Few will continue to use a BlackBerry today. The most popular smartphones in companies a decade ago have completely disappeared and even their transition to Android or the licensing of the brand to other companies (TCL first, OnwardMobility later) have done little to relaunch it.
Meanwhile, the Canadian multinational that has long refocused its business to offer companies security solutions and car manufacturers, a GPS navigation platform, has just announced that what was given is over: as of today, their terminals (those with BlackBerry OS) will stop receiving provisioning services, which means that they will gradually lose the ability to join different networks, including the telephone or data network.
This means that if you were among the last romantics who, due to its fantastic keyboard or its ease of use, still trusted an original BlackBerry to manage your email, for example, you should start thinking very seriously about changing terminals … since It won’t take long for you to lose access to key functions of it.
The truth, however, is that the latest BlackBerry OS update dates back to 2013, so the affected devices will soon be 9 years old… if there are any left in operation. On the other hand, the support period for these devices actually ended more than a year ago, so it can be said that the company has more than delivered on its promises.
This does not mean that these terminals stop working at this precise moment. The provisioning information that BlackBerry will stop sending to these terminals is the one that provides details on how the devices should establish connections with different types of network equipment, including WiFi networks.
As a consequence of the foregoing, at some unknown time in the future, network updates performed by service providers will make BlackBerry devices no longer able to connect, or function reliably when making phone calls, sending SMS, or surfing the Internet.
Yes, the BlackBerry World application development center will stop working immediately, as well as BlackBerry Link, the platform that allows information to be synchronized between different devices.
