The final hope for a BlackBerry-branded telephone has been extinguished, with OnwardMobility confirming the shutdown of its already-delayed plans to launch a telephone with a bodily keyboard.
In a press release on its web site on Monday (by way of Android Central), the corporate says plans for a 5G Blackberry telephone, designed to proceed that fabled Analysis In Movement give attention to safety, have now run aground. That formally ends hopes of the BlackBerry title rejoining the most effective Android telephone ranks, in all probability endlessly.
The corporate mentioned: “We need to thanks all for the great quantity of assist that you’ve got given us since we first launched OnwardMobility. Nonetheless, it’s with nice disappointment that we announce that OnwardMobility might be shutting down, and we are going to not be continuing with the event of an ultra-secure smartphone with a bodily keyboard.
“Please know that this was not a call that we made calmly or in haste. We share your disappointment on this information and guarantee you this isn’t the result we labored and hoped for,” the Texas-based firm added.
OnwardMobility didn’t state why it has cancelled the product. Nonetheless, earlier reporting from Android Police mentioned the software-focused arm of BlackBerry had nixed the license it had granted to OnwardMobility out of a need to “distance itself” from the smartphone {hardware} enterprise.
BlackBerry is presently doing an honest commerce in offering safety software program for governments and massive gamers within the company world and has no need to return to its roots as a smartphone vendor.
