Blackberry phones ain't dead yet

Stefan Mileschin · 24th August 2020, 08:59

Someone else wants a crack at it

It looks like someone else wants to take up the Blackberry mantle after TCL announced plans to stop producing BlackBerry phones later this year.

Texas-based OnwardMobility has pledged to release a new phone featuring a physical keyboard sometime next year.

The outfit said it had reached an agreement with both BlackBerry and FIH Mobile Limited - a subsidiary of Foxconn - to create a new 5G BlackBerry Android phone with a physical keyboard.

The device is slated to be available in Europe and North America sometime in the first half of 2021. That said, this new BlackBerry phone will have slightly different ambitions than the previous BlackBerry handsets produced by TCL, as OnwardMobility is planning to target its BlackBerry phone at businesses and enterprise professionals who want something that delivers both a tactile typing experience and an emphasis on privacy and security.

https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/513...ain-t-dead-yet

24th August 2020, 08:59	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,812	Blackberry phones ain't dead yet Someone else wants a crack at it It looks like someone else wants to take up the Blackberry mantle after TCL announced plans to stop producing BlackBerry phones later this year. Texas-based OnwardMobility has pledged to release a new phone featuring a physical keyboard sometime next year. The outfit said it had reached an agreement with both BlackBerry and FIH Mobile Limited - a subsidiary of Foxconn - to create a new 5G BlackBerry Android phone with a physical keyboard. The device is slated to be available in Europe and North America sometime in the first half of 2021. That said, this new BlackBerry phone will have slightly different ambitions than the previous BlackBerry handsets produced by TCL, as OnwardMobility is planning to target its BlackBerry phone at businesses and enterprise professionals who want something that delivers both a tactile typing experience and an emphasis on privacy and security. https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/513...ain-t-dead-yet

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