While BlackBerry itself stopped making phones a while ago, it still provided support to the existing ones. Turns out, the BlackBerry era is soon to officially come to an end as the company has decided to stop supporting phones running BlackBerry OS from next month.
BlackBerry has revealed that BlackBerry phones running BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier and BlackBerry 10 software, will no longer get the legacy services after January 4, 2022. That means basic services such as calling, texting, the 911 functionality, and more will no longer be available for users, thus, making the phones totally useless.
The decision to end support for BlackBerry OS-backed phones isn’t surprising, given that the company had shown withdrawal signs from the smartphone race ever since the iPhone came into being and Android moved towards the direction of big, touchscreen phones. It was expected to introduce a 5G phone running Android but that hasn’t seen the light of the day yet.
