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[SIZE=6]BlackBerry stops designing its own phones[/SIZE]
By Chris FoxxTechnology reporter
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[li]28 September 2016 [/li][li]Technology[/li][/ul]
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Image captionThe BlackBerry Priv was its final smartphone designed in-house
BlackBerry is to stop designing smartphones in-house after 14 years, the company has announced.

Once a market leader, the company has struggled to keep pace with modern handsets produced by rivals such as Apple and Samsung.

In May, the company’s chief executive, John Chen, said he would know by September whether the hardware business was likely to become profitable.

Now, BlackBerry says it will outsource hardware development to partners.

But the company has not yet confirmed when any further BlackBerry phones will be released.

“BlackBerry can’t keep producing its own phones indefinitely just to serve a small subset of its clients addicted to its home-grown devices,” said Ben Wood of the CCS Insight consultancy.

“BlackBerry had made no secret of the fact that it might shut down its own phone-making business. Pushing it out to a third party is a sensible solution - but any manufacturer making BlackBerry branded devices will ultimately face the same challenges.”

[SIZE=5]‘I said a year’[/SIZE]
Mr Chen has been candid about the future of BlackBerry’s handset business, saying he would consider closing the division if it could not become profitable.

In May, he told Bloomberg that he would know by September whether that was likely.

“The first time I made that statement was September a year ago,” said Mr Chen.

“When people ask me, ‘How long will it take?’… I said a year. So, it’s going to be September this year.”

In October 2015, BlackBerry changed the direction of its handset business by producing its first smartphone running Google’s Android operating system, rather than its own BB10 software.

However, Mr Chen has admitted the device, which featured a slide-out physical keyboard, was too expensive to appeal to a mass market.

The company has since launched a less expensive touchscreen-only Android handset, based on a phone released by Alcatel.
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Its sad end…, my first bb was the pearl 9100 then i bought a bold 9700 i was so addicted to those phones. As long as you had Bis you were good

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Sikuwai penda BB btw. Watu wakizikimbilia nilienda Nokia N73 na Sony Ericsson K750

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N73 ilikuwa kali, jamaa!
Na umenipeleka mbali sana!
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Lakini mimi nilitumia N70 [ATTACH=full]59566[/ATTACH]

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Naona watu wa .sis na .sisx :slight_smile:

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Siku za waptrick na pocketmaniac. Ukikuta .jad ama .jar peke yake unajam kuliko muarabu

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Enyewe nokia walikuwa mambo mbaya. Nilidhani nikishika n72 nimeregress lakini sikufeel hivyo

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http://www.extragsm.com/images/phone/big/Nokia/6820/Nokia-6820-01.jpg
Used Nokia 6820. Floss mode!

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:D:D:D:D:D Kumbe sikuwa peke yangu? I had the Nokia 5800 XM at the time.

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Nilikuwa nimetamani hiyo simu

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Mine was a Curve 83something we called it Barrackberry because Obambla had one too. Some ratchet akaata Iraq ex-army from Roxbury MA led me to buying it. What was I doing kamuaing an ex-army ratchet? Story for another day.

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