, last week there was news that plans for 5G BlackBerrys equipped with physical keyboards have been shelved, and now the OnwardMobility team that develops this phone officially announced in a post on its website that Mobileity will be shut down and will no longer continue to develop ultra-secure BlackBerry smartphones with physical keyboards.
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Earlier this year, OnwardMobility gave people hope back with a blog post titled "Contrary to popular belief, we're not dead." While the company acknowledges that it has encountered various delays that will prevent it from shipping in 2021, the company said it hopes to soon provide new news about its "ultra-secure 5G enterprise smartphones." Regrettably, the new news was the announcement of the cancellation of the aircraft.
OnwardMobility did not elaborate on why it was canceling the development of the machine, but last week Android Police reported that OnwardMobility's license to use the BlackBerry brand had recently been canceled, and That's CEO Cheng Shouzong was reluctant to use the brand's name on another smartphone.
IT Home understands that BlackBerry itself withdrew from the consumer smartphone business in 2016 to focus on the company's cybersecurity products and services. Over the years, the brand name has been licensed to smartphone makers such as TCL and Optiemus Infracom, although these companies eventually moved away from the brand.