Classic BlackBerry, classic physical keyboard input, can be called a good memory of how many people linger. But multiple sources confirmed that OnwardMobility's Dream of a BlackBerry 5G phone project has died. Perhaps the moment when The Canadian BlackBerry Company announced on January 4, 2022, that it would stop updating the service system of the BlackBerry mobile phone was the classic end of this generation.
After concluding its partnership with TCL, BlackBerry announced a partnership with OnwardMobility, which will receive a license from BlackBerry to produce BlackBerry phones. Although earlier this year, OnwardMobility said that a BlackBerry 5G phone equipped with a keyboard is still planned, although it has some obstacles but will still bring BlackBerry 5G phones to the market.
However, according to the latest news, OnwardMobility's license to use the BlackBerry brand was recently canceled, BlackBerry CEO Cheng Shouzong was reluctant to use the brand's name on another smartphone, and the BlackBerry 5G mobile phone project has been cancelled due to the lack of smooth supply chains.
Imagine that in 2009, BlackBerry won 20% of the global smartphone market, but from 2010, the global smartphone began to fully enter the iPhone-led intelligent era, that is, when BlackBerry began to decline.
The end of a generation of classics is indeed lamentable, but the end of one era means the arrival of another new era, and when it is impossible to change the wheel of the times, it may be a good choice to conform to the times.