Nostalgia for those cell phones with a physical keyboard? As of Tuesday many models of BlackBerry that were once indispensable will no longer be able to be updated.
The Canadian company decided to withdraw the new updates to its operating system, which means that most devices BlackBerrysynonymous with the mobile digital culture of recent decades and adopted by politicians and executives, will be out of service after January 4.
“As of this date, devices that run these legacy services and software through an operator or WiFi connections will no longer function reliably, including for data, phone calls, SMS, and 911 (emergency) functionality,” reported the company on its website last month.
The maneuver “End-of-life“(end of life) or EOL, as he called it Blackberry, affects the operating system BlackBerry 7.1 and earlier versions, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier versions.
The company said, however, that devices using the operating system Android from Google, including BlackBerry KEY2 launched in 2018 and designed by the TCL Group of China, they would not be affected by the changes.
The decision marks the end of an era in mobile telephony, which peaked in the late 2000s when BlackBerry achieved great commercial success, especially among professionals.
The huge QWERTY keyboard for easy emailing and the simple, uncluttered layout was well received by business leaders, celebrities, politicians, and journalists.
The units of BlackBerry They were eventually supplanted by other smartphones, initially by Apple’s iPhone, which was released in 2009.
Attempts to relaunch BlackBerry they failed and their partnership with TCL for the latest model KEY2 was not renewed.
Since 2013, the Waterloo, Ontario-based company has focused on software development and production.
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