Around 2010, it can be said that it was the "Spring and Autumn Warring States" era of the domestic smartphone market.
It's just that the big brothers who were in charge of the throne alone at that time have worked hard to play themselves into fallen aristocrats.
The empty market has not only stimulated the growth of domestic mobile phone brands, but also introduced a large number of foreign mobile phone brands.
For example, the iPhone 4 series model in China was fired that year.
It was released in June 2010 and launched on September 25 at 8 a.m. in the Apple Store for customers in China.
At the time, only Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing had Apple Stores.
Not only Apple, but also the blackberry mobile phone with distinctive personality entered the domestic market at the same time.
At that time, everyone else was a number 9 key, a big keyboard, a small screen.
Unlike The BlackBerry, it uses a standard QWERTY English keyboard, a small keyboard, and a smaller screen.
The name also has a beginning.
Because its keyboard looks like a seed on the surface of a strawberry, it is called "BlackBerry".
To be honest, this phone is really unfriendly to the elderly.
In that era, wasn't everyone blindly typing, so small keyboard button words had to be deducted for half a day.
However, there are still many people who like this personalized mobile phone.
At its peak, BlackBerry once won 50% of the U.S. market share, and the proportion of global market shipments reached 20%.
The dominance of the market is also comparable to today's Samsung.
However, later in the iOS and Android popularity, BlackBerry still insisted on using its own operating system, the ecology is relatively backward, the loss of users is very serious.
Moreover, the logo of BlackBerry is the standard English keyboard of QWERTY, and when smart large-screen mobile phones slowly became popular, this keyboard became an obstacle to its progress.
Speaking of which, sometimes, going with the flow is not a bad thing.
This may be the guidance given by the times. When you don't transform in time, call it a fall behind, and take another road, it will also be called a fork in the road.
As a result, the BlackBerry, which lost a large part of the market, soon fell silent.
In 2016, it was announced that it would stop developing smartphones.
In 2020, BlackBerry also stopped developing, producing and selling BlackBerry phones.
Since then, BlackBerry's unique system has also been announced that it is no longer supported.
Older services with 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.
These legacy services and software that are connected via carriers or wireless networks will no longer operate reliably, including data surfing, phone calls, text messages, and 911 emergency calls.
That is to say, after January 4th, the BlackBerry directly became bricked.
Nothing is supported, and no phone calls and text messages can be made.
Nothing but power consumption.
At this point, everyone thought that it would withdraw from the stage of history and turn into the most colorful dust in time.
However, it does not.
Finally, there is news that it is going to release a new machine!!
On January 10, OnwardMobility said in a blog post:
BlackBerry is not "dead", although it has not launched a new machine for three years, but they have obtained a license to produce BlackBerry phones in 2020.
Originally planned to launch a BlackBerry-branded 5G smartphone in 2021, 2021 was an extremely challenging year, so the launch of the machine was inevitably delayed.
Today, they still plan to launch an "ultra-secure 5G enterprise smartphone" with a keyboard.
Because the new machine uses Android, it does not require the old BlackBerry service to run.
Brothers, let's put together the keywords.
With keyboard, smart, 5G, and Android, security, enterprise-grade.
I never expected that in 2022, I would see these words arranged together.
More revelations are not, and others are not much to say.
Someone else retro up to add a 3.5 headphone hole, good guys, this directly adds the physical keyboard back.
So, are you bullish on this smartphone with a keyboard? Let's discuss and discuss together in the message area!