BlackBerry 5G phone could be canceled, OnwardMobility is said to lose its license
OnwardMobility, a startup tech company, announced in August 2020 that it is working on the development of a new BlackBerry-branded smartphone. Few details about the device have been announced other than that it will feature a physical keyboard and will be released in the first half of 2021. That didn't happen, and now the company is reportedly facing even bigger problems.
Kevin Michaluk, founder of CrackBerry reports that the 5G BlackBerry phone in development is dead. He wrote in a forum post: "We'll see whether or not they actually post an official update on their blog, but my guess is that John Chen/BlackBerry prefers to just quietly disappear (he's clearly done with phones ) and at this point it's probably best for all of us to forget about this train wreck."
OnwardMobility hasn't publicly confirmed the claim — the company's last statement was in January, assuring that the phone was still in development. The post read: "While we've encountered various delays that have prevented us from shipping the device in 2021, starting this month we'll be providing regular updates that answer many of your questions about the ultra-secure 5G enterprise smartphone (still with keyboard!) that we will bring to market, clarify and answer."
After BlackBerry's decision to stop producing its own smartphones, the company licensed it to TCL, which later produced devices like the BlackBerry KEYone and KEY2. TCL's last BlackBerry device was the KEYY2 LE in 2018.
OnwardMobility could release the phone without the BlackBerry name, but without the iconic branding, the finished product probably wouldn't sell as well as the original concept.
Sources):
CrackBerry
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