BlackBerry stopped launching phones and tablets with its own system years ago, switched to Android in 2015, and then switched from a hardware company to a software company and outsourced the design of BlackBerry-branded phones to other companies.
If you still have an older BlackBerry phone running BlackBerry OS, it may be used as a stand-up, and that will change next week, as BlackBerry has announced that it will end support for legacy services for BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry PlayBook OS next week. According to the company, many commonly used features will stop working.
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 and software connected via carriers or Wi-Fi will no longer function reliably, including data, phone calls, text messaging, and 911 emergency calls.
BlackBerry said WiFi and mobile data could also become unreliable, and apps including BlackBerry Link, BlackBerry Desktop Manager, BlackBerry World, BlackBerry Protect, BlackBerry Messenger and BlackBerry Blend "will also have limited functionality."
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will also reach obsolescence, meaning the ten-year-old tablet will be severely restricted from January 4. The fact that BlackBerry discontinued production a year after launching the tablet suggests that there may not have been as many PlayBook users from the start, and that number is certainly even smaller over the past decade.
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