On January 4, 2022, BlackBerry officially stopped supporting all smartphones and gadgets with the proprietary BlackBerry OS. Built-in services (Messenger, World, ID, Protect) stopped working on the company's mobile devices on BlackBerry OS 7.1, BlackBerry OS 10, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier versions, and basic functions are also partially or completely unavailable. For example, in the United States, voice communication, mobile Internet, Wi-Fi, short message service, as well as Blackberry Link, Desktop Manager and Blend stopped working. These restrictions did not apply to BlackBerry smartphones running on Android OS.
Initially, BlackBerry planned to disable servers that support smartphones with BlackBerry OS, earlier in 2019. But then the company decided to give its users 2 more years of support as a thank you.
The Blackberry company was a very famous manufacturer of communicators and push-button telephones. In 2010, Blackberry bought QNX and created its Blackberry Tablet OS, and then in 2012 released Blackberry OS 10, which has a microkernel architecture. It had to compete with Android and iOS. But time has shown that users of Blackberry devices, although they are ready to spend a large amount for a convenient smartphone, are few in number.
11 mobile devices were released based on Blackberry OS 10 - Blackberry Q10, Q5, Z10, Z3, Z30, Passport Silver Edition, Leap, Classic, Porsche Design P9983, 9982, Passport. Most of them have a comfortable proprietary QWERTY keyboard, but there are some models in the classic design without buttons.
Prior to the introduction of touchscreen smartphones, Techcrunch reports that BlackBerry devices, known for high security, comfortable QWERTY keyboards, and targeted at corporate customers, were the bestsellers in the US and around the world.
In 2017, Roskomnadzor blocked access to Blackberry services in Russia. In our country, you cannot connect directly to the manufacturer's servers through smartphones and BlackBerry communicators, for example, you also cannot install the necessary software for a PC without a VPN or configure a mobile device after a factory reset.
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