BlackBerry pulls the plug on its pioneering mobile phone

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BlackBerry pulls the plug on its pioneering mobile phone
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Software maker, long out of the cellphone business, is no longer supporting its once popular device.

Service on BlackBerry cellphones — once the preferred mobile device for Wall Street, Capitol Hill and the media — shut down for good on Tuesday, closing the door on a piece of technology that helped usher in a revolution in communications. in September 2020 that it would stop updating operating systems and software for its devices on January 4, 2022. The move impacts devices running BlackBerry's 7.1 OS as well as earlier platforms, BlackBerry 10 software and BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1.

BlackBerry phones using the Android operating system will continue to operate, but the company will no longer update the platform or related services.

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