What about the BlackBerry 5G phone that was scheduled to debut in the first half of 2021?
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In February 2020, BlackBerry Mobile announced that as of August 31, 2020, brand-licensed TCL Communications will no longer sell BlackBerry-branded mobile devices and will no longer have the authority to design, manufacture and sell any new BlackBerry mobile devices.
When the partnership between BlackBerry and TCL ended, many thought they would never see a BlackBerry smartphone again. Seven months later, however, BlackBerry partnered with OnwardMobility, which will receive licenses from the BlackBerry brand to produce BlackBerry phones.
At the time, officials said onwardMobility and its partners were developing a BlackBerry 5G phone that would be released in the first half of this year.
Now that 2022 has arrived, BlackBerry 5G mobile phones have not yet heard from.
According to the data, BlackBerry is a brand of mobile wireless communication equipment and wireless services of BlackBerry in Canada, and its biggest feature is equipped with a complete QWERTY keyboard.
Since 2006, the BlackBerry 7100 "Charm" series has marked a new era of BlackBerry products, and ordinary consumers are addicted to this product with photo, navigation and BBM chat functions. In 2009, BlackBerry won 20% of the world's smartphone market.
But that's where the blackberry's brilliance ends.
There is no feast under the heavens
The phone is delayed, but the latest news is that blackBerry's BlackBerry OS is about to end service.
BlackBerry announced that older services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier will no longer be available after January 4, 2022, and that legacy services connected via carriers or Wi-Fi will no longer operate reliably.
BlackBerry, a brand that is regarded as the first choice by many business people, has now become a memory of the times, and the era of BlackBerry is gone.
Since 2006, the BlackBerry 7100 "Charm" series has marked a new era of BlackBerry products, and consumers are addicted to this product with photo, navigation and BBM chat functions. In 2009, BlackBerry won 20% of the world's market, when Android and iOS were just emerging.
However, the glory of BlackBerry also ended here, in 2010, the world's smart phones began to fully enter the iPhone-led intelligent era, BlackBerry began to decline, with the strong rise of domestic mobile phone brands in the world, the BlackBerry era ended.
BlackBerry jumping out of the phone circle
If you really think that BlackBerry is gone, you are very wrong, in fact, BlackBerry has not invested much energy in the mobile phone circle over the years.
In the field of automotive operating system, the BlackBerry QNX operating system has occupied half of the embedded operating system of intelligent and connected vehicles, far surpassing Linux and Androdi, and is a veritable leader. According to statistics, as of the end of June 2020, more than 175 million cars in motion have been equipped with QNX systems. Even apple's well-known Carplay feature is based on BlackBerry's QNX system.
Nowadays, domestic cars also use this system.
Recently, BlackBerry and automotive system integrator Desay SV have reached a cooperation to provide the Xiaopeng P7 with a QNX operating system.
At present, the Xiaopeng P7 has been produced and sold in China, the car is equipped with Desay SV's autonomous driving domain controller IPU 03, the controller with the help of multiple sensors for data acquisition, can achieve 360 degrees of omni-sensing and automatic adjustments, and Desay SV gave the controller's operating system part to BlackBerry.
The most commendable thing about BlackBerry's QNX operating system is its security, which is also the biggest advantage of the QNX operating system.
The future of domestic mobile phone systems
With the launch of Windows Mobile and BlackBerry, the mobile phone operating system seems to be only Two, Android and iOS, but after so many years, the domestic mobile phone system will still take the old blackBerry road? Thinking of this question, subconsciously will look at Hongmeng.
In fact, many mobile phone manufacturers will take their own mobile phone operating system as the selling point, but most of the domestic mobile phone operating systems are based on the deep customization of the Android system mobile phone operating system, its operating mode, system differentiation is small, and the customized system is mainly based on the user experience, mainly based on the difference between the software and hardware of major mobile phone terminal manufacturers to divide their brand mobile phone positioning.
China's four major Android system mobile phone manufacturers Huawei, OPPO, vivo their market share is on the rise, but other brands of mobile phone manufacturers market share shrinking from 26.8% to 4%. However, it is expected that in 2025, the size of China's Android system market will shrink to $34.30 billion.
Harmony OS is a full-scenario distributed operating system developed by Huawei based on the microkernel for 9 years, which is a mobile operating system with a completely different framework from the Android system and iOS system, which is mainly composed of the kernel layer, the system service layer, the application framework layer and the application layer, and its system belongs to the open source mobile operating system, but it belongs to the different platform architecture with the Android system.
At present, China's mobile phone system can be divided into Android system and iOS system, and its Android system accounts for nearly 90% of China's market share. If Huawei converts all its Android phones to Harmony OS, its market size is expected to reach $3.50 billion.
Unlike BlackBerry, which abandons the mobile phone market to attack the field of smart cars, Hongmeng, as a distributed operating system for all scenarios, is not only built for mobile phones.
With the support of the huge ecological camp, it is clear that Hongmeng has the hope of going further and better than BlackBerry!