It's officially over: BlackBerry to stop making phones

2016/9/30 7:34:37

Photo: The BlackBerry Classic smartphone, an updated version of the PDA-style phone that made the company so popular pre-iPhone. Photo: Bloomberg

 


By Ian Austen for the Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 30, 2016

 

Stepping away from its signature product, BlackBerry will no longer make its own smartphones, the device it once defined.

 

Before being overtaken by iPhones from Apple, BlackBerry's phones were so popular that they were nicknamed CrackBerry, and President Barack Obama battled security officials to retain his BlackBerry when he took office. But the distressed Canadian company's decision, announced on Wednesday, means the BlackBerry name will now be found only on handsets made by a group owned by phone companies in Indonesia, which has licensed the brand.

 

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