It is not the end for BlackBerry – even though the brand will no more be in partnership with TCL from the end of this month; however, a new company has emerged to take on the function Today, OnwardMobility declared a partnership with BlackBerry and FIH Mobile to manufacture new phones bearing the BB-brand for next year.
They are going to be building a phone with a 5G connectivity and hardware keyboard. As constantly, security will be at the center of the design. “We are thrilled that customers will experience the enterprise and government level security and mobile efficiency as the new BlackBerry 5G smartphone will present,” said John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry.
“With 5G rapidly approaching to market, and the increase of rate it will cause in upgrading mobile devices and setting up productivity-enhancing apps, deploying established and extremely safe products like the BlackBerry 5G devices in government, enterprises, and regulated industries like legal or finance, are task vital,” said analyst Jack Gold, President and Principal Analyst of J. Gold Associates.
This new device mainly produced for governments and companies working with sensitive, valuable data.
The New BlackBerry 5G phones will be available in North America and Europe. The phones will be operating on Android, of course as the Blackberry OS has been dead for some time now.
OnwardMobility is presently found in the US and has been running on security-focused mobile software from the time of its origin in 2008. Present CEO Peter Franklin has in the past worked at Microsoft (Azure) and Zynga (Farmville). The rest of the executive group has great knowledge in the smartphone world and key tech companies as well.
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