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BlackBerry Announces It Won't Make Any Other Phones Ever Again

BlackBerry Announces It Won't Make Any Other Phones Ever Again

A sad day for all.

Josh Teal

Josh Teal

The BlackBerry phone is dead. The BlackBerry phone, a pivotal part of a lot of our young lives, is kaput.

The BlackBerry phone officially died to me about two months ago when, on a trip home, I discovered my old one lying around my bedroom with the charger. I put it in my bag with the intention of charging it and seeing how terrible I texted in 2010. One afternoon I went to the pub, got drunk, went to another pub and then another, before going home. Woke up the next morning realising I'd left the fucking bag at the pub. And because I'm a lazy piece of shite, I only rang them up about two weeks later. They didn't have it.

Credit: PA

Anyway, the company plans to outsource all developments to partners. It follows endless speculation regarding the future of the smartphone in a world of iPhones and Samsungs.

"The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners," CEO John Chen said in a statement.

BlackBerry has said getting shut of the section of the business that makes its phones will be conducive to the company saving on capital.

Other companies will do the designing and building.

BlackBerry plans to spend its time working on software, which it said is 'taking hold.'

It's a sad day. The BlackBerry, in 20/20 hindsight, was a crap phone. It was crap before we had iPhones, and then when we got them, it was just fancy tripe for twats who thought it benefited their business matters better than any Apple smartphone.

RIP.

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