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Feb 19, 2022 · OnwardMobility is dead, and with it, the 5G BlackBerry. It was just over a month ago that OnwardMobility, the small Austin-based company saddled with the weight of resurrecting the BlackBerry...
- Daniel Bader
- Content Director
Feb 19, 2022 · The delayed 5G BlackBerry phone is dead, OnwardMobility has confirmed on its website.
Aug 19, 2020 · The once dominant smartphone, left in the lurch earlier this year when TCL announced it wasn't planning on making any more handsets on the BlackBerry name, is expecting to return in 2021 with both...
- Philip Michaels
Jan 7, 2022 · While we've still not seen any sneak peaks or images of the phone, the company states it's still planning to bring an "ultra-secure 5G enterprise smartphone" with a keyboard, to market.
- Video Producer
- Blackberry's Awaited 5G Phone Is Dead
- Why Blackberry's 5G Phone Is Dead
- Time to Move on
A 5G BlackBerry smartphone with the company's iconic keyboard was to launch in 2022, but that is not happening. The report on the death of BlackBerry's awaited 5G phone comes just over a month after OnwardMobility, a Texas-based tech company that was developing the new device, said that the brand was not dead. OnwardMobility's update immediately fo...
The key reason why BlackBerry's 5G phone is dead is that BlackBerry canceled OnwardMobility's license to launch phones under their name, according to a report from Android Police. For the uninitiated, BlackBerry officially gave up on making phones, but it has been licensing third-party companies to use its name in the smartphone industry. For insta...
While the BlackBerry brand in the smartphone industry is dead, fans who loved the company's keyboard still have other options that they can use. A good example is the Astro Slide 5G showcased at CES 2022 and Fxtec Pro1 X, another promised device shipping in 2022. Sorry, BlackBerry fans, it's time to move on.
- Senior Author
Mar 9, 2022 · The Blackberry 5G from OnwardMobility isn't coming because the company shut down. But digging deeper, what happened to delay and then cancel the launch of this device?
Feb 11, 2022 · BlackBerry phones will remain dead. In 2020, we reported on OnwardMobility, a startup that licensed the BlackBerry brand for smartphones and planned to release a new QWERTY Android phone.