Your old BlackBerry phone is about to die

(Pocket-lint) - If you person an old BlackBerry phone moving BlackBerry 10 OS oregon earlier, this is the last time that it volition proceed to bash the things you bought it to do. 

After 4 January 2022, the services required to support wireless connectivity/data services moving reliably volition beryllium switched off.

That means if you're inactive utilizing a BlackBerry moving BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry 7.1 OS (or earlier) oregon person a PlayBook tablet, they volition nary longer enactment properly. 

In its reminder station the institution specifically lists bearer and Wi-Fi connections, which means data, telephone calls, SMS and adjacent 9-1-1 functionality volition beryllium affected. 

It's worthy noting, this doesn't use to immoderate BlackBerry branded telephone moving Android. So you if you're rocking a Priv, KeyOne oregon Key 2, your telephone volition proceed to enactment arsenic it has done. 

While we've seen and adjacent written 'BlackBerry is dead' headlines much than once, this ending of the cardinal services that made a BlackBerry a BlackBerry draws to a adjacent a agelong communicative of demise that started much than 10 years ago. 

It's a communicative of a institution that ne'er rather managed to woody with the situation of modern all-touch smartphones pursuing the motorboat of the archetypal iPhone. 

In the end, its carnal QWERTY keyboards and its fast, reliable (and secure) connection services weren't capable to support it relevant, with adjacent its astir ardent fans opting for thing much modern, and endeavor customers opting for Android and iPhone alternatives. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 4 January 2022.