Earlier this week we waved goodbye to the classic BlackBerry devices – all the ones that came before the brand’s pivot to Android stopped working on January 4 2022. They can’t access the Internet, send messages or make calls, not even to emergency services.
This is the end of a legacy that stretches back over two decades with the earliest BlackBerry messengers. Their hardware QWERTY keyboards, advanced instant messaging and serious business attitude made them quite popular in the early noughties.
While they supported apps, they had trouble adapting to the new smartphone era….