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New BlackBerry Phones Coming From OnwardMobility

posted by on Friday August 21 2020, @10:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the defibrillating-a-mummy dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

New BlackBerry Phone Planned by Third Party:

It looks like BlackBerry hardware is back from the brink of extinction once again. Today, the security startup OnwardMobility announced plans to release a new 5G BlackBerry smartphone with a physical keyboard. It could arrive in North America and Europe as soon as the first half of 2021.

This may sound familiar. A few years ago, BlackBerry seemed to be a thing of the past. Then, TCL agreed to manufacture two BlackBerry-branded phones. In February, TCL decided not to renew the deal with BlackBerry, and this month, it stopped selling the devices. Thanks to OnwardMobility, BlackBerry may get one more chance.

Also at Arstechnica and CNet.

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  • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Saturday August 22 2020, @01:48PM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 22 2020, @01:48PM (#1040360)

    But on the plus side, they will make phones with keyboards. I'll forgive many ills to avoid having to type on a touchscreen.

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