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If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Still, with the BlackBerry movie having premiered in May 2023, you might just want a trip down memory lane again, to remember the good times provided by the once-dominant smartphone manufacturer.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Sadly, OnwardMobility shut down, taking with it any plans to launch said phones and join the ranks of the best Android phones on the market. In 2021, OnwardMobility teamed up with the manufacturer, FIH Mobile, and announced plans to release a 5G BlackBerry. In 2020, TCL's license ended only to be picked up immediately after by unknown entity, OnwardMobility.

In 2016, BlackBerry announced that it would no longer be making devices of its own, with TCL picking up the license. Sadly, those days are gone, and while BlackBerry may still have handful of dedicated users, it's now effectively dead as a smartphone maker.

It was yet another unique reason to buy a BlackBerry, appealing to a range of people, not just those in suits. It might be all about WhatsApp now, but BBM had read receipts down donkeys years ago.
